Trends · data through July 2026

Movie Theaters in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Iceflower tracks 54 stores from 38 movie theaters chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Regal grew fastest over the last year, ahead of AMC Theatres and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.

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: 38
Tracked stores: 54
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. Regal and AMC Theatres sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	R Regal	-	+1.1%
2	A AMC Theatres	-	-8.6%
3	A Alamo Drafthouse Cinema	-	-14.0%

Ft Belvoir AMC
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
AMC Theatres
Regal
Cinemark
LOOK Dine-in Cinema
CMX Cinemas
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

54 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

Ft Belvoir AMC (1)
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (4)
AMC Theatres (6)
Regal (8)
Cinemark (2)
LOOK Dine-in Cinema (1)
CMX Cinemas (1)
Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

1 R Regal 8
2 A AMC Theatres 6
3 A Alamo Drafthouse Cinema 4
4 C Cinemark 2
5 B Bethesda Row Cinema 1
6 S Starlight Cinema 1
7 R Royal Cinemas 1
8 A AMC Potomac Mills 18 1
9 S Suns Cinema 1
10 T The Avalon Theatre 1
11 R Regal Fox Cinemas 1
12 A Angelika Film Center & Café 1
13 C Cinepolis 1
14 A Angelika Pop-up at Union Market 1
15 A AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center 1
16 L Landmark's E Street Cinema 1
17 L Lincoln Theatre 1
18 T The Miracle Theatre 1
19 I IPIC Theaters 1
20 R Rave Motion Pictures 1
21 X Xscape Theatres Brandywine 14 1
22 F Ft Belvoir AMC 1
23 L LOOK Dine-in Cinema 1
24 C CMX Cinemas 1
25 C CMX CineBistro Tysons Galleria 1
26 R Regal Kingstowne 1
27 A AMC Georgetown 1
28 A AMC Montgomery 16 1
29 G Greenbelt Cinema 1
30 A AMC Loudoun Station 11 1
31 A AMC Shirlington 7 1
32 A AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 1
33 A AMC Wheaton Mall 9 1
34 C Cinema Arts Theatre 1
35 A Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse 1
36 S Spotsylvania Mall 4 1
37 R Regal Hyattsville Royale 1
38 U University Mall Theatres 1

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