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One of the former Odeon cinemas in Leeds, pictured in May 1980.This is now a Sports Direct branch.. Odeon Cinemas was created in 1928 by Oscar Deutsch.Odeon publicists liked to claim that the name of the cinemas was derived from his motto, "Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation", [5] but it had been used for cinemas in France and Italy in the 1920s, and the word is actually Ancient Greek ...
When the Cornwall Circuit Group of cinemas were taken over by The Rank Group, the cinema was later sold off to independent Vivian Bartle, and in 1983 the former café area was converted into an 80-seat screen 2. The auditorium was tripled in 1986 with seating for 600 front area (screen 3) and 172 (screen 2) & 121 (Screen 1) in the rear areas ...
Odeon Cinemas Group Limited [1] is Europe's largest cinema operator. Through subsidiaries it has over 360 cinemas, with 2900 screens in 14 countries in Europe, 120 cinemas with 960 screens are in the UK. [2] It receives more than 2.2 million guests per week. [3] [4] Odeon Cinemas Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of AMC Theatres.
Cineplex Odeon Corporation was one of North America's largest movie theatre operators and live theatre, with theatres in its home country of Canada and the United States.The Cineplex Odeon brand is still being used by Cineplex Entertainment at some theatres that were once owned by the Cineplex Odeon Corporation, with newer theatres using the Cineplex Cinemas (French: Cinémas Cineplex) brand.
Odeon Cinema, Manchester: Cinema on Oxford Street, Manchester, England United Kingdom: Odeon Leicester Square: Cinema which occupies the centre of the eastern side of Leicester Square, London United Kingdom: Odeon, Kingstanding: Former cinema in north Birmingham, England
The Whiteladies Picture House (grid reference) is a cinema on Whiteladies Road in Clifton, Bristol, England.. It was built in 1920–1921 by James Henry LaTrobe and Thomas Harry Weston (1870–1923) and opened by the Duchess of Beaufort on 29 November 1921.
Among the films that it showed were ones created by its own staff, such as one of 'B.C. Hucks at Weston-super-Mare' which showed the first aeroplane crossing of the Bristol Channel. [2] The site was redeveloped in 1934 by Odeon Cinemas and opened in 1935. T Cecil Howitt was chosen as the architect, this being one of four Odeon cinemas that he ...
Coors Event Centre, formerly Odeon Events Centre, in Saskatoon, Canada (originally built as a theatre) Former Odeon cinemas in Leeds, UK; Odeon Cinemas, a cinema chain; Odeon Leeds-Bradford, a cinema complex in the UK; Odeon Star, a cinema in the Adelaide suburb of Semaphore, South Australia