MOULTRIE — Coming soon to a site near you.

Plans are in the works to build a six-screen, stadium-seating movie theater behind Hampton Inn off Veterans Parkway. Georgia Theatre Company, which owns 277 screens in 29 locations, is purchasing four acres from Moultrie tractor company owner Willard Lasseter to build a cinema that will cost in excess of $1 million, company Chairman Bill Stembler said Wednesday.

“The appointments will be equal to anything in Georgia, basically,” Stembler said. “The interior of the auditoriums will be very much like our 16-screen stadium in Valdosta. It’ll just have 10 less screens.”

The cinema experience will be enhanced with Dolby digital stereo sound and high back seats outfitted with tempurpedic cushions and retractable armrests, he said.

The decision has little to do with the recent marriage of U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss’ son, Bo, to Stembler’s daughter, Bess, he said, but instead it is the realization that Moultrie is due.

Moultrie has a Wal-Mart and recently has attracted a Lowe’s and a Home Depot as well as new restaurants.

“Applebee’s is right there, which is important to me — a sit-down, nighttime restaurant. It is just at the size/population that will justify an investment of this sort. We thought about it for many years, and now the time seems right,” he said.

The twin theater in Sunset Shopping Center, also owned by Georgia Theatre Company was the third theater the company built. In 1977, Stembler converted part of a WT Grant department store. The large auditorium was a garden center, he said, while the small auditorium was an automotive shop.

The Moultrie twin will close when the new one opens, he said. Georgia Theatre Company will break ground on the bypass this fall and should open in May — in time for the summer blockbuster season, he said. The new theater is a little smaller than the company builds typically. In fact, Stembler said, he has yet to come up with a design.

At the same time, Stembler also intends to upgrade the Thomasville theater, which by the time improvements come around, will be the last older movie house to be converted to stadium seating, he said.