Plitt Theatres

Plitt Theatres
Company typePrivate subsidiary
IndustryEntertainment
FoundersAdolph Zukor
SuccessorCineplex Odeon
Headquarters
ServicesMovie exhibition
Revenue$168 million (1984[1])
$11 million (1984[1])

Plitt Theatres was a major movie theater chain in the United States and went under a number of names, Publix Theaters Corporation, Paramount Publix Corporation, United Paramount Theatres, American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres and ABC Theatres and operated a number of theater circuits under various names.

The chain was originally the theater division of Paramount Pictures, incorporating a number of theater circuits acquired by Paramount, notably Balaban and Katz. Paramount was required to divest the theater chain as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948).

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