Indeed, an unscientific sampling of raceway customers showed that many were there in the limbo between dinner and a movie (there is a multi-screen theater across Broadway).

His son John Santikos eventually took over the company and continued to create various movie theaters, including indoor multi-screen theaters and local drive-ins.

But others say that the growth of multi-screen theaters will make it possible for more special-audience films to find a showplace.

Commencing in 1996, KNCC used up scale shopping centers as prime locations for multi-screen theaters and initiated a plan to renovate older theaters in an effort to enhance its corporate image.

Admission, at $4, $3 for elderly people and children under 12, is about half that of the multi-screen theaters, and refreshments often cost only a third as much as those of the megaplexes.

There are many cinemas in Istiklal Caddesi, and a multi-screen theatre at Çemberlita" in the Old City, which show mainstream movies.

Later converted to a multi-screen theater, it closed in the early 1990s when the owner, K/B Theaters, went out of business.

In 1966, Moyer opened Eastgate Theater in Portland, the first multi-screen theater in the region.

AMC Northwest 4 was one of the first multi-screen theatres built in Houston, Texas.

Now we have museums, multi-screen theaters, an Equity playhouse - everything that any major suburban community has, plus a thriving resort.