UPDATE 5:24 p.m. May 23: AMC buys Cinetopia theaters with plan to reopen in weeks

Cinetopia, the luxury living room-style movie theater chain that started in Vancouver and has three Portland-area locations, is no longer showing movies. According to a report from The Columbian, the chain has closed indefinitely.

Earlier this month, an anonymous tipster told The Oregonian/OregonLive that Cinetopia had stopped serving food and beverages in theaters. Neither AMC or Cinetopia responded to requests for comment at the time.

Cinetopia stops in-theater service. Sent May 6, 2019 from an anonymous tipster.

The Columbian reported that Cinetopia’s Mill Plain location was closed Monday. The paper said that both the Vancouver Mall and Progress Ridge location in Beaverton were open Tuesday, but that no showtimes were scheduled beyond Tuesday.

A spokesperson for the parent shopping mall of the fourth Cinetopia location near suburban Kansas City, Mo., said that location was closed Sunday, and told The Columbian, “All we know is that it is (closed) until further notice and they’re undergoing some possible renovation.”

No Portland-area locations were answering the phone on Wednesday, and no showtimes were listed for any location on Fandango.

In May of 2018, according to the Kansas City Star, Cinetopia sued AMC in federal court on antitrust claims, saying that AMC was hurting competitors by obtaining exclusive showing rights to blockbusters -- an industry practice known as “clearance” -- specifically related to Cinetopia’s Kansas location, which is less than three miles from an AMC location.

The Columbian wrote that Cinetopia’s lawsuit against AMC included the allegation that AMC had also “engaged in bad-faith negotiations to purchase the four Cinetopia locations while simultaneously using the practice of clearances.”

In March, however, the two sides told a judge that they were working towards a settlement, the paper reported. They were planning on informing the court about that potential settlement on Friday.

Rudyard Coltman, founder of Cinetopia and owner of Portland’s newest luxury movie complex Studio One, did not respond to a request for comment. AMC declined to comment.