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A multiplex is a movie theater complex with multiple screens or auditoriums within a single complex. They are usually housed in a specially designed building. Sometimes, an existing venue undergoes a renovation where the existing auditoriums are split into smaller ones, or more auditoriums are added in an extension or expansion of the building.
Sep 12, 2021 · Years later, in 1987, the Luxury “ten-plex” theater in Portland, Oregon won two design awards for its architecture. Though terms like “12-plex” and “14-plex” and “mega-plex” were occasionally used, the growth in screen numbers finally made “multiplex” ubiquitous in the 1990s. Durwood’s vision had changed everything.
- Gary D. Rhodes
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May 26, 2020 · Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images. AMC's Parkway Twin theater in Kansas City, Missouri, the first multiplex theater, opened in 1963 in the Ward Parkway shopping center. It had two screens ...
Jun 27, 2009 · Perhaps, the most well publicized multi screen pioneer was AMC’s Stan Durwood. Often referred to as the “father of the multiplex”, Durwood opened his first multi screen theatre in 1963, via Kansas City’s Parkway Twin; company folklore stating that the idea came to him a year earlier, while standing in the empty lobby of the Roxy theatre (realizing that multiple auditoriums would ...
Jul 27, 2019 · Abstract. Hanson examines the origins of the multiplex in the USA and considers the importance of the shopping mall, and the suburb as the focus for this new kind of cinema, purpose built and multiscreen. Taking as its starting point the aftermath of the Paramount Decrees in 1948 and the relinquishing by the major studios of their cinemas, Chap ...
- Stuart Hanson
- SHanson@dmu.ac.uk
- 2019
Jul 27, 2019 · The multiplex is the most economical way for the exhibitor to operate, and it offers the most diversity of choice for the patron.” Footnote 120 At the start of the 1990s, there were, broadly speaking, two prevailing views about the state of exhibition in the USA. The first was that the market was saturated or at best “mature”; whilst the ...
Aug 9, 2021 · 1:08. The History of AMC Entertainment: The World's First Multiplex (Video) AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. ( AMC) got its start as American Multi-Cinema Theatres. It was founded in 1920 by ...
