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Soon the company opened vaudeville houses and movie palaces. Loew's theaters were found in cities throughout the United States, but primarily in East Coast and Midwest states. To provide films for his theaters, Loew founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1924, by merging the earlier firms Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer ...
The Kentucky Theatre is a historic cinema in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, United States, that first opened in October 1922. The building is currently owned by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government and leased to a non-profit that shows films and hosts concerts and events.
Free Blockbuster is an initiative that promotes neighborhood movie exchanges. The initiative was started in 2019 by film enthusiasts in Los Angeles, including Brian Morrison, a former Blockbuster employee who opened the first site outside of a grocery store in Los Feliz, Los Angeles .
Cinema 16 was a New York City–based film society founded by Amos Vogel. From 1947 to 1963, he and his wife, Marcia, ran the most successful and influential membership film society in North American history, at its height boasting 7000 members.
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Regal Cinemas (also Regal Entertainment Group) is an American movie theater chain that operates the second-largest theater circuit in the United States, with 5,720 screens in 420 theaters as of December 31, 2024. [3] Founded on August 10, 1989, it is owned by the British company Cineworld and headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee. [4]
Founded in 1920, AMC has the largest share of the U.S. theater market, ahead of Regal Cinemas and Cinemark Theatres. After acquiring Odeon Cinemas, UCI Cinemas, and Carmike Cinemas in 2016, it became the largest movie theater chain in the world. [3] It has 2,807 screens in 353 European theaters and 7,755 screens in 593 American theaters. [2] [4]