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Kerasotes on Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Kerasotes Showplace Theatres, LLC was a movie theatre operator in the United States. Based in Chicago, Kerasotes Showplace Theatres, LLC was the sixth-largest movie-theatre company in North America which had some 957 screens in 95 locations in California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, and ...
George Kerasotes (March 27, 1911 - March 15, 2001) was an American theatre owner and former head of Theatre Owners of America. [1] During his time with Kerasotes Theatres , he helped to bring the operation from three local theaters to 550 Midwestern theatres.
This is a list of movie theater chains across the world. [1] [2] ... Kerasotes Theatres ... In 2014 there were 5,813 movie theaters in China and 299 cinema chains ...
In 1974, Kerasotes Theaters leased the Orpheum from the Great States Theater of Chicago, and in 1978, bought the building. [14] Under Kerasotes management the Orpheum showed first-run films . On November 18, 1982 the Orpheum Theatre closed: due to the rise of malls containing cinemas with multiple screens, the inability to screen more than one ...
At its peak, W. S. Butterfield Theatres operated over 110 theaters across Michigan. [8] The Butterfield circuit continued in operation until the 1980s, when it was bought out by George Kerasotes . Many former Butterfield theaters still operate today across Michigan, from the Mayan-themed State in Bay City, to the opulent Michigan in Ann Arbor ...
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.
W. S. Butterfield Theatres, Inc. was an American operator of vaudeville theaters and later movie theaters in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.Beginning in the early 1900s, "Colonel" Walter Scott Butterfield expanded his business from one vaudeville house in Battle Creek in 1906 to 114 cinemas across Michigan in 1942. [1]
The late 1980s and early 1990s saw the introduction of multiplex theaters across the United States. Kerasotes Theatres began plans to build a multiplex in Franklin. Michael Rembusch decided that his mono-plex could not compete with a multiplex so he built Canary Creek Cinemas in Franklin to out-compete the Kerasotes planned theater.