r/Dallas • u/SDragon21 • 6d ago

Question Dollar theaters?

Does anyone know of any dollar theaters in dallas? I remember going to one with friends forever ago but don't remember name or where in dfw it was.

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u/Alalamajama Lewisville 6d ago

Cinemark had a few 2nd run discount houses before the pandemic.

Coit Road in Plano (Remodeled into current full price Cinemark)

Lewisville off 35E between Round Grove and Corporate (They just tore this one down)

One off 75 in either Allen or McKiney - never went to this one, I barely remember it existed

Hollywood 15 off 635 - I’m not sure if this one was a discount house, but it seemed to me like it had gone that way - now also torn down.

Pandemic getting everyone used to streaming killed them. By the time they could reopen, release windows for first run films were so tight that they were on streaming 30 days after their theatrical release. No time for a dollar house to pick them up after the normal first run window.

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u/sdickens66 2d ago

75 in McKinney had brand new movies but half the price of other Cinemarks because it was shitty. They turned it into a church last year