Who owns Emagine Entertainment?
Emagine Entertainment is owned by Kinepolis (Belgium, Euronext Brussels: KIN), which has owned the brand since 11 February 2026.[1][2][3]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Kinepolis Group — Annual results 2025, regulated information, Kinepolis Group NV, 19 February 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Kinepolis Group NV reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇧🇪 Belgium, Ghent
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Live & sport › Cinema chains
- Parent ticker
- Euronext Brussels: KIN
- Last verified
- · 3 sources
About Emagine Entertainment
Emagine Entertainment brought Kinepolis 14 cinemas with 177 screens and 18,000 seats across Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, about six million visitors a year and nearly USD 129 million of revenue. It has its own premium large formats, EMX in 14 auditoriums and Super EMX in three, the latter with 64-channel Dolby Atmos. Kinepolis also licenses the Emagine name out: cinemas in Minnesota, Colorado and two Michigan sites trade under it while third parties run them.
Ownership timeline of Emagine Entertainment
- 2026 – present Kinepolis [1][2][3] reported Kinepolis published two dates for this completion. Its annual results report of 19 February 2026 states that it completed the acquisition of the operations of Emagine Entertainment on 11 February 2026; its own completion press release is dated 12 February 2026 at 17:45 CET and says only that the conditions have now been fulfilled. The report is the document that names a date, so 11 February is recorded.
Where Emagine Entertainment sits in Kinepolis
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Kinepolis
Kinepolis controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in media & entertainment.
Also in media & entertainment
Other brands in cinema chains, and who owns them
The 23 brands in cinema chains on Brandtree belong to 9 owners. The largest is CJ CGV, with 7; Kinepolis has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| 4DX | CJ CGV | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Century Theatres | Cinemark | 🇺🇸 United States |
| AMC Theatres | AMC Theatres | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Cineplex | Cineplex | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| IMAX | IMAX | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| VOX Cinemas | Majid Al Futtaim | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates |
| T-Joy | Toei | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| TOHO CINEMAS | TOHO | 🇯🇵 Japan |
About the owner: Kinepolis
Kinepolis is a publicly listed company headquartered in Ghent, Belgium, founded in 1997. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as Euronext Brussels: KIN.
Kinepolis Group was formed in 1997 by the merger of two family-run Belgian cinema groups and listed a year later. It now operates 122 cinemas with 1,314 screens and more than 220,000 seats, 63 of them in Europe and the rest in Canada and the United States, and turned over €564.9 million in 2025. Cinemas are only part of it: the group also does film distribution, event organisation, screen advertising and property management, and of the €43.9 million it invested in 2025, €22.9 million went on maintaining the cinemas it has and €19.8 million on internal expansion.
🇺🇸 Emagine Entertainment and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Emagine Entertainment among them.
- 20th Century Studios — Disney 🇺🇸
- AMC — AMC Networks 🇺🇸
- AMC Theatres — AMC Theatres 🇺🇸
- AMF — Lucky Strike Entertainment 🇺🇸
- Adventure Island — United Parks 🇺🇸
- Antenna TV — Nexstar 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Emagine Entertainment?
The parent company of Emagine Entertainment is Kinepolis, a publicly listed company headquartered in Belgium.
Is Emagine Entertainment American or Belgian?
Emagine Entertainment originated in the United States, but it is owned today by Kinepolis, which is headquartered in Belgium. So Emagine Entertainment is an American-origin brand under Belgian ownership.
Since when has Kinepolis owned Emagine Entertainment?
Kinepolis has owned Emagine Entertainment since 11 February 2026.
Is Emagine Entertainment still owned by Kinepolis?
Yes. As of 26 September 2026, Emagine Entertainment is still owned by Kinepolis. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (3) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Kinepolis Group — Annual results 2025, regulated information — Kinepolis Group NV, Annual report, published 19 February 2026; retrieved 26 September 2026.
- [2] Kinepolis completes acquisition of American movie theatre chain Emagine Entertainment (Internet Archive capture) — Kinepolis Group NV, Official press release, published 12 February 2026; retrieved 26 September 2026.
- [3] About Kinepolis — group profile and cinema count (Internet Archive capture) — Kinepolis Group NV, Official document; retrieved 26 September 2026.
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