Dalian Wanda Group Corp Ltd, one of China's leading property developers and the owner of the country's largest movie theater chain by box office revenue, is in talks to buy a European theater chain, a company spokesman said on Monday.

The move comes several months after the Chinese conglomerate's $2.6 billion acquisition of the United States' second-largest theater chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc, which operates 346 multiplex theaters with more than 5,000 screens in the US and Canada.

The spokesman declined to elaborate.