Gulf Coast Cinema 5
2800 Highway 90,
Gautier,
MS
39553
2800 Highway 90,
Gautier,
MS
39553
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Previously operated by: United Artists Theater Circuit Inc., Village Theatres
Previous Names: Singing River Cinema 5-9, Ritz Theatre
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News About This Theater
- Jun 24, 2010 — Ritz Theatre in Gautier, MS becomes Gulf Coast Cinema 5
Inside Singing River Mall in Gautier, Mississippi.
Formerly owned by United Artists, the Singing River Cinema 5-9 was opened on November 4, 1988. It ran as a first-run theatre most of its life. Taken over by Village Theatres, Cinema 5-9 was damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and was abandoned for a while. It reopened around 2006 as the Ritz Theatre when it was run by a former employee of the original Pascagoula Ritz Theatre. It played mainly family friendly first run movies. In 2010 the theatre was purchased by a new owner and it returned to the Cinema 5 name. They played first run movies of any genre, with discount prices on a Tuesday. The Cinema 5 was still open in 2005. It, along with whole mall (including the outdoor theatre, Cinema 4) apart from one store was demolished in the summer of 2013.
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I have noticed that every time Tyler Perry comes out with a movie. This theater waits almost a week or two later to show it and takes it out of their theater TOO early. Are you all racists?
Announced in 1987, UA opened this theater as the UA Singing River 5-9 Theatres on November 4, 1988 with 804 seats. It was a five-plex inside the Mall with UA continuing to operate the exterior quadplex which was renamed from the UA Singing River 4 Theatres to the UA Singing River 1-4 Theatres.
Regal Theatres and UA merged in 1999. UA moved on from both on April 30, 2003 with the 1-4 closing permanently. The five-screen interior operation was taken on by three different independent operators closing for a period after Katrina storm damage and then continuing until the Mall’s closure in 2013 as the Gulf Coast Cinema 5 offering “mugs and movies.” The entire Singing River’s swan song was its 2014 demolition.