Halftime

"We are kind of at the halftime of the rescreening of America," said David Brain, chief executive and president of Entertainment Properties Trust, a Kansas real-estate investment company with a $1.1 billion portfolio of theaters.

A thousand new screens have opened nationwide in the past year after five years of stagnation, according to the National Association of Theatre Owners, a trade group based in Washington, D.C.

From Showtime: Math, not magic, guides cinema plans - Margaret Webb Pressler, The Washington Post