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Cinépolis is a Mexico-based international movie theater chain. Its name means City of Cinema and its slogan is La Capital del Cine (English: the Capital of Cinema). As of 2009 Cinépolis was the biggest cineplex chain in Mexico, with 427 theaters in 97 cities. It is also the largest chain in Latin America and one of the largest in the world, also owning cinemas in Spain, India, Indonesia, Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and the United States.

Enrique Ramírez Miguel founded Organización Ramírez© in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico in 1971. Years before, the company opened the first cinema in the city of Salamanca the company was rebranded as Cinematográfica Cadena de Oro, S.A., opening theaters in Acámbaro and Guanajuato. By 1971, the brand had already expanded to Mexico City with the opening of Cine La Raza. In 1972 Cinemas Gemelos was born and one year later the national expansion of Multicinemas began. The company was rebranded in 1994 as Cinépolis with the first multiplex-style theaters in Tijuana. In 1999, Cinépolis VIP was created. It is believed to be the biggest cinema chain in Mexico. In 2019 the brand updated its logo mark and began rolling out the new mark to locations around the world.

Cinépolis VIP was created in 1999 and is considered one of the pioneers in the development of the Luxury Cinema concept.

In 1997, Cineticket was created to give users the option to buy their tickets online instead of waiting to purchase at the venue. Cineticket was the first online theater ticket-selling-system in Mexico.

On 2 June 2011, Cinépolis invested $25 million and partnered with the South Korean company CJ Group to open 11 4DX theaters throughout Mexico. 4DX features motion seats, wind effects, water and air spray, and odors with over 100 scents. It first opened at the Plaza Acoxpa mall in Mexico City with the release of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. On 1 July 2012, Cinépolis opened South America's first 4DX theater in Brazil at the JK Iguatemi shopping mall in São Paulo with the release of Prometheus and Ice Age: Continental Drift. It is the launch customer in the Western Hemisphere and is one of the largest 4DX clients. The technology has expanded throughout Mexico, and has theaters in Chile (Cinépolis Chile), Brazil, Peru, Colombia, India, Central America, and the United States.

It was announced on 1 April 2019 that Cinépolis expanded its partnership with the CGV group to bring the first ScreenX theater technology in Mexico, which is a 270-degree, multi-screen theater that allows viewers to experience a film beyond the typical frame of the film's screen. It debuted at the Parque Las Antenas theater in Mexico City on 23 January 2020. It also has one ScreenX location in the United States in San Mateo, California.

A combination of the conventional ScreenX and the motion-enhanced 4DX theaters, Cinépolis also utilizes the "4DX Screen" (a.k.a. "4DX with ScreenX") theater that includes a fourth ceiling screen and newest 4DX seat versions, first opened at the Parque Toreo theater in Mexico City on 4 March 2020. Introduced in 2017, this marks the merged technology's debut outside the Asia region and overseas.

Cinépolis has opened theaters in the capitals of Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia. Cinépolis attempted to expand their business to Ecuador, but failed. So far, 11 theatres have been opened outside Mexico under the Cinépolis brand, with a planned expansion to Peru, with the opening of a fourteen-screen theatre in Lima, a theatre in Cali, Colombia and a third in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

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