Cinemark Opens 6, Plans 14

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico – Cinemark International unveiled its new 8-plex in the Southern Mexico town of Tuxtla Gutierrez June 6, and announced fall openings for an 8-plex in Costa Rica and a 6-plex in Chile.
The 1,850-seat, 35,389-square-foot facility on Tuxtla Gutierrez’s Galerias Boulevard in Mexico was built within the popular Liverpool, a site named for the region’s largest department store.
“To date, we have constructed 265 screens throughout Mexico,” said Cinemark International president Tim Warner. “We have always believed in the potential of the Tuxtla site.”
Set to bow in October, the 8-screen 1,600-seat Multiplaza del Este in San Jose, Costa Rica, will be the circuit’s second cinema in that nation. The 29,148-square-foot facility will be a component of a large entertainment, shopping and activity development center.
The 6-screen Plaza Norte Theatre in the Santiago, Chile, suburb of Huechuraba was set to bow in early November and will be the circuit’s 12th facility in Chile.
Filling 24,844 square feet, the 1,340-seat plex will be an addition to a modern retail development center.
All facilities feature, or were set to feature, stadium-style seating, high-backed rocker love seats with cupholder armrests and wall-to-wall screens.
Cinemark currently operates 3,045 screens in 33 U.S. states and 14 countries outside of the United States, including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru and Taiwan
In Focus - September 2003