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The company owns 71 theaters and 689 screens throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, and Latin America under several brands, such as Showcase Cinemas, Multiplex Cinemas, and Cinema de Lux. It is the controlling shareholder of Paramount Global. National Amusements was founded by Michael Redstone, and later passed to his son Sumner ...
Michael "Mickey" Redstone (born Max Rothstein; [2] April 11, 1902 – April 4, 1987) was an American entrepreneur and founder of the Northeast Theater Corporation, now National Amusements, Inc. [3] Biography
Sumner Murray Redstone (né Rothstein; May 27, 1923 – August 11, 2020) was an American billionaire businessman and media magnate.He was the founder and chairman of the second incarnation of Viacom, chairman of CBS Corporation (both companies merged in 2019, a year before Redstone's death), and the majority owner and chairman of the National Amusements theater chain.
CBS Corporation was an American multinational media company with interests primarily in commercial broadcasting, publishing, and television production.It was split from Viacom on December 31, 2005, alongside an entirely new Viacom; both CBS Corporation and the second Viacom were controlled by National Amusements, a theater company owned by billionaire Sumner Redstone.
The Rhino was the first gay theatre to receive funding from the National Endowment for the Arts [17] and is the "world’s oldest and longest-running queer theatre" [18] and was the Redstone's 2nd oldest and largest tenant [19] producing "an unparalleled amount of original work" [20] shown in The Rhino's two theaters.
Shari Ellin Redstone (born April 14, 1954) is an American heiress, businesswoman, and media executive. [5] She is the non-executive chairwoman of Paramount Global (formerly known as ViacomCBS) and chairwoman, president and CEO of National Amusements, and a former vice chair of CBS Corporation [6] and Viacom. [7]
In 1928, Poli sold his theatre holdings to William Fox who then renamed it the Loew's Poli. After another change of ownership, Sumner Redstone and Redstone Theaters purchased the building in 1967 opening it as Showcase Cinemas and continued operations as a multiscreen movie house until 1998 when Redstone's National Amusements closed the theatre ...
The controlling shareholder of both companies was National Amusements, a theater company headed by businessman Sumner Redstone. The split was structured so that the original Viacom changed its name to CBS Corporation and spun out its cable and film interests as a new Viacom.