Company type | Private subsidiary |
---|---|
Industry | Entertainment |
Founders | Adolph Zukor |
Successor | Cineplex Odeon |
Headquarters | |
Services | Movie 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).