Inanoglu in Movie Theater Business

While producing feature films and dealing with their distribution to both domestic and foreign markets, Turker Inanoglu entered the business of operating movie theaters.

Inanoglu’s first attempt was in 1970. He rented a theater jointly with his friend Toros Karabulut. The theater, formerly called “Gurel”, originally housed an open air cinema of five thousand seats and an indoor cinema of one thousand seats. Following an extensive revision-restoration work, the movie theater reopened with a nine thousand-seat open air cinema and a very elegant and modern indoor cinema of one thousand seats. Unprecedented to this day, the place was renamed as “Yumurcak” after the very popular “Yumurcak” film series of those years. The theater instantly became one of the most popular entertainment locations and people from all around the city streamed into “Yumurcak” to watch movies.

Later on, Inanoglu assumed for a while the management of several other movie theaters in Istanbul (including “Saray” in Beyoglu, “Reks” in Kadikoy and “Unverdi” in Bahcelievler) and 3 movie theaters that belonged to Dedeman family in Ankara.

Today, with a modern management perception, Inanoglu operates multiple-screen theaters offering digital projection and 3D technologies of our times in line with the “boutique cinema” concept targeting average audience. These theaters, all in Istanbul, include “Atlas” in Beyoglu, “Bogazici” in Kavacik, “TİM” in Maslak and last but not least “Kent” in Sisli which Inanoglu had bought in 1990 jointly with Irfan Unal and transformed to a 4-screen theater introducing to Turkish audience the “mini cinema” concept for the first time.