Carmike CinemasCarmike Cinemas, Inc. was an American motion picture exhibitor headquartered in Columbus, Georgia. As of March 2016, the company had 276 theaters with 2,954 screens in 41 states, and was the fourth largest movie theater chain in the United States. The company billed itself as "America's Hometown Theatre" and Carmike theaters were largely positioned in rural or suburban areas with populations under 200,000.
Wanda GroupAlternative Chinese nameSimplified Chinese大连万达Traditional Chinese大連萬達Wanda Group (Chinese: 万达集团; pinyin: Wàndá Jítuán), or the Dalian Wanda Group (大连万达), is a Chinese multinationalconglomerate founded in Dalian, Liaoning, and headquartered in Beijing. The conglomerate's core businesses are a private property developer and an entertainment company, effectively acting as the owner of Wanda Cinemas and the Hoyts Group line of cinema chains.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinemaThe COVID-19 pandemic had a negative effect on certain films in the early 2020s, mirroring its impacts across all arts sectors. Across the world, and to varying degrees, cinemas and movie theaters were closed, festivals were cancelled or postponed, and film releases were moved to future dates or delayed indefinitely.
Movie theaterA movie theater (American English) or cinema (Commonwealth English), also known as a movie house, cinema hall, picture house, picture theater, the movies, the pictures, the big screen (colloquialism), or simply theater, is a business that contains auditoriums for viewing films and occasionally a series premiere, special episode or a series finale of a popular television series for public entertainment.
Odeon CinemasOdeon Cinemas Limited, trading asOdeon (stylised in all caps), is a cinema brand name operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway and Greece, which along with UCI Cinemas, Cinesa and Nordic Cinema Group is part of the Odeon Cinemas Group subsidiary of AMC Theatres. It uses the famous name of the Odeon cinema circuit first introduced in Great Britain in 1930.
UCI CinemasUCI Cinemas (United Cinemas International) is a brand of cinema, currently operating in Germany, Italy, Portugal and Brazil, which has been owned since 2004 by Odeon Cinemas Group, whose owner is now AMC Theatres. The Brazilian branch of the cinema chain is owned by Cia Brasileira de Cinemas, a joint venture between Cine Araújo and Grupo Vila Rica.
Leawood, KansasLeawood () is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States, and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 33,902.
Kansas City, MissouriCity in Missouri, United StatesCity in Missouri, United StatesKansas City, abbreviated KC or KCMO, is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by both population and area. It is located on the Missouri River at its confluence with the Kansas River, within Jackson, Clay, Platte and Cass counties. It is the 37th-most populous city in the United States and sixth-most populous city in the Midwest, with a population of 508,090 at the 2020 census.
Short squeezeIn the stock market, a short squeeze is a rapid increase in the price of a stock owing primarily to an excess of short selling of a stock rather than underlying fundamentals. A short squeeze occurs when demand has increased relative to supply because short sellers have to buy stock to cover their short positions.
New York Stock ExchangeThe New York Stock Exchange (NYSEnicknamed "the Big Board") is an American stock exchange headquartered at the New York Stock Exchange Building in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalization, exceeding in January 2026. The NYSE is owned by Intercontinental Exchange, an American holding company that it also lists (ticker symbol ICE).
Share classIn finance, a share class or share classification are different types of shares in company share capital that have different levels of voting rights. For example, a company might create two classes of shares class A share and a class B share where the class A shares have fewer rights than class B shareholders. This may be done to maintain control of a company by a group of shareholders or to make a company more difficult to take over.
Silver Lake (investment firm)Silver Lake Technology Management, L.L.C., is an American global private equity firm focused on technology and technology-enabled investments. Silver Lake is headquartered in New York City and Menlo Park, California. In June 2024, Silver Lake was ranked 12th in Private Equity International's PEI 300 ranking of the largest private equity firms in the world.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.