

It was offered as a donation to the city, but city council at the time turned it down. In 2012, the Princess’ parent company Alliance Entertainment sold the majority of its properties to Regal Cinemas, excluding the smaller Oxford theater. “My kids would ride their bikes to the Princess and watch movies, we’d go as a family, my husband and I went as a date night, we went all the time.” “I thought it was really smart that during the school year they had movies that students would like, but in the summer it was a lot of family movies,” Mullenix said. Elizabeth Mullenix, dean of the College of Creative Arts at Miami and long-time Oxford resident, said having a movie theater in town meant a lot as a parent.
