Wildhorse Stadium Cinemas

Wildhorse Stadium Cinemas is a movie theatre located in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in the United States. It operates as part of the circuit of Metropolitan Theatres Corporation, a Los Angeles-based, privately held exhibition company that has been owned by the Corwin family since 1923. The venue is listed among the group's locations on Metropolitan's official website, where showtimes and coming-soon titles are presented alongside the circuit's other houses. Metropolitan Theatres describes itself as operating a diverse collection of historic properties and state-of-the-art multiplexes among its 10 theatres, 52 screens, and two IMAX auditoriums in California and Colorado. Wildhorse Stadium Cinemas belongs to the Colorado side of that footprint, which the company entered and expanded through its Metro/Rocky Mountain Cinemas venture formed in September 2003 to operate state-of-the-art cinemas in the Denver, Colorado DMA, including Loveland, Colorado. The Steamboat Springs location extends the circuit's presence into a mountain resort market in the same state. As a stadium-style cinema, the venue follows the modern multiplex format that Metropolitan has pursued in its next-generation growth plan, which the company says focuses on new development, theatre acquisitions, and providing theatre management services. Programming at Metropolitan houses typically combines mainstream first-run Hollywood releases with special events and promotions, which the circuit highlights on its website. The brand is therefore best understood not as an independent chain but as a local theatre banner within the Metropolitan Theatres family. Its identity is tied to the Corwin family's long-running exhibition business, whose history reaches back to a single downtown Los Angeles theatre, the Broadway, founded in 1923 by Joseph H. Corwin. Leadership passed through generations: Sherrill Corwin expanded the circuit into Palm Springs and Santa Barbara; Bruce C. Corwin served as Chairman and CEO for 40 years until his death on November 4, 2021; and his son David Corwin is President, representing the fourth generation of family management. For audiences in Steamboat Springs, Wildhorse Stadium Cinemas functions as a local first-run movie house, with schedules and promotions distributed through Metropolitan's central website and location pages. Its commercial identity is that of a community cinema backed by a regional, family-owned exhibitor with properties in California and Colorado.

Wildhorse Stadium Cinemas is a movie theatre in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, United States, and forms part of the exhibition circuit of Metropolitan Theatres Corporation. The history of the brand is therefore inseparable from the history of its parent company, a Los Angeles-based, privately held exhibitor owned by the Corwin family since 1923. Metropolitan Theatres traces its origins to Joseph H. Corwin, who moved to California from Sioux City, Iowa, and founded the company in 1923 with a single theatre, the Broadway, in downtown Los Angeles. His sons, Lawrence and Sherrill, grew with the business, and by the late 1940s Metropolitan was the dominant motion picture exhibitor in downtown Los Angeles. Sherrill Corwin ultimately became chief executive of the growing circuit and fostered expansion into Palm Springs and Santa Barbara, California. Metropolitan's largest area of concentration became Santa Barbara County, where it has operated since 1950. In the mid-1960s, Metropolitan was among the first exhibition circuits in the nation to venture into a Spanish-language film policy, both in subtitle form for American movies and in Spanish for Mexican-produced films. The company continues to operate a Spanish-language theatre in greater Los Angeles, California. Bruce C. Corwin, the company's Chairman and CEO, led Metropolitan for 40 years. Under his long tenure the circuit continued to combine historic properties with modern multiplexes. In September 2003, the company formed Metro/Rocky Mountain Cinemas, which operates state-of-the-art cinemas in the Denver, Colorado DMA, including Loveland, Colorado. This Colorado expansion is the context in which a venue such as Wildhorse Stadium Cinemas in Steamboat Springs sits within the group's footprint. Bruce C. Corwin passed away on November 4, 2021. His son, David Corwin, is Metropolitan's President and represents the fourth generation of the Corwin family to run the company. Metropolitan describes itself as currently operating a diverse collection of historic properties and state-of-the-art multiplexes among its 10 theatres, 52 screens, and two IMAX auditoriums in California and Colorado, and as focused on achieving its next-generation growth plan through new development, theatre acquisitions, and providing theatre management services. Within that circuit, Wildhorse Stadium Cinemas serves the Steamboat Springs market as a stadium-style, first-run cinema. Its public-facing presence is delivered through Metropolitan's central website, where visitors select a location to view showtimes and coming-soon titles, and where special events and promotions are highlighted across the circuit.

• 2021

  Chairman and CEO Bruce C. Corwin, who led the company for 40 years, passes away on November 4.

• 2003

  In September, the company forms Metro/Rocky Mountain Cinemas, operating state-of-the-art cinemas in the Denver, Colorado DMA including Loveland, Colorado.

• 1950

  Metropolitan begins operating in Santa Barbara County, California, which becomes its largest area of concentration.

• 1923

  Joseph H. Corwin founds Metropolitan Theatres Corporation with one theatre, the Broadway, in downtown Los Angeles.

A local first-run movie theatre in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, operated within the Corwin family's Metropolitan Theatres circuit of historic properties and modern multiplexes.

• Movie theatre admissions and first-run film screenings

  Wildhorse Stadium Cinemas operates as a stadium-style movie theatre within the Metropolitan Theatres circuit, presenting showtimes and coming-soon titles through the group's website.

• Special events and promotions

  Metropolitan's website highlights special events and promotions across its locations.

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