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Reading Cinemas ( ) is a group of cinema chains operating in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. They are owned by Reading International, a U.S.-based company.
Reading entered the Australia market in 1995 and the New Zealand market two years later, in 1997, developing a chain of multiplex cinemas that operated under the Reading banner and exhibited mainstream films. In the United States, Reading pursued a more offbeat business direction, acquiring an art-house theatre at the historic Cable Building in New York City in 1996 that operated under the name Angelika Film Center. The company also acquired and expanded a chain of multiplex cinemas throughout the island of Puerto Rico.
By 1996, Cotter reorganized the company as Reading Entertainment, a Delaware corporation, and on December 31, 2001, both Reading Entertainment and Craig Corporation merged into and with Citadel Holding Corporation, another Cotter company.
In 2015, James Jr. was ousted by his sisters and a majority of the board of Reading International and Ellen Cotter subsequently was named CEO.
In 2023, Mayor of Wellington Tory Whanau and the Wellington Council had voted to give Council staff the approval to negotiate the NZ$32 million agreement to refurbish and earthquake-strengthen the Wellington building, which housed the historic Wellington theater, but had been closed since 2019. In April 2024, the Wellington City Council exited the agreement, citing Reading's inability to come up with its share of the investment.
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