Max-Film continues to try and challenge leading cinema company Kinoplex

Aleksander Walczak, a former Cinematography Committee official, now controls over 20 cinemas across the country. This has made his company, Kinoplex, one of the leading cinema companies. The secret behind his success are the lease contracts with Max-Film, an organization that is in the hands of local governments, and which owns 32 cinemas. Kinoplex pays Max-Film symbolic rents, but recently Max-Film is trying, albeit unsuccessfully, to recover the cinemas and move away from the unfavorable agreements. "The contracts concerning the lease and common investments signed by my predecessor are a real masterpiece. They are constructed in such a way that the money goes in only one direction. Unfortunately, this is not our direction," said Jerzy Rutkowski, a Max-Film director. But getting out of this difficult situation will not be easy as Kinoplex has heavily invested in renovating the cinemas and so is reluctant to renegotiate the contracts or pull out of the deal. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A4) A.D.