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45-494: In 2015, Cinemex began to expand into the United States under the banner CMX . It initially focused on cinemas with premium amenities; in 2017, this division expanded via its acquisition of Cobb Theatres , making it the eighth-largest U.S. cinema chain. Cinemex started with a college business plan. Adolfo Fastlicht , Miguel Angel Dávila Guzmán and Matthew Heyman speculated that Mexico was ready for larger movie theaters. When

90-562: A 7.1 sound system, a Dolby Atmos sound system or an Auro 11.1 sound system with 273 loudspeaker components including eight 21 inch subwoofers . There are reclining leather seats with headrests. Both digital 2D and RealD 3D films can be screened. As of January 2016, there are 87 operating RPX locations. In June 2011, after posting a loss for the first quarter, Regal began downsizing its theater workforce by removing managers from projection and replacing them with lower paid floor staff. This move allowed Regal to lay off part-time managers across

135-509: A district court in the state of Texas following complaints by the Houston -based cinema chain iPic Entertainment, which found that Regal had colluded with 20th Century Fox, Sony, and Universal by threatening boycotts of their releases if they did not refuse clearance of their films to smaller cinema chain locations (such as iPic). In 2017, Regal purchased Wichita , Kansas –based Warren Theatres . In November 2017, Regal began merger talks with

180-404: A former joint venture between Regal Entertainment Group and Terrell Braly. These locations feature a full bar and made-from-scratch restaurant menu, allowing patrons to order before/during a movie and have the food delivered directly to their seats. As of August 2024, there are four Cinebarre locations operating within the United States. In January 2016, Regal was issued a temporary injunction by

225-400: A large number of theaters still remains in all three markets. On May 17, 2009, Regal signed a deal with Sony Corporation to equip all of its theaters with Sony 4K digital projection over the next three to five years. In April 2010, Regal launched Regal Premium Experience (RPX), an upgraded theater format. Each RPX theater features a 60-foot screen, dual 30,000 lumen digital projectors,

270-684: A lawsuit in April alleging that CMX breached its contract by refusing to close the deal by March 26 because of the COVID-19 pandemic . CMX filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 25 due to the pandemic; CMX shuttered 10 underperforming theatres and was initially unable to renegotiate contracts with creditors such as landlords and movie studios. Following a six-month negotiation with creditors, CMX emerged from bankruptcy in December; landlords agreed to modified revenue-share leases where they will receive part of

315-683: A new lease agreement with the galleria to continue operating the theater. In April 2023, it was announced that Regal had acquired the lease to the former ArcLight theater at The Paseo in Pasadena, California . The location reopened as part of the Regal chain in June of that year. In August 2022, the Wall Street Journal reported that Cineworld would file for bankruptcy after struggling to rebuild attendance and incurring debts of more than $ 4.8 billion amid

360-459: A new movie ticket subscription service known as Regal Unlimited. This service allows users to see an unlimited number of movies and receive a 10% discount on concessions, although there is an additional surcharge for premium movie formats. The service is modeled upon a similar program employed by Cineworld. On January 7, 2020, in alignment with existing agreements with Cineworld, it was announced that PepsiCo would replace The Coca-Cola Company as

405-500: The COVID-19 pandemic , becoming the first theater chain in the United States to close all its theater locations as a result of the pandemic. Regal Cinemas started reopening most of its theaters on August 21, 2020, with a few delayed until August 28 and others closed indefinitely due to local restrictions or having already been planned to close prior to the pandemic. On October 5, 2020, Cineworld announced it would close most Regal, and all Cineworld, and Picturehouse Cinemas locations in

450-408: The movie studio of the same name founded by Douglas Fairbanks , Mary Pickford , Charlie Chaplin , and D. W. Griffith , but legally has always been separate from it. Joseph Schenck was brought in to become UA's president in 1924; as part of the deal, Schenck entered into a partnership with Chaplin and Pickford to buy and construct theatres using UA's name. Over time, the chain became separate from

495-969: The "last straw"). Mooky argued that the studios were holding off on new releases until New York cinemas reopen (accusing Governor Andrew Cuomo of being inflexible, despite having allowed other forms of indoor businesses to resume operations), and that the company only planned to reopen its cinemas once it is confident there is a "clear" and "solid" lineup of new releases. The closures initially excluded seven recently opened locations in California, and 11 New York state locations (after it began to allow cinemas outside of New York City to reopen on October 23 at 25% capacity if specific health metrics are met). However, on November 9, Regal announced that these locations would close until further notice effective November 12. On March 23, 2021, Cineworld announced that in light of theaters in New York City and Los Angeles being given

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540-667: The Harding, and Coronet, which was opened in 1949. In 1988 UA bought the Philadelphia-based Sameric chain of about 30 locations in PA, NJ, and DE. The UA Theatres main office was in San Francisco until 1988 when it was sold to TCI. Thereafter, it was relocated to Englewood, CO. UA was an early pioneer in cable television , and aggressively bought smaller regional systems. By the end of the 1980s, John Malone's Tele-Communications, Inc.

585-602: The Mid-Atlantic states of Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia and North and South Carolina overlapped in some places with Regal's. As of a condition of approval of the merger, the United States Department of Justice required that Regal divest itself of several theaters in areas where it would have a monopoly. Regal agreed to sell off four theaters in the Asheville , Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina markets, but

630-715: The Regal Entertainment Group name and logo. Most new cinema construction uses the Regal Cinemas name. Regal has acquired several smaller chains since this merger; these, however, have been rebranded as Regal Cinemas. On December 5, 2017, it was announced that the British theater chain Cineworld would acquire Regal for $ 3.6 billion, making it the second largest global cinema exhibitor behind AMC . On September 7, 2022, Cineworld filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy . Regal Cinemas

675-779: The Thunderbird Drive-In in Atlanta (the South's largest and most modern drive-in theatre) in 1963, the United States' first four-plex theatre in 1971, Cinema City 8 at Birmingham's Roebuck Shopping Center (the largest eight-plex theatre in the US) in 1978, and Sawgrass 18 (promoted as the largest theatre east of the Rocky Mountains) in 1991. Cobb operated 27 theatres by 1965. The following year, Cobb purchased eight theatres in Birmingham, Alabama and moved

720-610: The UK theater chain Cineworld . On December 5, it was officially announced that Cineworld would buy Regal for $ 3.6 billion, forming the world's second-largest cinema group. Regal adopted a new logo in October 2018, featuring an emblem resembling a camera aperture and crown. In recognition of the company's Knoxville heritage, Regal adopted orange as a corporate color in reference to the Tennessee Volunteers . In July 2019, Regal announced

765-504: The US, UK, and Ireland indefinitely, beginning October 8. CEO Mooky Greidinger specifically cited that the continued reluctance of New York to allow cinemas to open was the main factor, as well as the lack of tentpole Hollywood films due to the high cost of operating a cinema without new releases (describing the delay of the James Bond film No Time to Die from November to April 2021 as being

810-722: The United States with premium dine-in cinemas, including a location at American Dream in New Jersey. In 2016, it opened its first U.S. location under the banner CMX: The VIP Cinema Experience , at Brickell City Centre in Miami. In October 2017, Cinemex announced its intent to acquire Cobb Theatres via the CMX Cinemas subsidiary, which made it the eighth-largest U.S. cinema chain with 30 locations. On March 16, 2020, CMX agreed to acquire 10 theatres and one under development from Star Cinema Grill. However, its Star Cinema Grill owner Omar Khan filed

855-647: The Warren name. In 2007, REG opened its first all-digital projection theatre in Henderson, Nevada (a suburb of Las Vegas ), the Fiesta Henderson Stadium 12. Regal sold Fandango to leading cable company Comcast Corporation in 2007. Regal Entertainment Group completed its acquisition of Consolidated Theatres on May 1, 2008. In the transaction, Regal acquired Consolidated's 28 theaters and 400 screens for $ 210 million. Consolidated's concentrations of theatres in

900-566: The acquisition on July 31. Robert M. Cobb decided to re-enter the cinema industry by forming Cobb Theatres III in 2000. Cobb opened the Dolphin 19 theatre in Miami, Florida on May 25, 2001, attracting 1.4 million visitors. Cobb grew to 11 theatres with 166 screens by 2006. In 2008, Cobb introduced CinéBistro, an elevated premium dinner-and-a-movie concept, in Miami and Tampa. Cobb expanded into Colorado, Virginia and Georgia by 2011, growing to 21 theatres with 253 screens. In October 2017, Cobb Theatres

945-655: The company's offices to Birmingham. Cobb Theatres expanded into South Florida by purchasing General Cinema 's theatres in West Central Florida in 1992 and Wometco Theatres in 1994 (forming Cobb Theatres II following the Wometco acquisition), bringing Cobb's screen total to 315. Robert M. Cobb succeeded Rowland as the company's CEO on December 1, 1995. On June 11, 1997, it was announced that Regal Cinemas would acquire Cobb Theatres, which had 643 screens at 67 theatres, for $ 200 million plus $ 100 million in debt; Regal completed

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990-474: The company's screen count. The expansion plan gave Edwards a crushing debt load, and in 2000 it filed for bankruptcy. When all three chains went into bankruptcy, investor Philip Anschutz bought substantial investments in all three companies, becoming majority owner. In 2002, Anschutz consolidated his three theatre holdings under a new parent company, Regal Entertainment Group. Regal's Mike Campbell and UA's Kurt Hall were named co-CEOs, with Campbell overseeing

1035-569: The country and forcibly demote many full-time managers to part-time. As theaters converted to all digital automated screens, Regal also removed projectionists altogether. This focus on "cost control" helped the company post better than expected profits for the 3rd quarter of that year. In March 2014, AEG and Regal announced an agreement to add 4DX —a 4D film format—to its location at L.A. Live . As of 2018, it operated six 4DX screens nationwide, with plans to expand to at least 79. In December 2015, Regal took over managing operations of Cinebarre,

1080-447: The decade, acquiring smaller chains as well as building new, more modern multiplexes. Its largest acquisition during this original period was the 1998 combination of it and Act III Theatres , although it had acquired some smaller chains as well in the mid-1990s, including the original Cobb Theatres , RC Theatres, and Cleveland -based National Theatre Corp. By 2001, Regal was overextended, and went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It became

1125-402: The exclusive supplier of non-alcoholic beverages to all Regal cinemas, notably breaking a monopoly held by Coke among the top three cinema chains in the United States, which also includes AMC Theatres and Cinemark Theatres . Pepsi also became the "exclusive sponsor" of Regal's 4DX screens. On March 16, 2020, Regal Cinemas closed all 543 of its theaters in the United States indefinitely due to

1170-555: The go-ahead to reopen theaters earlier in the month, they would begin reopening select Regal locations on April 2, in time for the release of Godzilla vs. Kong , with the company aiming to have most Regal locations reopened by April 16, in time for the release of Mortal Kombat , which was pushed back a week to April 23. The wide reopening was pushed back to May 7, with all but 13 open by May 28. Cineworld reached agreements with Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to commit to theatrical windows. On June 19, 2021, Regal Cinemas acquired

1215-577: The largest venture capital start-up in Mexican history. Cinemex's first theater was Cinemex Altavista and it opened on August 2, 1995; the second was Unicornio Land opened on September 23, 1996, soon followed by Cinemex Santa Fe, the company's flagship, in October and Cinemex Manacar in January 1997. That same year saw the opening of Cinemex Los Reyes and Cinemex Loreto. In June 2002, Oaktree Capital Management acquired Cinemex for $ 250 million. Two years later, it

1260-555: The lease of the former Arclight Cinemas at the Sherman Oaks Galleria in Los Angeles, with plans for a $ 10 million remodel that would include premium large format, 4DX , IMAX , and ScreenX screens. In January 2023, however, it was announced that the theater would close on February 15 unless the lease was renegotiated, but it continued to operate after the date had passed. In May 2023, Regal announced that they had reached

1305-604: The majority of which were located in Florida, with others in Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, North Carolina, and Virginia. In 1921, Jefferson A. Richards opened his family's first movie theatre in Fayette, Alabama. Lucille Richards Cobb purchased the theatre from Jefferson in 1934. In 1947, Rowland C. Cobb bought Lucille's two theatres and started building indoor and drive-in theatres throughout northern Alabama. Notable theatres opened by Cobb included

1350-519: The namesake for the theater chain in which it would be merged into with the Edwards and United Artists chains. The chain's famous "Regal Roller Coaster" policy trailer, animated by SmithGroup Communications , which was shown before every movie shown from the early 1990s to the spring of 2005, was revived in 2010 and the current version was made in 2015, which was animated by The Tombras Group. United Artists Theatres (established in 1924) has its roots in

1395-460: The new company before it went public. Since the 2002 formation of REG, it has acquired several smaller chains. It took over the US assets of Hoyts Cinemas in March 2003 and announced the acquisition of San Ramon, California –based Signature Theatres in April 2004. Unlike the merger with UA and Edwards, Regal has rebranded all of these theatres as Regal Cinemas. In April 2005, Eastern Federal, which

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1440-423: The new company using the Regal Cinemas name. UA eventually dropped out of the merger, but the merger between Regal and Act III went through. As Regal consolidated the three chains, CineMedia began work on a new digital distribution system to provide a new "preshow," replacing the slides and film advertisements with digital content. NBC and Turner Broadcasting were among the first to sign on to provide content for

1485-576: The pandemic. Cineworld confirmed that Regal Cinemas would remain in operation while Cineworld would evaluate their financial strategies. On September 7, 2022, Cineworld announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy . Cineworld plans to emerge from Chapter 11 in the first quarter of 2023, and planned to pursue "a real estate optimisation strategy", including the closure or sale of theaters and other discussions with landlords on its cinema lease terms with Regal. On September 28, 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported that Canadian exhibitor Cineplex

1530-520: The regulations were lifted with the new Cinematography Law passed in Mexico in 1992, Adolfo Fastlicht and Miguel Angel Dávila decided that Mexico City offered a market for a high-end chain of theaters. In 1994, they secured $ 21.5m in equity financing from JPMorgan Partners and a partnership of the Bluhm family of Chicago, CMex Investors.and some Mexican former politicians The deal is generally acknowledged to be

1575-677: The studio and by the 1970s was part of a larger company, United Artists Communications. United Artists Theatres was purchased in the late 1940s by the Naify Brothers , who owned theatres in the San Francisco Bay Area . Their company up to this time was called Golden State Theatres. About this time they also acquired the San Francisco Theatres owned by Samuel H Levin. These theatres were the Balboa, Alexandria, Coliseum, Vogue, Metro,

1620-672: The theatre operations from Regal Cinemas' headquarters in Knoxville, and Kurt Hall heading up a new subsidiary, Regal CineMedia , from the UA offices in Centennial, Colorado . The Edwards corporate offices were closed. Regal and United Artists had attempted to merge before in 1998, using a similar method. Investment firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst announced plans to acquire Regal, then merge it with UA (which would be bought by Hicks, Muse) and Act III (controlled by KKR), with

1665-541: The theatres' profits. Cobb Theatres Cobb Theatres was an American cinema chain based in Birmingham , Alabama . The company was established in 1921, in Fayette, Alabama , expanding through the South starting in the late 1940s, and buying out General Cinema 's West Central Florida theatres and Wometco Theatres in the 1990s before being bought by Regal Cinemas in 1997 and revived in 2001. Cobb operated 25 locations,

1710-521: The venture, and the preshow, dubbed "The 2wenty," debuted in February 2003; this pre-film preshow is now known as "Regal FirstLook." The new distribution system was also meant to be used for special events such as concerts. Regal CineMedia merged with AMC Theatres ' National Cinema Network in 2005 to form National CineMedia . In effect, this was a takeover of NCN by Regal CineMedia, as Kurt Hall stayed on as CEO and AMC adopted Regal's preshow. Regal owned 50% of

1755-726: Was a theatre company in the Southeastern United States , was acquired by Regal. In February 2013, Regal agreed to purchase Hollywood Theaters, a nationwide chain of 46 theaters that operated from Portland, Oregon. The sale was closed on April 1, 2013. In May 2017 Regal purchased the $ 200 million company Warren Theaters based in Wichita , Kansas . The sale included all Warren Theater locations in Wichita KS as well as those in Moore and Broken Arrow OK. The theaters will continue operation under

1800-814: Was acquired by Mexican cinema chain Cinemex ; its locations were brought under its U.S. banner CMX. Regal Cinemas 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 , and operates the second-largest theater circuit in the United States, with 6,853 screens in 511 theaters as of December 31, 2021. The three main theater brands operated by Regal Entertainment Group are Regal Cinemas , Edwards Theatres , and United Artists Theatres . These chains retain their exterior signage, but most indoor branding (popcorn bags, policy trailers) uses

1845-619: Was approved by regulators in November. In August 2013, Cinemex reached a 10-year agreement to exclusively use RealD equipment at all of its cinemas. In 2015, Cinemex and competitor Cinépolis were both fined by the Instituto Nacional Electoral for defying an order to cease screening political advertising from the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico . The party was also fined. In 2015, Cinemex announced plans to expand into

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1890-529: Was established in 1989 in Knoxville, Tennessee, with Mike Campbell as CEO. Its first location was the Searstown Cinema in Titusville, Florida. Regal began to grow at a rapid pace, opening larger cinemas in suburban areas. Many of these contained a "premium" café (later called Cafe Del Moro) and a more upscale look than typical theaters of the time. Regal Cinemas embarked on a large-scale expansion throughout

1935-492: Was exploring the possibility of merging with Regal; Cineworld had attempted to acquire Cineplex in 2020, but was forced to pay US$ 1 billion in damages for breach of contract after backing out of the deal. Cineworld was denied an appeal by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice , which had ruled in favor of Cineplex in the associated legal dispute. In May 2023, Cineworld said that its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy

1980-774: Was majority owner; on June 8, 1991, it purchased the remainder of the company. Then on February 19, 1992, TCI sold the theatre chain in a leveraged buyout led by Merrill Lynch Capital Partners Inc and UA management. Edwards Theatres was a family-owned chain in California , started in 1930 by William James Edwards Jr. It became one of California's best-known and most popular theater chains, and by Edwards' death in 1997, operated about 90 locations with 560 screens. Edwards Theatres had its headquarters in Newport Beach , California . His son, W. James Edwards III, became president and announced an ambitious expansion plan that would nearly double

2025-523: Was sold to a partnership of The Carlyle Group , Bain Capital and Spectrum. Cinemex was acquired by MMCinemas , the second-largest movie theater operator in the country, from AMC Entertainment for $ 315 million in 2008. In 2013, Cinemex began to offer MX4D screens at selected locations. In February 2013, Cinemex announced its intent to acquire the Mexican operations of U.S. cinema chain Cinemark . The sale

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