The Decurion Corporation

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The Decurion Corporation
Industry Entertainment
Founded1946
FounderWilliam R. Forman
Headquarters,
United States
Key people
Christopher Forman
Products Motion pictures, movie theaters
Website decurion.com

The Decurion Corporation is an American corporation with headquarters in Los Angeles, California. It was the parent company of Pacific Theatres and ArcLight Hollywood. [1] [2]

The Decurion Corporation is one of the three organizations studied throughout the book An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization. [3] and has been rumored to be affiliated with the Church of Scientology as a front organization. [4]

On April 12, 2021, its subsidiaries, Pacific Theatres and ArcLight Cinemas announced they would not be reopening any of their theater locations after being closed since March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times that, “After shutting our doors more than a year ago, today we must share the difficult and sad news that Pacific will not be reopening its ArcLight Cinemas and Pacific Theatres locations,” Pacific Theatres said in a statement. “This was not the outcome anyone wanted, but despite a huge effort that exhausted all potential options, the company does not have a viable way forward.” [5]

Although the majority of Pacific's theatres were purchased by AMC Theatres and Regal Entertainment, Decurion retained ownership of the Cinerama Dome and ArcLight Hollywood location. [5]

References

  1. Singer, Natasha (17 March 2012). "Helping Managers Find, and Fix, Their Flaws (Published 2012)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2023-06-29.
  2. "Decurion Corp". Bloomberg News.
  3. Kegan, Robert (2016). An Everyone Culture. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business Review Press. ISBN   9781625278623.
  4. Kudler, Adrian Glick (2013-10-11). "Is Arclight Cinemas Owned By the Church of Scientology?". Curbed LA . Retrieved 2025-06-24.
  5. 1 2 Faughnder, Ryan (12 April 2021). "Pacific and ArcLight theaters will not reopen following the pandemic, company says". Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on April 13, 2021. Retrieved 13 April 2021.