Carmike Cinemas is a motion picture exhibitor headquartered in Columbus, Georgia in the United States of America. As of March 2016, the company has 276 theaters with 2,954 screens in 41 states, and is the fourth largest movie theater company in the United States. The company bills itself as "America's Hometown Theatre" and Carmike theaters are largely positioned in rural or suburban areas with populations under 200,000. The company's theaters operate under various names and will generally have a name followed by the number of auditoriums at that location; for example, "Carmike 15".