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Earliest purpose built cinema in Toronto. Bayview Theatre Leaside: 1936 1961 1 Later was a live theatre venue known as the Bayview Playhouse. Now a drug store. Beach Theatre The Beaches: 1919 1970 1 Remodeled into a shopping centre. Cineplex Cinemas Beaches (formally Alliance Atlantis Beaches) 1651 Queen Street East, Queen and Coxwell 1999 ...
The Runnymede Theatre is a historic building located in Bloor West Village, an affluent west end Toronto neighbourhood. [1] The building has operated as a vaudeville theatre, a movie theatre, a bingo hall, and a Chapters bookstore. The building is now a Shoppers Drug Mart. [2] [3] [4]
Fox Theatre inside in 2023. The Fox Theatre was built in 1914, making it the second-oldest cinema that is still in use in Toronto, after the Revue Cinema, [5] which was built in 1912 and later closed in 2006, [6] before re-opening in 2007; [7] as a result of this, the Fox Theatre is the oldest continuously operating cinema in Toronto.
The single-screen cinema was expanded to a twin-plex in 1982, and the balcony was converted into a third theater in 1986. Locally owned since 1971, the Strand was sold to nearby Ohio Wesleyan ...
Among the changes was the closures of 46 theatres in North America including 21 Loews theatres in the U.S. and 25 Cineplex Odeon theatres in Canada. [18] In 2002, Onex Corporation and Oaktree Capital Management acquired Loews Cineplex from Sony and Universal and the company was filed for initial public offering (IPO).
The Revue Cinema is a cinema in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built between late-1911 and early-1912, it is a designated 'heritage' site and is Toronto's oldest standing movie theatre in use for showing movies. When news of its closure became public, a grass-roots community movement sprang up in order to save the cinema.
The Eglinton Theatre, (or Eglinton Grand) is an event venue and cinema in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [2] In 2016, it was designated a National Historic Site by Parks Canada and the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. [3] Built in 1936, [4] the Eglinton became one of the best examples of the Art Deco-style in Canadian theatre design.
The State Theatre, located in a rural community about 30 miles outside of Iowa City, is the oldest continually operating movie theater in the world. While theaters, which closed from coast to ...