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In 1915, the St. Johns City Council voted in favor of an ordinance that would censor a film entitled The House of Bondage [3] and put in place a board of censorship to weed out "lewd" films, spearheaded by socialist mayor A. W. Vincent. Managers of the theatre were supportive of the censorship board and refused to show the film a year before ...
Empire Theatres Limited was a movie theater chain in Canada, a subsidiary of Empire Company Ltd., the holding company of the Sobey family conglomerate.. In June 2013, Empire announced it would exit the movie theatre business, selling the vast majority of locations to Cineplex (24 in Atlantic Canada) and Landmark Cinemas (23, in Ontario and western Canada, including two locations originally ...
St. Johns Twin Cinema: 8704 N Lombard Street: Active: Formerly known as the Northgate Theater and St. Johns Theater. — [78] St. Johns Theater See: St. Johns Twin Cinema: 1908: Star Theater: 13 NW 6th Avenue: Inactive: Originally a silent film house; subsequently operated as an adult movie theater. Serves as a performing arts venue as of 2018 ...
SilverCity Gloucester Cinemas Ottawa: May 19, 1999 Quebec Cinéma Banque Scotia Montreal Cinéma Paramount Montreal Montreal: June 18, 1999 Nova Scotia Scotiabank Theatre Halifax Empire 18, Cineplex Cinemas Bayers Lake Halifax: December 12, 1997 Newfoundland and Labrador Scotiabank Theatre St. John's Empire Studio 12, Cineplex Cinemas Avalon Mall
Magic Johnson Theatres is a chain of movie theaters, originally developed in 1994 by Johnson Development Corporation, the business holding of basketball player-turned-entrepreneur Magic Johnson, and Sony Pictures Entertainment through a partnership with Sony-Loews Theatres.
Onex retained the Canadian Loews Cineplex and merged it with Galaxy Cinemas to form Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund. In 2005, AMC Theatres announced that it would merge with Loews Cineplex Entertainment and that the merged company would adopt the AMC name. [22] At the time of the merger, Loews operated 198 theaters with 2,235 screens.
In 2005, Cineplex acquired both theatres, with the SilverCity location being its main focus. [13] The SilverCity is now known as Cineplex Cinemas Yonge-Eglinton and VIP, and the Famous Players closed on October 24, 2021. Famous Players Kildonan Place Cinemas opened in 1989 and was the last theatre operating in Manitoba under the brand. It ...
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.