OKC cinema pub to close after six-month run; talks underway to reopen with brewery

Banquet Cinema, which introduced the mix of dining and a bar with a two-screen theater to downtown, is showing its last film on Saturday.

Owners Hunter Wheat and Lacey Pritchard opened Banquet Cinema in February in a decades-old former Pontiac and Chrysler showroom and garage at 800 NW 4.

The corner is within walking distance of where dozens of modern homes have been built in Midtown and the West Village mixed-use development along Film Row.

But much of the surrounding area set for development is still in planning, including 700 West, a mix of 138 apartments and 4,000 square feet of retail set to be built immediately east of Banquet Cinema.