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Cineplex Odeon Varsity Cinemas Manulife Centre: 1974 present 2-12 Includes some luxury "VIP" theatres. Circle Theatre North Toronto: 1933 1956 1 Classic Theatre (originally named "The King's Royal Theatre") Greenwood and Gerrard 1914 1957 1 As of Dec. 1, 2017, it is The Redwood Theatre Cineplex Cinemas Scarborough Scarborough Town Centre: 1998 ...
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 Cinemas was founded in 1928 by Oscar Deutsch in Brierley Hill, England. In 1938, the company was bought by J. Arthur Rank, and shortly after this time, a Canadian arm of the business was opened, called Odeon Theatres Canada. Toronto's first Odeon theatre was the Odeon Fairlawn, located at 3320 Yonge Street, and was also designed by Jay ...
Founded in 1981 on the original premises of the historic Odeon Theatre—which was operated between 1949 and 1973 as the Canadian flagship of Odeon Cinemas—the Carlton Cinema became the first multiplex in Toronto to focus on art-house content. [3] It ran continuously for 28 years before being closed in 2009 by Cineplex Odeon. [3]
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).
Odeon Theatres of Canada was established in 1941, before merging with the Canadian Theatres chain in 1978, becoming Canadian Odeon Theatres. [12] In 1979, Garth Drabinsky and Nat Taylor created the Cineplex Corporation and opened its first "Cineplex" theatre complex, in the Toronto Eaton Centre. [8]
Humber Cinemas, originally the Odeon Humber Theatre, was a movie theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The theatre was operated by the Odeon and Loews Cineplex chains until 2003. The theatre re-opened as an independent theatre in 2011 and operated until 2019 when it closed permanently. The theatre was located on Bloor Street just west of Jane ...
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]