Bright Star Cinemas

Opened by Starplex Cinemas on November 14, 2003. Starplex founder J.C. Mitchell retired from the company shortly after a merger with Interstate Theatres and primary financial backing changing to J.C.’s brother, Cinemark founder Lee Roy Mitchell, in 2005. Planning to launch a new chain of small town cinemas, J.C. Mitchell and two former Starplex executives purchased the Sulphur Springs theatre around 2008. Rechristened the Trans Texas Theatre, the new venture never grew beyond the Sulphur Springs location and was eventually sold to Bright Star Cinemas in September 2019. Remaining true to its' interrelated ownership history, Bright Star contracts management of the theatre with Showbiz Cinemas (owned by Lee Roy Mitchell’s son/J.C. Mitchell’s nephew Kevin Mitchell).