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Filmhouse Cinemas (West Africa) – with 13 cinemas as of 2022, it is the largest cinema chain in West Africa in terms of location numbers. It has 65 screens in locations such as Lagos, Ibadan, Lekki where they have the first IMAX theatre in West Africa, Calabar, Akure, Port Harcourt, Kano and Asaba. The company was established in 2012 and it ...
State Cinema in North Hobart in Tasmania, Australia was acquired by Reading Cinemas in November 2019. [2]In the late 1980s, through his holding company the Craig Corporation, Los Angeles–based lawyer James Cotter acquired the Reading Company, a former American railroad company that held a portfolio of real estate properties after it sold its railroad assets and rolling stock in 1976.
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (doing business as AMC Theatres, originally an abbreviation for American Multi-Cinema; often referred to simply as AMC and known in some countries as AMC Cinemas or AMC Multi-Cinemas) is an American movie theater chain founded in Kansas City, Missouri, and now headquartered in Leawood, Kansas.
The IMAX theater in Natick, Massachusetts, opened in August 2002. It features a screen that measures 76 by 55 feet (23 by 17 m), 12,000 watt sound, 279 Tempur-Pedic seats, and digitally remastered Hollywood films. After the success of the theater in Natick, the company opened their second theater in October 2004 in Reading, Massachusetts, with ...
The Hoyts Group of companies in Australia and New Zealand includes Hoyts Cinemas, a cinema chain, and Val Morgan, which sells advertising on cinema screens and digital billboards. The company was established by dentist Arthur Russell in Melbourne, Victoria in 1908, showing films in a hired hall. After expansion into other states and several ...
Regal Cinemas (also Regal Entertainment Group) is an American movie theater chain founded on August 10, 1989 and owned by the British company Cineworld, headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, [3] and operates the second-largest theater circuit in the United States, with 6,853 screens in 511 theaters as of December 31, 2021. [4]
Fox Theatre in Redwood City, California. Fox Theatres was a large chain of movie theaters in the United States dating from the 1920s either built by Fox Film studio owner William Fox, or subsequently merged in 1929 by Fox with the West Coast Theatres chain, to form the Fox West Coast Theatres chain. [2] Fox West Coast went into bankruptcy and ...
The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century. The dominant style of American cinema is classical Hollywood cinema, which developed from 1910 to 1962 and is still ...