{"id":151660,"date":"2025-09-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=151660"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:19:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:19:30","slug":"malco-theatres-summer-family-film-series-gives-back-to-the-commnunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/malco-theatres-summer-family-film-series-gives-back-to-the-commnunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Malco Theatres Summer Family Film Series Gives Back to the Commnunity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Nine-Week Event Benefitted Various Children\u2019s Hospitals Across the Mid-South<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Memphis-based <strong>Malco Theatres<\/strong> is pleased to announce that the\u00a0<strong>2025 Midweek at the Malco<\/strong>\u00a0generated over $35,000 for local children\u2019s hospitals across the Mid-South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The weekly summer program kicked off June 4, featuring a different family-favorite film through July 30 at theatres in <strong>Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky, Missouri<\/strong>, and <strong>Louisiana<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0Each participating location also had a special auditorium dedicated to Sensory Cinema, with lights up and sound down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ever-popular annual event has been part of the area\u2019s summer calendar for over 30 years.\u00a0\u00a0This year\u2019s beneficiaries included <strong>Le Bonheur Children\u2019s Hospital<\/strong> (<strong>Memphis<\/strong>, TN), <strong>Arkansas Children\u2019s Hospital<\/strong> (<strong>Little Rock<\/strong>,\u00a0AR), <strong>Blair E. Batson Children\u2019s Hospital<\/strong> (<strong>Jackson<\/strong>, MS), <strong>Norton Children\u2019s Hospital<\/strong> (<strong>Louisville<\/strong>, KY), <strong>Monroe Carell Jr. Children\u2019s Hospital at Vanderbilt<\/strong> (<strong>Nashville<\/strong>, TN), <strong>Children\u2019s Hospital of New Orleans<\/strong>, and <strong>ALSAC\/St. Jude<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2026 program is already in the planning stages, with the schedule to be released in the spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Memphis, Tennessee-based Malco Theatres is a fourth-generation family-owned and operated business that reached its 100<sup>th<\/sup>anniversary in 2015. Malco Theatres operates over 350 screens at 34 locations across the Mid-South, along with bowling and family entertainment centers in Louisiana and Mississippi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine-Week Event Benefitted Various Children\u2019s Hospitals Across the Mid-South Memphis-based Malco Theatres is pleased to announce that the\u00a02025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":136095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7803],"tags":[32555,2369,32550,32551,32554,366,2476,20780,3030,2299,1724,32549,14472,468,5,5143,32553,1988,32552,2676],"class_list":["post-151660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charity-events","tag-alsac-st-jude","tag-arkansas","tag-arkansas-childrens-hospital-2","tag-blair-e-batson-childrens-hospital","tag-childrens-hospital-of-new-orleans","tag-jackson","tag-kentucky","tag-le-bonheur-childrens-hospital-3","tag-little-rock","tag-louisiana","tag-louisville","tag-malco-theatre","tag-malco-theatres","tag-memphis","tag-mississippi","tag-missouri","tag-monroe-carell-jr-childrens-hospital-at-vanderbilt","tag-nashville","tag-norton-childrens-hospital-2","tag-tennessee"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Malco.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151663,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151660\/revisions\/151663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}