Christopher Nolan is a director.
B&B Theatres in Missouri isn’t just a family-run business, it’s the product of a family tradition. The first “B” stands for Bills Theaters, founded in 1924 by Elmer Bills Sr. The second represents the Bagby Traveling Picture Show, formed by one of Bills’s former concession clerks. For generations, these two families found spouses and friends at their theaters and drive-in exhibitions, and eventually merged in 1980. For a century, B&B brought movies to Midwestern audiences. During that time, the company apparently never laid off a single employee. This week, though, B&B shuttered 418 theaters serving audiences in Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas and had to lay off 2,000 workers.
