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Setting cinemas on fire was a common issue since 1969, while no mosque or sacred place was set on fire at the same time. Farajollah Salahshoor, a religious Iranian filmmaker, said: "We knew well that cinema was a channel for western culture entry, I have burned cinemas like others before the revolution. Unfortunately, after the revolution ...
Cinema Rex was a cinema located at De Keyserlei 15 in Antwerp, Belgium. It opened in 1935 and was designed by Leon Stynen, a Belgian architect, ...
Attacks on cinemas (movie theaters), businesses that contain auditoria for viewing films for public entertainment. Most are commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend by purchasing tickets .
The Rex Cinema may refer to: The Cinema Rex in Abadan, Iran, noted for the 1978 Cinema Rex fire; Cine Rex, a theatre in Antwerp destroyed by a V-2 rocket attack on 16 December 1944; The Rex, Berkhamsted, a Grade II listed cinema in Hertfordshire, England, UK; Rex Cultural Center by B92 in Belgrade, Serbia (formerly Cinema REX)
Similarly, Showcase Cinemas has the same deal: a small popcorn for free with a ticket purchase. Cinemark has its own version of BYOB — Bring Your Own Bucket — on Sunday. For $5, moviegoers can ...
On 19 August 1978, the anniversary of the US-backed coup d'état that had overthrown the nationalist and popular Iranian prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, the Cinema Rex, a movie theatre in Abadan, was set ablaze. The Cinema Rex Fire caused 430 deaths, [22] [nb 2] but more importantly, it was another event that kept the Islamic Revolution ...
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The article puts this sentence in the header, but according to Wikipedia itself, the Cinema Rex fire was the largest terrorist attack until the 1990 massacre of Sri Lankan Police officers, not until 9/11. If there are no objections, I'm going to change the header to reflect this. Thanks. Stavd3 17:05, 7 May 2020 (UTC)