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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 ...
Hatfield has a nine-screen Odeon cinema, a stately home (Hatfield House), a museum (Mill Green Museum), a contemporary art gallery (Art and Design Gallery), a theatre (The Weston Auditorium) and a music venue (The Forum Hertfordshire). There are shopping centres in the new town: the Galleria (indoor shopping centre), The Stable Yard (Hatfield ...
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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.
The Empire Cinema, formerly the Odeon Cinema, is a cinema in Maney, Sutton Coldfield in West Midlands, England. Built in 1936, it is notable for its Art Deco style. It is a Grade II listed building. [1] It closed in 2020; its future re-opening, as the Royal Cinema, was announced in December 2023. [2] [3]
In 1988 the Odeon was refurbished and made into a 5-screen cinema with a reduced seating capacity of 1,923. The Odeon, which was the last picture palace in the city centre, closed due to competition with local multiplexes and the impending opening of a thirteen screen multiplex at The Light retail and leisure complex originally operated by Ster ...
That chain withdrew before the cinema was completed, so Odeon Cinemas took over. [1] The cinema opened on 6 July 2000, showing Stuart Little. [clarification needed] Odeon had closed the Bradford Odeon in June 2000 [1] and closed the Odeon Cinema Leeds in 2001. In September 2017 the cinema underwent a major refit converting the cinema to Odeon ...
The company began in 1979 as Pan-Canadian Film Distributors, a partnership between film producer Garth Drabinsky and inventor Nat Taylor, [1] based in Toronto, Ontario. [2] At the time of its establishment in the United States, the Cineplex Odeon theatre chain and the tie-in studio were owned by the MCA entertainment group, also the then-owners of Universal Pictures. [3]