Top 2674 Movie Theater Chains in the US (2026)

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. Phoenix Theatres and Malco Theatres sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Phoenix Theatres	▲2	+18.5%
2	Malco Theatres	▲3	+14.6%
3	Rialto Cinemas	-	+13.0%
4	Smitty's Cinema	▲2	+12.3%
5	B&B Theatres	▲1	+12.1%
6	UEC Theatres	▲2	+12.0%
7	Classic Cinemas	▲2	+11.9%
8	AmStar Cinemas	▲3	+11.7%
9	Touchstar Cinemas	▲2	+11.2%
10	Picture Show	▲3	+10.3%
11	Showplace Cinemas	▲1	+9.5%
12	Megaplex Theatres	▲1	+5.9%
13	Galaxy Theatres	-	+5.5%
14	Film Alley	▲1	+4.2%
15	Cinemark 14	▲2	+4.0%

Cinemark
AMC Theatres
Regal
Marcus Theatres
Harkins Theatres
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
Megaplex Theatres
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

4,118 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 740 of the 4,118 stores (18%); 2,455 of the 2,674 tracked chains have a single store here.