Summary Financial Information for National CineMedia (Detail) - NCM - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016	Apr. 02, 2015
Schedule of Equity Method Investments [Line Items]
Gross revenues	$ 76,242	$ 76,867
Operating income (loss)	5,751	(24,111)
Net loss	$ (7,510)	$ (38,729)

Equity Method Investment, Summarized Financial Information, Operating Income (Loss)

No definition available.

Name:	cnk_EquityMethodInvestmentSummarizedFinancialInformationOperatingIncomeLoss
Namespace Prefix:	cnk_
Data Type:	xbrli:monetaryItemType
Balance Type:	credit
Period Type:	duration

- Definition

Equity Method Investment Summarized Financial Information Profit Loss

+ References

No definition available.

+ Details

Name:	cnk_EquityMethodInvestmentSummarizedFinancialInformationProfitLoss
Namespace Prefix:	cnk_
Data Type:	xbrli:monetaryItemType
Balance Type:	credit
Period Type:	duration

- Definition

The amount of revenue from sale of goods and services reduced by sales returns, allowances, and discounts reported by an equity method investment of the entity.

+ References

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 205
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 7
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51717284&loc=SL51721683-107760

Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 323
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (c)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6382943&loc=d3e33918-111571

+ Details

Name:	us-gaap_EquityMethodInvestmentSummarizedFinancialInformationRevenue
Namespace Prefix:	us-gaap_
Data Type:	xbrli:monetaryItemType
Balance Type:	credit
Period Type:	duration

- Definition

Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

+ References

No definition available.

+ Details

Name:	us-gaap_ScheduleOfEquityMethodInvestmentsLineItems
Namespace Prefix:	us-gaap_
Data Type:	xbrli:stringItemType
Balance Type:	na
Period Type:	duration

- Details

Name:	us-gaap_ScheduleOfEquityMethodInvestmentEquityMethodInvesteeNameAxis=cnk_NcmMember
Namespace Prefix:
Data Type:	na
Balance Type:
Period Type: