All Rights Reserved. Whether it's Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca, Vivian Leigh in Gone with the Wind, or even the lovable alien in E.T., movies are magical.
People live their fantasies through movies.
For some, it's entertainment, for others, therapy. Industry experts estimate that local movie theaters receive about 13 to 14 million visits a year. That's a weekly average of 259,000 people visiting 225 local movie theaters. This growth mirrors the booming development of movie theater chains in the 1990s. A decade ago, the two main local theater chains, Caribbean Cinemas and CineVista, had 61 screens between them.