[4] In 1997, Cineticket was created to give users the option to buy their tickets online instead of waiting to purchase at the venue.

On 2 June 2011, Cinépolis invested $25 million and partnered with the South Korean company CJ Group to open 11 4DX theaters throughout Mexico.

[5] 4DX features motion seats, wind effects, water and air spray, and odors with over 100 scents.

It first opened at the Plaza Acoxpa mall in Mexico City with the release of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

On 1 July 2012, Cinépolis opened South America's first 4DX theater in Brazil at the JK Iguatemi shopping mall in São Paulo with the release of Prometheus and Ice Age: Continental Drift.

[8] Cinépolis has opened theatres in the capitals of Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia.

Ashish Shukla, CEO of Cinépolis Gulf, has revealed plans to expand across the GCC this year, with new cinemas set to open in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Oman.

In November 2018 it created the Bay Theatre in Pacific Palisades, California, based on an original 1940s design by architect S. Charles Lee as a plush five-screen cinema that features a coastal-themed menu at its concession stand, including an extensive wine list.

[26] In October 2018, Cinépolis announced partnership with Cinemaxx, owned by Indonesia's Lippo Group, by acquiring 40% ownership stake.

[28][29][30] In 2003, Organización Ramírez created the Cinépolis Foundation to help underprivileged people get medical care and education.

The Foundation's program, Del Amor Nace la Vista (From love, sight is born) has been recognised as The Best Practice in Social Responsibility.

[32] In March 2015, an article from the Mexican edition of Forbes magazine revealed that Cinépolis, along with rival movie theater chain Cinemex, were fined $7 million pesos each for directly disobeying instructions by the Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE, National Electoral Institute), by showing political propaganda of the Partido Verde Ecologista de Mexico (Ecologist Green Party of Mexico), with the political party itself being fined $35 million pesos.

[33][34] In 2017, the Del Amor Nace La Vista charity foundation of Cinépolis was criticized for allegedly leaving 100 Mayan indigenous people blind due to negligence.