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A long-running Columbia discount movie theater has gone dark.
The Spotlight cinemas at 527 St. Andrews Road have closed, according to a note on the cinema’s website.
“Spotlight Cinemas St. Andrews is closed,” the note read on Friday. “Please visit our Capital 8 location. We would like to thank the many customers over the past 8.5 years for your patronage. We will miss you all.”
When a reporter from The State briefly visited the St. John’s Theatre, he was a member of the St. John’s Theatre. Andrews Road on Thursday afternoon, the roadside movie theater marquee simply read “closed. “
The theater at 527 St. Andrews Road was initially opened four decades ago, according to the movie theater history site Cinema Treasures. Spotlight Cinemas was the most recent of its owners.
The St. Andrews Theatre was a second-edition cinema, meaning it showed older films at discounted prices. More recently, tickets for all screenings were $3 each. On the weekend of November 17, the last weekend in which the theater’s screening times were indexed on its Facebook page: “Barbie,” “The Blue Beetle” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem,” among others, were screened in the theater.
Spotlight Cinemas also operates the Capital 8 Theatre at 201 Columbia Mall Blvd. , near Two Notch Road. This premiere theater remains open and on the weekend of December 8 will screen recently released hits such as Disney’s “Renaissance: A Film By Beyonce,” “Trolls Band Together” and “Wish,” among other offerings.
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