Reading Cinemas (/ˈrɛdɪŋ/ RED-ing) is a group of cinema chains
operating in the United States, Australia and New Zealand under
American parent company Reading International.The company was
organized by James Cotter, who in late 1980s acquired the Reading
Company, an American former railway company that held a portfolio of
real estate properties. Through the rest of the 1990s, Cotter
acquired, developed, and operated real estate properties, focusing on
properties occupied by cinema exhibitors and live theatre operators.
Most of the company's holdings by this time were located far beyond
the company's historical native ground of Pennsylvania's coal mines.
Reading entered Australia in 1995 and New Zealand in 1997, developing
a chain of multiplex cinemas that operated under the Reading banner
and exhibited mainstream films. Domestically, Reading pursued a more
offbeat business direction, acquiring an art-house theatre at the
historic Cable Building in Lower Manhattan in 1996 that operated under
the name Angelika Film Center. The company also acquired and expanded
a chain of multiplex cinemas throughout the island of Puerto
Rico.James Cotter died in 2014, leaving the company to his son James
Jr., and his daughters Ellen and Margaret. In 2017, the California
Supreme Court insisted that a temporary trustee be appointed to the
company following a dispute over the management of the company between
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