October 2007

Premier Cinemas is a regional chain with locations in Texas, Alabama and Florida, with a total of more than one hundred screens.

MJR Theatres is a regional chain currently operating over 100 screens in 8 locations in Michigan.

A regional chain currently operating 70 screens (including one IMAX) at five locations in Utah.

Dallas, Texas based dsgn associates provided design services for the theatre chain Rave Motion Pictures from the time of the exhibitor’s founding in 1999. dsgn’s contribution includes everything from the architecture and interior design of the theatres to the company’s logo and even its stationary. 

Founded in 1923, Metropolitan was for many years the dominant movie exhibitor in downtown Los Angeles, operating most of the neighborhood’s vintage movie palaces. With the decline of movie attendance in central Los Angeles, the company refocused its operations, primarily to the Santa Barbara area, though it continues to operate several cinemas in other parts of California. In recent years the company has also expended its operations into Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and British Columbia. 

Springfield, Ohio is the home of Chakeres Theatres, which operates 13 theatres in its home state and two more in Kentucky. Seven of its cinemas are drive-ins.

Boston-based Beacon Architectural Associates is a diversified firm which has, since 1991, been involved in more than 70 cinema projects for theatre chain National Amusements, Inc.

(Click on their “portfolio” and then “Retail” links to reach the “Showcase and Multiplex Cinemas” link.)

A regional architecture and civil engineering firm located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Paradigm has designed multiplex theatres for several exhibitors in the Great Lakes area. In addition, the firm planned the restoration of the historic Wealthy Theatre in Grand Rapids.

STK is a regional architecture,planning, and interior design firm with offices in the Southern California communities of San Jacinto and Temecula. Their diverse portfolio includes a number of multiplex cinema projects, among which are several designed for AMC.

A planning, urban design and architecture firm with offices in Westlake Village, California, BBA has designed and planned more than 100 cinema projects in the United States. Their work has included projects for the Edwards, Mann, Galaxy and Brenden chains. BBA was the firm that planned the expansion and partial restoration of the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

Headquartered in Kansas City, TK Architects specializes in theatres and other entertainment facilities, and has designed cinemas across the United States as well as overseas. Chains for which they have designed multiplexes include Edwards, Regal, Cinemark, and Warren. The firm also worked on the restoration of the historic Thomas Lamb-designed Midland Theatre in Kansas City.

Asheville North Carolina commercial photographer Bill McMannis specializes in architectural photography, and his website features a number of photos of multiplexes designed by Kansas City architectural firm TK Architects.

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Brenden Theatres opened its first theatre in Pittsburg, California in 1990. By 2007, the company had grown to a chain with six locations in Northern California and Southern Nevada, and a total of 86 screens, including one IMAX theatre in its Palms Las Vegas multiplex. An additional Nevada location is to open soon.

A pioneer of the increasingly popular hybrid restaurant/first-run movie theatre format, Studio Movie Grill operates five multi-screen locations in Texas, with three more scheduled to open in 2008.

With theatres in five eastern seaboard states from Pennsylvania to Florida, Maryland-based R/C Theatres operates in total more than 80 screens.

Founded in 1953 with a single drive-in, Nebraska’s Douglas Theatre Company began opening hardtop theatres in 1967. It now operates a total of 109 screens distributed among its 9 multiplexes in Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska.

Based in Williamsville, New York, Dipson Theatres operates 11 theatres with a total of 40 screens, mostly in small towns, in New York State and Pennsylvania.

SunStar is a regional chain operating six theatres in Florida and one in upstate New York, with a total of 54 screens.

This company is a division of CRR Builders, located in Overland Park, Kansas. Cinemaworld designs and builds cinemas as turnkey projects, and has built theatres for several exhibitors, and in many parts of the United States from Rhode Island to California.

New owner putting life back into an old theatre in Victoria, BC, Canada.

Excellent theatre website: http://www.roxyvictoria.com/

Movie theatre concession stand equipment and supplies. We have the world’s largest selection of commercial popcorn machines, hot dog cookers and concession equipment anywhere. We also have crowd control and box office intercoms too.