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The Plaza in Truro The Regal Cinema in Redruth. The Plaza Cinema on Truro's Lemon Street opened in 1938 and was the premier venue for film-goers at the time. It has changed hands many times and is now owned by WTW Cinemas, who purchased it in 1996.
Merlin Cinemas Limited [1] are a British cinema chain. The company was formed in 1990 and predominantly operates in small coastal towns. Merlin Cinemas mainly operate traditional cinema buildings rather than new builds. In 2023 Merlin Cinemas acquired the Odeon cinema in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, and renamed it Plaza Cinema. The cinema ...
Designed by architect George Harwell Bond, the Plaza Theatre opened on December 23, 1939, as an art deco cinema and live theatre space. It was the neighbourhood cinema for the Druid Hills, Virginia Highland, and Poncey-Highland neighbourhoods of Atlanta.
Plaza 1907 (formerly known as The Plaza Grill and Cinema and Crystal Plaza and The Bijou) is located in Ottawa, Kansas, United States and has been named the "oldest purpose-built cinema in operation in the world", [1] [2] having applied to Guinness World Records in June 2017 and beaten out a theatre in Denmark by two days.
Landmark was brought out of Silver Cinemas' bankruptcy by Oaktree Capital, [13] allowing the construction and opening of the Sunshine, Bethesda Row and E Street Cinemas. On September 24, 2003, Landmark was acquired by Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban 's 2929 Entertainment , [ 14 ] the Magnolia Pictures exhibition wing folded into Landmark Theatres.
The cinema was listed Grade II on 4 August 1999 because it was considered a very rare example in Wales of 1930s cinema architecture, [2] with an interior which was largely intact. [2] It was purchased by the local authority in 2009, but by 2019 the building was derelict, and a campaign was launched to save it and turn it over for community use.
The plaza is extensively dotted with floral hanging baskets during the summer and is the site of Truro's Christmas tree during the festive season. One building on High Cross has certain significance; the Georgian Assembly Rooms building, a Warrens Bakery store until March 2020, [ 5 ] was built in 1789 and was the centre of Truro's high society ...
At the time of sale in 1997, Act III Theaters consisted of 124 multiplex theaters operating 793 screens located primarily in San Antonio and Austin, Texas and Portland, Oregon, and was the tenth-largest chain of cinemas in the United States. [2] [3]