Trends · data through July 2026

Movie Theaters in the United States

Iceflower tracks 2,700 stores from 1,615 movie theaters chains in the United States. Celebration Cinema grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Phoenix Theatres and Santikos Entertainment.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
1,615
Tracked stores
2,700
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked movie theaters chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Celebration Cinema and Phoenix Theatres sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Celebration Cinema logo Celebration Cinema ▲2 +19.5%
2 P Phoenix Theatres logo Phoenix Theatres ▲3 +18.8%
3 S Santikos Entertainment logo Santikos Entertainment ▲3 +18.5%
4 G Golden Ticket Cinemas logo Golden Ticket Cinemas ▲4 +17.7%
5 S ShowBiz Cinemas logo ShowBiz Cinemas ▲3 +17.1%
6 T Touchstar Cinemas logo Touchstar Cinemas ▲5 +16.7%
7 A AmStar Cinemas logo AmStar Cinemas ▲5 +15.9%
8 C Cinemark logo Cinemark - +13.8%
9 T The Lot logo The Lot ▲3 +12.8%
10 M Malco Theatres logo Malco Theatres ▲2 +11.0%
11 R Reel Theatre logo Reel Theatre ▲2 +6.4%
12 G Galaxy Theatres logo Galaxy Theatres ▲2 +5.1%
13 C Consolidated Theatres logo Consolidated Theatres ▲4 +4.9%
14 L Look Cinemas logo Look Cinemas ▲3 +4.2%
15 C Cinema Cafe logo Cinema Cafe - +4.1%
  • Cinemark
  • AMC Theatres
  • Regal
  • Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
  • Ft Belvoir AMC
  • Megaplex Theatres
  • Cinema Cafe
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

2,700 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Cinemark (212)
  • AMC Theatres (230)
  • Regal (152)
  • Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (37)
  • Ft Belvoir AMC (1)
  • Megaplex Theatres (16)
  • Cinema Cafe (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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