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The Embassy Cinema is a former cinema in the town of Chadwell Heath, Greater London. [1] It was once known, among locals, as The Gaumont. It was designed in an art deco style, with a streamline moderne interior, by Harry Weston in 1934. The building is situated on the border of Redbridge and Barking & Dagenham, in the Chadwell Heath District ...
In the early 1960s it was renamed the DeMille Theatre, and became a venue for viewing premium 70mm films with reserved seating. In 1976 the theater was split into three separate and very narrow cinemas, and was known as the Embassy 2-3-4 Theatre until 1997, and then the Embassy 1-2-3 Theatre until finally closing in the early 2000s.
The Embassy Theatre, also known as the Embassy 1 Theatre, is a former movie theater at 1560 Broadway, along Times Square, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Thomas W. Lamb , the theater opened in 1925 on the ground floor of 1560 Broadway, the headquarters of the Actors' Equity Association .
Most of these theaters now operate as AMC Classic as of July 2017. On March 3, 2016, AMC announced its intent to acquire Carmike Cinemas in a $1.1 billion deal, pending regulatory and shareholder approval, which would allow it to overtake Regal as the United States' largest movie theater chain. [143] The merger officially closed in December ...
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.
Management rights were sold to SKYCITY Cinemas in October 2005, [citation needed] and is now part of AHL owned Event Cinemas. [5] The building is recognised as a place of historical/cultural significance by Heritage New Zealand [6] and is the only custom-built 1920s cinema still in use in New Zealand. [3]
Nelson Entertainment (also known as Nelson Entertainment Group) was a Los Angeles-based film production and home video distribution company, a subsidiary of Nelson Holdings International Ltd., a Vancouver, Canada, holding company formed in 1985 by British film producer Barry Spikings and Richard Northcott, a British financier who amassed his fortune from a chain of hardware and furniture stores.
The company was founded in 1942 [1] by Joseph E. Levine, initially to distribute foreign films in the United States.The company entered film production in 1945, co-producing with Maxwell Finn the documentary Gaslight Follies, a compilation of silent film clips narrated by Ben Grauer.