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Cinemark Holdings Chief Executive Mark Zoradi, who has led the nation’s third-largest theater chain through the COVID-19 pandemic and a streaming revolution in Hollywood, will retire at the end of the year, the company said Wednesday.
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Zoradi, a former Walt Disney Co. executive who joined Plano, Texas-based Cinemark in 2015, will remain a board director of the exhibitor, which operates 523 theatres with 5,872 screens, the company said.
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