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Regal Entertainment Group Purchases Warren Theatres

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Wichita movie theater magnate Bill Warren has sold Warren Theatres.

The Tennessee-based Regal Entertainment Group announced on Friday it has purchased seven Warren Theatres in Kansas and Oklahoma.

Warren Theatres operates five locations in Wichita, including the Palace Theatre and the Movie Machine in Towne West Mall.

President Bill Warren says he considered other sale offers before deciding on the Regal proposal.

Regal owns more than 500 theatres in 43 states.

Nadya Faulx is KMUW's Digital News Editor and Reporter, which means she splits her time between working on-air and working online, managing news on KMUW.org, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. She joined KMUW in 2015 after working for a newspaper in western North Dakota. Before that she was a diversity intern at NPR in Washington, D.C.