Metropolitan Theatres

Metropolitan Theatres
Company typePrivate
IndustryEntertainment
Founded1923 (1923)
FounderJoseph Corwin
FateFiled for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2024
Headquarters,
Area served
Southern California
Loveland and Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Park City, Utah
Key people
David Corwin (CEO)
ServicesMovie theater
OwnerCorwin family
Websitewww.metrotheatres.com

Metropolitan Theatres is Los Angeles's oldest movie theater chain. Opened in 1923, they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2024, at which point they owned 15 theaters: ten in southern California (including seven out of eight in Santa Barbara), three in Colorado, and two in Utah.