Trends · data through September 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 70 stores from 49 movie theater 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
49
Tracked stores
70
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 +18.9%
2 AMC Theatres ▲1 +12.3%
3 Alamo Drafthouse Cinema ▼2 -21.1%
  • AMC Theatres
  • Regal
  • Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
  • Cinemark
  • Regal Kingstowne
  • Regal Gallery Place
  • AMC Georgetown
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

70 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 26 of the 70 stores (37%); 45 of the 49 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are movie theaters, against 2% across District of Columbia.

  • AMC Theatres (9)
  • Regal (10)
  • Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (4)
  • Cinemark (2)
  • Regal Kingstowne (1)
  • Regal Gallery Place (1)
  • AMC Georgetown (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Regal 10
  • 2 AMC Theatres 9
  • 3 Alamo Drafthouse Cinema 4
  • 4 Cinemark 2
  • 5 Regal Kingstowne 1
  • 6 The Avalon Theatre 1
  • 7 Spotsylvania Mall 4 1
  • 8 Paragon Theaters 1
  • 9 Angelika Film Center & Café 1
  • 10 AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center 1
  • 11 Angelika Pop-up at Union Market 1
  • 12 Regal Fox Cinemas 1
  • 13 The Miracle Theatre 1
  • 14 Colesville Center 1
  • 15 Warehouse Cinemas 1
  • 16 Regal Culpeper 1
  • 17 IPIC Theaters 1
  • 18 Virginia Cinema 1
  • 19 Old Town Alexandria 1
  • 20 Marlow 6 1
  • 21 Look Dine-In Cinemas Tysons at the Boro 1
  • 22 AMC St Charles Town Center 9 1
  • 23 Cinepolis 1
  • 24 Landmark's E Street Cinema 1
  • 25 Rave Motion Pictures 1
  • 26 ShowPlace ICON Theatre 1
  • 27 Xscape Theatres Brandywine 14 1
  • 28 Regal Gallery Place 1
  • 29 AMC Georgetown 1
  • 30 CMX CineBistro Tysons Galleria 1
  • 31 AMC Montgomery 16 1
  • 32 AMC Loudoun Station 11 1
  • 33 AMC Worldgate 9 1
  • 34 Greenbelt Cinema 1
  • 35 AMC Shirlington 7 1
  • 36 Regal Ballston Quarter 1
  • 37 AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 1
  • 38 CMX Cinemas 1
  • 39 AMC Wheaton Mall 9 1
  • 40 Cinema Arts Theatre 1
  • 41 Bethesda Row Cinema 1
  • 42 Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse 1
  • 43 Regal Hyattsville Royale 1
  • 44 LOOK Dine-in Cinema 1
  • 45 Cobb Village Theatre 1
  • 46 University Mall Theatres 1
  • 47 AMC Potomac Mills 18 1
  • 48 Suns Cinema 1
  • 49 Royal Cinemas 1

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