New owners take over the Oliver Theatre this week, and the show will go on at the historic facility.
Lyle Miller and Kandise Ife, a couple who moved from Maple Ridge to Oliver in early 2017, will be handed the keys on Thursday.
They will be the fourth owners of the theatre that opened in 1947. For the past 42 years, it has been owned by David and Christine Lesmeister.
"We're hoping we're the next 42 years. We've got a daughter that's eight years old, maybe one day she'll take it over."
Miller and Ife most recently owned a grocery store in downtown Vancouver, but buying a movie theatre came "totally out of the blue," Miller said.
Castanet reported the theatre was up for sale in mid-January, and Miller said he and Ife first started negotiating a sale about two weeks earlier. He said after the news came out, the theatre owners received 50-60 phone calls from concerned people in the community.
"It hit really hard... It's good that people are interested and think 'don't let it go away' or 'don't change anything,'" Miller said.
He added they are going to try and take the theatre "to the next level," but without taking away the nostalgia and heritage of the building.
"We're going to add to the nostalgia I think with some of the stuff that you can't see in the building... We'd like to get that out so people can see it."
Miller also spoke highly of the Lesmeisters, the outgoing owners, who he said built the theatre to what it is.
"We finally sat down and met about two weeks ago, and I said to both of them 'you guys know you have free movies for life, right?'" he said.
"We've got people coming from Omak, Rock Creek, just all over the place. It's fantastic to see what they've built."