
The Regal Cinemas 14 in Short Pump, Virginia Then on February 19, 1992, TCI sold the theatre chain in a leveraged buyout led by Merrill Lynch Capital Partners Inc and UA management. was majority owner on June 8, 1991, it purchased the remainder of the company. By the end of the 1980s, John Malone's Tele-Communications, Inc. UA was an early pioneer in cable television, and aggressively bought smaller regional systems. Thereafter, it was relocated to Englewood, CO. The UA Theatres main office was in San Francisco until 1988 when it was sold to TCI. In 1988 UA bought the Philadelphia-based Sameric chain of about 30 locations in PA, NJ, and DE. These theatres were the Balboa, Alexandria, Coliseum, Vogue, Metro, the Harding, and Coronet, which was opened in 1949. About this time they also acquired the San Francisco Theatres owned by Samuel H Levin. Their company up to this time was called Golden State Theatres. United Artists Theatres was purchased in the late 1940s by the Naify Brothers, who owned theatres in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over time, the chain became separate from the studio and by the 1970s was part of a larger company, United Artists Communications. 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. Griffith, but legally has always been separate from it.
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United Artists Theatres (established in 1924) has its roots in the movie studio of the same name founded by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D. The chain's famous "Regal Roller Coaster" policy trailer, which was shown before every movie shown from the early 1990s to the fall of 2004, was revived in 2010 and the current version was made in 2015, which was animated by The Tombras Group. It became the namesake for the theater chain in which it would be merged into with the Edwards and United Artists chains. īy 2001, Regal was overextended, and went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 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. Regal Cinemas embarked on a large-scale expansion throughout the decade, acquiring smaller chains as well as building new, more modern multiplexes. Many of these contained a "premium" café (later called Cafe Del Moro) and a more upscale look than typical theaters of the time. Regal began to grow at a rapid pace, opening larger cinemas in suburban areas. Its first location was the Searstown Cinema in Titusville, Florida. Regal Cinemas was established in 1989 in Knoxville, Tennessee, with Mike Campbell as CEO. History 1989–2002: Three separate chains Ī Regal Cinemas (with a built-in IMAX theater) in New Rochelle, New York, a suburb of New York City On September 7, 2022, Cineworld filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 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. Regal has acquired several smaller chains since this merger these, however, have been rebranded as Regal Cinemas. Most new cinema construction uses the Regal Cinemas name.

These chains retain their exterior signage, but most indoor branding (popcorn bags, policy trailers) uses the Regal Entertainment Group name and logo. The three main theatre brands operated by Regal Entertainment Group are Regal Cinemas, Edwards Theatres, and United Artists Theatres. A division of Cineworld, Regal operates the second-largest theater circuit in the United States, with 6,853 screens in 511 theaters as of December 31, 2021.

Regal Cinemas (also Regal Entertainment Group) is an American movie theater chain headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee.
