Skyline Theatre
606 Main Street,
Canon City,
CO
81212
606 Main Street,
Canon City,
CO
81212
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Previously operated by: Commonwealth Theaters Corp., Fox Inter-Mountain Theaters Inc., United Artists Theater Circuit Inc.
Functions: Movies (First Run)
Previous Names: Jones Theatre
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
719.285.8780
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News About This Theater
- Mar 9, 2013 — Skyline in danger of closing
Opened in 1917 as the Jones Theatre, with 999 seats. It was just a couple of buildings along Main Street from the Canon City Opera House (later Sarah Theatre).
It was re-named Skyline Theatre around 1935. The seating capacity had then been reduced to 748. This small town theatre was still a single screen, playing first run movies until it closed in September 2017. New owners took over and renovations began, but it didn’t reopen until July 28, 2023.
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Here’s the Skyline in 1989 – a Colorado outpost of Gotham City!
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This theater is now operating as a second-run, discount theater: View link
A photo from July 2010:
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The Skyline now operates as a first-run house in the digital age. Driving through Canon City today, they are playing X-Men: Apocalypse.
The status of the Skyline should be Closed. It closed in September 2017 and its projection equipment was moved to the 4 Mile Cinema. Story here.https://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/2017/09/19/skyline-theater-closes-its-doors/amp/
Motion Picture Herald, Dec. 11, 1948: “Spontaneous combustion caused explosion on coalbin in Skyline, Canon City, Colo. Crowd marched out, show resumed in 20 minutes.”
The Cañon City Daily Record wrote on Aug. 9, 2019 that Chuck and Marianne James planned to reopen the Skyline in the spring of 2020. “The Jameses were the third owners of the Skyline … (when they) first owned it from 1993 to 2004.” They bought it this time in May 2019 from the Nothdurft family, which owns the local 4 Mile Cinema. “The Jameses agreed not to run it as a commercial operation for a year.”
Once operated by Commonwealth Theatres.
This theater reopened July 28, 2023:
Canon City, CO: Skyline Theatre Reopening July 28, 2023 [Jul 27, 2023]
United Artists later took over operations of the Skyline Theatre after Commonwealth’s formation of the joint venture with UA. UA also operated the nearby Royal Gorge Cinema and Sunset Drive-In at the time.
During its early days, Fox Inter-Mountain Theaters was one of its operators.