Trends · data through September 2026

Movie Theaters in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 125 stores from 96 movie theater chains in North Carolina. Golden Ticket Cinemas grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Regal and Cinemark.

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
96
Tracked stores
125
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked movie theater 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. Golden Ticket Cinemas and Regal sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Golden Ticket Cinemas - +18.0%
2 Regal - +11.9%
3 Cinemark - +6.8%
4 AMC Theatres - +1.6%
5 RCE Theaters - -30.1%
  • AMC Theatres
  • Regal
  • Cinemark
  • Cinemark Raleigh Grande
  • Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
  • Golden Ticket Cinemas
  • AMC DINE-IN
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

125 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 29 of the 125 stores (23%); 87 of the 96 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are movie theaters, the same share as across the United States.

  • AMC Theatres (11)
  • Regal (8)
  • Cinemark (4)
  • Cinemark Raleigh Grande (1)
  • Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (1)
  • Golden Ticket Cinemas (3)
  • AMC DINE-IN (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 AMC Theatres 11
  • 2 Regal 8
  • 3 Cinemark 4
  • 4 Golden Ticket Cinemas 3
  • 5 UEC Theatres 3
  • 6 RCE Theaters 3
  • 7 Hometown Cinemas 2
  • 8 Paragon Theaters 2
  • 9 The Grand Theatre 2
  • 10 EVO Entertainment 1
  • 11 Accenture IMAX Dome Theatre 1
  • 12 Midland Theatres 1
  • 13 Carolina Cinemas Sandhills 10 1
  • 14 Henn Theatre 1
  • 15 The Pioneer Theater 1
  • 16 Earle Theatre 1
  • 17 Stone Theatres 1
  • 18 Smithfield 10 Theatre 1
  • 19 Tryon Theatre 1
  • 20 Parkhill Cinema 1
  • 21 Studio C 1
  • 22 Sunrise Theater 1
  • 23 RED Cinemas 1
  • 24 B&B Theatres 1
  • 25 Smoky Mountain Cinema 1
  • 26 Chelsea Theater 1
  • 27 Taylor Theater 1
  • 28 Catamount Cinemas 1
  • 29 Marketplace Cinemas 1
  • 30 Mission Valley Cinemas 1
  • 31 Howell Theatre 1
  • 32 Grail Moviehouse 1
  • 33 East Park Cinema 1
  • 34 Creekside Cinema 10 1
  • 35 State Cinema 1
  • 36 Countryside Cinema 1
  • 37 Town Cinema 1
  • 38 Carolina Civic Center 1
  • 39 Sunset Theatre 1
  • 40 AmStar 14 1
  • 41 Sunset Drive-In 1
  • 42 Co-Ed Cinema 1
  • 43 Cameo Art House Theatre 1
  • 44 Southeast Cinemas 1
  • 45 Golden Ticket Cinema 1
  • 46 Andrews Twin Cinema 1
  • 47 MCCS Camp Lejeune Base Theater 1
  • 48 Varsity Theatre 1
  • 49 Flat Rock Cinema 1
  • 50 Liberty Theatre 1

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