AMC Kitsap 8

This a great movie Cinema. They have rooms that have full recline seats! You have to reserve a seat when you purchase the ticket which was different but nice! Price seems the same as a traditional room. My friend from port orchard said she can’t go back to watching movies ‘the old way’ and will drive to Silverdale each time she wants to see a movie.
AMC Theatres was founded in 1920 by the Dubinsky Brothers — Maurice, Edward and Barney — who had been traveling the Midwest performing melodramas and tent shows with actress Jeanne Eagels. They purchased the Regent Theatre on 12^th Street between Walnut and Grand in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.[8] The Dubinskys eventually changed their name to Durwood and the company they formed was called Durwood Theatres.
In 1961, Edward’s son, Stanley, took control of Durwood Theatres, then a small 10-​theatre chain, when his father died. Stanley had attended Harvard University and served as a navigator in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. He renamed Durwood Theatres to American Royal Cinema on 1 October 1968.[9] During the incorporation process, the name was changed quickly thereafter to American Multi-​Cinema, Inc. (AMC), and Stanley Durwood began to apply military management and the insights of management science to revolutionize the movie theatre industry.[10] As he later explained to Variety magazine, «We needed to define what our company was doing in the (exhibition) business. My dad wasn’t that organized.“[11] It was structured under the belief that every customer was a «guest».
Under the new name, AMC opened the two-​screen Parkway Twin in a shopping center on Kansas City’s Ward Parkway in 1963. This marked the company’s first foray using the multiplex model. According to Variety, Stanley Durwood later claimed «in 1962 he was standing in the lobby of his 600-​seat Roxy in Kansas City mulling over its poor grosses when he realized he could double his box office by adding a second screen and still operate with the same size staff.“[12] The industry quickly embraced the concept of the multiplex, where additional screens meant very little difference in staff and operating costs but resulted in a significant increase in profits. The concept also provided more movie choices at one location drawing bigger crowds. It gave owners the flexibility to show big hits on more screens and less reliance on any individual film that could turn out as a bust.[13]
AMC Empire 25, Times Square, New York City
By the 1980s, the company was experiencing strong growth. AMC had built and was operating a number of ten-​screen multiplex cinemas in the UK, including sites at locations such as Dudley and Tamworth. These were subsequently bought and taken over by UCI. In 1995, AMC pioneered the first North American megaplex, a theater that can accommodate thousands, when it opened the AMC Grand 24 in Dallas, Texas — the first megaplex in the world had been built by European chain Kinepolis in 1988.[14] AMC continued to open other megaplex theaters, such as the AMC Hampton Towne Center 24 in Hampton, Virginia, and the chain’s busiest theater in the country, the AMC Empire 25 theater in New York City, New York, near Times Square. The largest theaters in the AMC chain have 30 screens, including the AMC Ontario Mills 30 in Ontario, California, AMC Orange 30 in Orange, California, and AMC Forum 30 in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
AMC’s megaplexes were a success overseas as well. On December 20, 1996, AMC opened AMC Arrábida 20 in Portugal. In January 2002, the 16-​screen Great Northern was opened in Manchester, which was later supplemented by the opening of a 12-​screen cinema on the Broadway Plaza site in Birmingham in October 2003. United Kingdom outlets typically serve a dual function, where in addition to the normal cinema functions, they also cater to companies’ business conferences which can make use of their projectors for displaying presentations.[citation needed]
The company was acquired by Marquee Holdings Inc. in 2004. At the time, AMC was publicly traded on AMEX under the code AEN.[15] Marquee is an investment vehicle controlled by affiliates of J.P. Morgan Partners, LLC, the private equity arm of JPMorgan Chase, and Apollo Global Management, a private investment firm.[16] The company continues to officially be headquartered in Kansas City although it has sold its headquarters building at Ten Main Center where it now leases space.[17]
In 2006, the company announced a new IPO, which was expected to be worth approximately $ 789 million;[18] however, adverse market conditions convinced the company’s management to withdraw from such an offering on May 3, 2007.[19] The company filed for a $ 450 million IPO, in its third such filing since 2006, on 14 July 2010.[20][21]

They remodeled! They have rooms that have full recline seats! You have to reserve a seat when you purchase the ticket which was different but nice! Price seems the same as a traditional room. My friend from port orchard said she can’t go back to watching movies ‘the old way’ and will drive to Silverdale each time she wants to see a movie.