Everything you ever wanted to know about the Melville Theatre

The Melville Theatre is located in Saskatchewan's smallest city. (Melville has a population of just under 5000 people. To see more web pages about Melville businesses, tourism, and community events, click here).

It is the only movie theatre in Melville. It opened on February 10, 1995. The first show played was DUMB AND DUMBER starring Jim Carrey. The "biggest" show (by ticket sales) to date was TITANIC, which was played for a total of three weeks over two separate bookings, February 20-March 5 and April 24-30, 1998. The Melville Theatre is located at 223 Third Avenue West in Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada. Before it was remodelled to be a movie theatre, the building was a paint and wallpaper store which carried on business as City Paint. Melville had no theatre at all for a period of approximately 15 years before the Melville Theatre set up here, and the building was vacant for about three years between the time that City Paint closed its doors and when Frank Cox purchased it in October 1994 and started renovating.

There is one screen, 153 seats and two wheelchair spaces. Yes, we are wheelchair accessible! There are generally one or two shows per night, seven nights per week, and Saturday and Sunday matinees when appropriate movies are available. There are also occasional midnight shows. A free Christmas children's matinee is provided each December, sponsored by the Melville Chamber of Commerce. The Theatre is closed only two days per year, Christmas eve and Christmas day, December 24 and 25. Open all other days.

The Melville Theatre was a standard film theatre using 35mm film until March 31, 2011. The last movie played on 35mm film was JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER. The theatre then closed for a period of one week for the installation of new digital cinema equipment and a new surround sound system, and re-opened on April 8, 2011 as the first digital cinema in the Parkland region. The first digital 3D movie played at the Melville Theatre was MARS NEEDS MOMS.

The Melville Theatre is an independent theatre. It is not part of any chain, and is owned and operated by Frank Cox.