Theater owners will play a key role in solving the problem of adolescent smoking. Educated by concerned groups within their communities, they can press the studios to clean up their act. They can show anti-tobacco spots before smoking movies. And they can reduce kids’ exposure immediately by handling admissions to youth-rated movies with smoking the same way they handle R-rated films.

Theaters don’t cause the problem. But they can do a great deal to help solve it.

Movie theaters are the part of the film industry within your reach. In fact, contacting local theater owners is one of the best ways to let Hollywood know that you think smoking in the movies is something they need to worry about.

Even if the local metroplex is part of a huge chain, the managers are local and many have kids of their own. There’s no reason why theaters should pay the price for the studios’ irresponsibility. Audiences and theater owners can be allies to save lives.

Educate local and corporate management.

When you contact local theaters, get in touch with top regional or national management at the same time. Explain how each can play a different role in reducing exposure — at both ends of the supply chain. Want to approach top management with other groups within your state or beyond? Contact us. We’ll help you coordinate.

Here are some key addresses. Look for the chain logo in movie listings or ask the manager which chain a theater belongs to. The largest theater chains:

AMC Entertainment
307 theaters with 4,600 screens in 30 states and in Canada, UK, France and elsewhere. Controlled by J.P. Morgan Partners and Apollo Management.

Aaron J. Stone, Chairman
Gerry Lopez, CEO and Director
AMC Entertainment
920 Main Street
Kansas City, MO 64105
Phone: 816-221-4000
Fax: 816-480-4617

Carmike
247 theaters with 2,285 screens in 35 states.

Roland C. Smith, Chairman
S. David Passman III, President and CEO
Carmike Cinemas
1301 First Avenue
Columbus, GA 31901
Phone: 706-576-3400
Fax: 706-576-2812

Cinemark
424 theaters with 4,889 screens, including Century, Tinseltown, and others in US, Canada and Latin America.

Lee Roy Mitchell, Chairman
Alan W. Stock, CEO
Cinemark
3900 Dallas Parkway, Suite 500
Plano, TX 75093
Phone: 972-665-1000
Fax: 972-665-1004

Cineplex
129 theaters with 1,328 screens across Canada: Coliseum, Famous Players, Paramounts, Silver City, Cinema City and Scotiabank.

Anthony Munk, Chairman
Ellis Jacob, CEO
1303 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario
M4T 2Y9 Canada
Phone: 416-323-6600
Fax: 416-323-6623

Kerasotes Theaters
93 theaters with 929screens in the Midwest.

Tony Kerasotes, Chairman and CEO
Dean Kerasotes, President and COO
Kerasotes Showplace Theaters
224 N. Des Plaines, Suite 200
Chicago , IL 60661
Phone: 312-756-3360
Fax: 312-777-0480

Marcus Theaters
50 theaters with 660 screens in the Midwest.

Stephen H. Marcus, Chairman
Gregory S. Marcus, CEO and Director
The Marcus Corporation
100 East Wisconsin Ave., Suite 1900
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Phone: 414-905-1000
Fax: 414-905-2879

National Amusements
1,500 screens in US, UK, Latin American and Russia: Cinema De Lux, The Bridge, Showcase, Multiplex. Parent Company of Viacom (Paramount) and CBS.

Sumner Redstone, Chairman and CEO
Shari E. Redstone, President
National Amusements
200 Elm Street
Dedham, MA 02026
Phone: 781-461-1600
Fax:781-407-0052

Regal Entertainment
550 theaters with 6,800 screens in 39 states. Theater names include Regal, Edwards, United Artists and Hoyts. Co-owns on-screen ad operation National Cinemedia. The Anschutz Corporation (Denver) has controlling interest.

Michael L. Campbell, Chairman
Amy E. Miles, CEO
Regal Entertainment
7312 Regal Lane
Knoxville, TN 37918
Phone: 865-922-1123
Fax: 865-922-3188

ALSO:

National Association of Theater Owners (NATO)
John Fithian, President and CEO
750 First Street, NE Suite 1130
Washington, DC 20002
www.natoonline.org

Update: October 2009