Cinépolis USA is one of the newest movie theater chains in the U.S., but it’s already growing like the gelatinous life form in “The Blob.” The luxury theater company has been buying up movie houses and building new theaters at an aggressive pace since establishing its first location in San Diego in 2011.
Owned by Mexico-based cinema giant Cinépolis, the fourth-largest theater chain in world and largest in Latin America, the company added its sixteenth U.S. theater earlier this month by acquiring Bow Tie Cinemas’s downtown Manhattan location. Cinépolis USA’s parent company was founded in 1971 and has theaters in 13 countries. CEO Alejandro Ramírez Magaña’s U.S. expansion plan includes adding five theaters per year during the next five years, seven of which will be built from the ground up in places like Connecticut, Ohio, Texas and Virginia.
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Owned by Mexico-based cinema giant Cinépolis, the fourth-largest theater chain in world and largest in Latin America, the company added its sixteenth U.S. theater earlier this month by acquiring Bow Tie Cinemas’s downtown Manhattan location. Cinépolis USA’s parent company was founded in 1971 and has theaters in 13 countries. CEO Alejandro Ramírez Magaña’s U.S. expansion plan includes adding five theaters per year during the next five years, seven of which will be built from the ground up in places like Connecticut, Ohio, Texas and Virginia.
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- 7/22/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Glowing reports from the Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia (Ficm) inspired me to fly down to Michoacan in late October for the 13th edition. I was not disappointed. After launching as a shorts festival, gradually director Daniela Michel and her co-founder, Cinepolis CEO Alejandro Ramírez Magaña, have added a Mexican Oscar-qualifying shorts as well as a feature competition section to a wide-ranging international program, as well as a works-in-progress showcase for international buyers, complete with cash awards. Arguably, this festival has done much to bolster Mexican filmmaking by nurturing talent, supporting talented shorts directors through their early features. Slowly but surely Morelia has grown into a world-class festival, drawing a warm community of cinephiles who love to socialize, including a large French contingent led by fest veteran Barbet Schroeder (Cannes entry "Amnesia") and Cannes director general Thierry Frémaux, who...
- 11/9/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Fred Dust, Philipp Engelhorn, Caterina Fake, Gigi Pritzker and Alejandro Ramírez Magaña have joined the Institute’s board of trustees.
Institute brass said the new arrivals brought “an invaluable depth of experience in marketing and creative design, social innovation, technology and film production and exhibition” to the Institute’s governance.
Dust is a partner at international design firm Ideo, while Engelhorn founded and currently directs the film foundation and not-for-profit production company Cinereach and Fake is an entrepreneur and social media specialist who co-founded Flickr.
Pritzker (pictured) is a film and stage producer and CEO of OddLot Entertainment, while Magaña is CEO of the Latin American exhibitor Cinépolis.
Institute brass said the new arrivals brought “an invaluable depth of experience in marketing and creative design, social innovation, technology and film production and exhibition” to the Institute’s governance.
Dust is a partner at international design firm Ideo, while Engelhorn founded and currently directs the film foundation and not-for-profit production company Cinereach and Fake is an entrepreneur and social media specialist who co-founded Flickr.
Pritzker (pictured) is a film and stage producer and CEO of OddLot Entertainment, while Magaña is CEO of the Latin American exhibitor Cinépolis.
- 6/18/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Sundance Institute has announced five new members are joining the Board of Trustees: Fred Dust, Philipp Engelhorn, Caterina Fake, Gigi Pritzker and Alejandro Ramírez Magaña. Under the guidance of president and founder Robert Redford and in close collaboration with executive director Keri Putnam and board chair Pat Mitchell, the new trustees add to a board that already includes high profile names such as Kenneth Cole and Ava DuVernay. Read More: Attention, Filmmakers: You're Free! Sundance Institute's Documentary Program Abolishes Deadlines "As Sundance Institute's programs continue to respond to the evolving needs of independent artists, we are grateful to these five new trustees for joining us," said Mitchell in a statement. "Together, the board is poised to identify new and strengthened ways to champion independent storytellers." Check below for more information on the new members courtesy of the Sundance Institute. Fred Dust A partner...
- 6/17/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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