Trends · data through September 2026

Movie Theaters in Texas

Iceflower tracks 348 stores from 183 movie theater chains in Texas. Regal grew fastest over the last year, ahead of AMC Theatres and Cinemark 14.

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
183
Tracked stores
348
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. Regal and AMC Theatres sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Regal ▲1 +13.1%
2 AMC Theatres ▲1 +8.9%
3 Cinemark 14 ▲1 +5.7%
4 Cinemark - +5.5%
5 Santikos Entertainment ▲1 +1.1%
6 Cinergy Entertainment - +0.5%
7 Star Cinema Grill - -2.2%
8 Film Alley ▼1 -3.1%
9 Studio Movie Grill - -5.7%
10 ShowBiz Cinemas ▼1 -16.6%
11 EVO Entertainment - -17.1%
12 Movie Tavern - -22.0%
13 Alamo Drafthouse Cinema ▼2 -47.8%
14 Look Cinemas - -93.8%
  • Cinemark
  • Star Cinema Grill
  • Santikos Entertainment
  • AMC Theatres
  • Flix Brewhouse
  • Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
  • Studio Movie Grill
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

348 tracked store locations in Texas. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 116 of the 348 stores (33%); 155 of the 183 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are movie theaters, against 3% across the United States.

  • Cinemark (56)
  • Star Cinema Grill (8)
  • Santikos Entertainment (7)
  • AMC Theatres (16)
  • Flix Brewhouse (5)
  • Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (19)
  • Studio Movie Grill (13)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Cinemark 56
  • 2 Alamo Drafthouse Cinema 19
  • 3 AMC Theatres 16
  • 4 Studio Movie Grill 13
  • 5 Regal 12
  • 6 Star Cinema Grill 8
  • 7 Santikos Entertainment 7
  • 8 EVO Entertainment 5
  • 9 ShowBiz Cinemas 5
  • 10 Cinemark 14 5
  • 11 Flix Brewhouse 5
  • 12 B&B Theatres 4
  • 13 Cinergy Entertainment 4
  • 14 Film Alley 3
  • 15 Premiere Cinema & IMAX 3
  • 16 Look Cinemas 3
  • 17 Movie Tavern 3
  • 18 Movies Inc 2
  • 19 Stars & Stripes Drive-In Theatre 2
  • 20 Texas Theatre 2
  • 21 Hometown Cinemas 2
  • 22 Rooftop Cinema Club 2
  • 23 Oak Grove 2
  • 24 Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas 2
  • 25 Cinemark Pharr Town Center and XD 2
  • 26 Studio C 2
  • 27 Rave Cinemas 2
  • 28 Cinemark 17 and XD 2
  • 29 Cinemark Cinema 6 1
  • 30 The Grand Theatre 1
  • 31 Rio 6 Cinema 1
  • 32 Santikos Theatres 1
  • 33 Violet Crown Dallas 1
  • 34 Hernandez 1
  • 35 LOOK Dine-In Cinemas 1
  • 36 Rainbow Theater 1
  • 37 Starplex Cinemas 1
  • 38 Gloesis Group 1
  • 39 Eisenhauer Market 1
  • 40 Movie Reel 1
  • 41 Valley's Drive-In Theater 1
  • 42 Moonstruck Drive-In 1
  • 43 AMC The Parks At Arlington 18 1
  • 44 Brazos Drive In 1
  • 45 Waxahachie 12 1
  • 46 Cineamerica 1
  • 47 IPIC 1
  • 48 Schulman Dogwood 6 1
  • 49 Angelika Film Center and Cafe 1
  • 50 AFS Cinema 1

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