Cinco Cinema IV

216 Eglin Parkway NE,
Mary Esther,
Fort Walton Beach, FL 32547

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50sSNIPES
50sSNIPES on May 13, 2024 at 7:53 am

Corrections to fix: The Cinco Cinema III actually opened on March 27, 1975 with “Young Frankenstein” in Screen 1, “The Towering Inferno” in Screen 2, and “Freebie And The Bean” in Screen 3. The theater was already in operation on October 3, 1975.

  • The previous name also needs an update. It was known as Cinco Cinema III until a fourth screen was added in the early-1980s when it became known as Cinco Cinema IV.
50sSNIPES
50sSNIPES on May 12, 2024 at 1:57 pm

Grand opening ad posted.

50sSNIPES
50sSNIPES on May 12, 2024 at 1:51 pm

With the exception of its closing, the entire history is completely wrong. Here’s the real story.

Fort Walton Beach’s first multiplex indoor theater, known as the “Cinco Cinema III”, opened its doors by Gulf State Theatres on March 27, 1975 with “Young Frankenstein” in Screen 1, “The Towering Inferno” in Screen 2, and “Freebie And The Bean” in Screen 3. It was later taken over by Ogden-Perry Theatres by the end of the decade, and a fourth screen was added in the early-1980s (renaming it Cinco Cinema IV).

The only correct information is its closing, which the theater itself closed in December 1999 and became a church in 2000. With the best of my luck, I cannot find who operated the Cinco Cinema after Ogden-Perry.

  • NOTE: It was never known as both Santa Rosa Cinema 3 or Cinco Cinema II. Judging by the information I looked up, it was only known as both Cinco Cinema III and Cinco Cinema IV.

  • ALSO: I accidentally added a duplicate page on this theater.

yamamotomark
yamamotomark on January 15, 2023 at 9:28 pm

Cinco Cinema closed in December 1999 as a 4-screen theater, it first became Grace Tabernacle in 2000.