Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (CNK)
Movie theaters in the Americas. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 18, 2026. Ranked 16 of the 17 Communication Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
18%
End of 2028
41%
Employees, annual report
27,900
Leading staffing pattern
Motion Picture and Video Industries
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now18%
- End of 202735%
- End of 202841%
- End of 203042%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 61%
- Becomes checking a model's work 28%
- Handed over with lighter checks 9%
27,900 employees, the sum of 18,300 in the U.S. and 9,600 in Latin America, mostly part-time, at movie theaters read as one motion picture pattern.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 18% now, 35% at the end of 2027, 41% at the end of 2028, 42% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 42% desk work, 29% people work and 29% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 61% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 28% becomes checking a model's work and 9% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
27,900 employees as of December 31, 2025 (sum of stated parts). 18,300 of 27,900 employees are in the U.S. and 9,600 in its international markets (stated).
The filing: “We currently have approximately 18,300 employees in the U.S., approximately 21% of whom are full-time employees and 79% of whom are part-time employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Motion Picture and Video Industries | 100% | The filing describes one business, movie theaters in the U.S. and thirteen Latin American countries, and counts employees by region, not by function (c); motion picture theaters sit in this group, and the pattern applies abroad under rule 7 since the work is the same kind. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 18,300 U.S. employees, 21% full-time and 79% part-time; 9,600 international employees, 48% full-time and 52% part-time; headcount varies with the season and film releases; no unionized domestic employees, many international locations under union contracts.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Motion Picture and Video Industries, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD, 35,500 employees)23% now, 53% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
5 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in five sentences, in its risk factors and regulatory discussion: the emergence of new ticketing platforms and agentic AI purchase channels that could take online ticketing fees, artificial intelligence among the laws it must comply with, and emerging AI regulations adding compliance burdens.
- “Additionally, the emergence of new ticketing platforms and agentic AI purchase channels could result in the loss of a significant portion of our online ticketing fees and adversely impact the effectiveness of our digital marketing.”
- “We must comply with laws regulating, among other things, antitrust activities, employment environment, sale of goods and services, health and safety, alcoholic beverages, artificial intelligence, data protection and privacy and Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ("ADA") and similar state disability rights laws.”
- “Emerging artificial intelligence regulations could further increase compliance burdens and legal risks.”
- “These changes in the legal and regulatory environments in the areas of customer and employee privacy, data security, artificial intelligence, and cross-border data flows could have a material adverse effect on our business, primarily through the impairment of our marketing and transaction processing activities, the limitation on the types of information that we may collect, process, transfer an...”
- “Because of the scope and complexity of our information technology systems, our reliance on vendors to provide, support and protect our systems and data, and the constantly evolving cyber-threat landscape, including those involving sophisticated artificial intelligence tools, our information technology systems are subject to the risk of disruption, failure, unauthorized access, cyber-terrorism,...”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20242median 4
- Fiscal 20255median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 18,300 | 2026-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 18,800 | 2025-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 17,500 | 2024-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 18,100 | 2023-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 16,000 | 2022-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 18,000 | 2021-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 22,000 | 2020-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 20,000 | 2019-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 18,700 | 2018-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 19,200 | 2017-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 19,300 | 2016-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 16,500 | 2015-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 17,200 | 2014-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 13,500 | 2013-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 14,000 | 2012-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 14,600 | 2011-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 14,200 | 2010-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 12,900 | 2009-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 12,300 | 2008-03-28 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The headcount is the sum of the stated U.S. and international counts (rule 2); the collector took the U.S. count alone.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-056015, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Cinemark Holdings, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 18% now and 41% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Cinemark Holdings, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Cinemark Holdings, Inc. employ?
- 27,900 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states as the sum of the parts it gives. About 66% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Cinemark Holdings, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Motion Picture and Video Industries; by those patterns the work is about 42% desk work, 29% people work and 29% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Cinemark Holdings, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 5 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 2 and 5 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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