{"id":409947,"date":"2026-08-18T16:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409947\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T16:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:48:13","slug":"fort-worth-coyote-drive-in-to-close-on-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409947\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Coyote Drive-In to close on Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The drive-in movie theater will darken its screen on more than a decade of outdoor movie history on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 7, the theater announced in a press release sent Aug. 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we opened Coyote Drive-In, we hoped to create more than just a place to watch movies; we wanted to create a place where families and friends could come together and make lasting memories,\u201d Glenn Solomon, a managing partner of the theater, said in the release. \u201cWe have been incredibly fortunate to be part of the Fort Worth community and the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area, and we are deeply grateful to the hundreds of thousands of guests who chose to spend their evenings with us over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The closure comes as part of the Trinity River Vision project, according to the theater. The\u00a0Panther Island<\/a> expansion, which is set to include two new canals and a three-acre park, will occupy the space formerly rented by Coyote Drive-In.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The theater\u2019s lease with the Tarrant Regional Water District included an agreement to end the lease when construction started, the theater said. The drive-in closed temporarily during COVID-19. This time the theater\u2019s tone is more final, although the press release did not share plans other than inviting fans for the final screening.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The last movie will screen Sept. 7, according to the drive-in. Fans of the theater expressed their sorrow for its closure on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cSay it ain’t so Coyote Drive-In? I love taking my kids there,\u201d one commenter wrote on Coyote Drive-In\u2019s Facebook page. \u201cIt is the absolute best theater experience in Fort Worth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The drive-in movie theater will darken its screen on more than a decade of outdoor movie history on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-409947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}