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Odeon cinema in Reading, Berkshire in 1945 with filmgoers outside queuing for tickets. Odeon Cinemas was created in 1928 by entrepreneur Oscar Deutsch. [5] 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 ...
Thistle Hotels, a subsidiary of the Clermont Hotel Group, is a UK-based hotel company with a portfolio of 8 Central London hotels, one at London Heathrow and one in nerby Bedfordshire, [1] operating in the three and four star sector.
Clermont Hotel Group is the largest owner-operator hotel management company in London with over 5,000 hotel rooms. [3] As of 2024, it operates properties under the following four hotel brands: [4] The Clermont (3) Guoman Hotels (2) Thistle Hotels (9) Thistle Express (1)
A new set of plans for a hotel were approved by Westminster Council on 21 January 2014, [11] and the Odeon West End closed on 1 January 2015. The final films were The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 , showing in screen 1 upstairs (489-seats) and Interstellar , showing in screen 2 downstairs (814-seats).
The Washburn Square–Leicester Common Historic District encompasses the historic civic heart of Leicester, Massachusetts.It includes Washburn Square, as the town common is called; the buildings along its perimeter; and the properties along Main Street extending east along Main Street to its junction with Henshaw Street.
It was renamed the Odeon West End in 1988 and was earmarked for demolition in 2014, to be replaced by a ten-storey hotel including a two-screen cinema. [55] The new cinema opened in 2021 as the Odeon Luxe West End. [56] The Odeon Leicester Square, which dominates the east side of the square, hosts many film premieres.
Athena is a Grade II-listed events venue in the cultural quarter of Leicester City Centre, England.Built originally as an Odeon Cinema in 1936, it closed for most of the 1990s and remained vacant up until 2005, where the building was restored as a multi-discipline events venue.
The first Dolby Cinema system to be installed in the UK is at the Odeon in Leicester Square. [14] This introduced a combination of Dolby Vision dual-laser projection system and a Dolby Atmos sound system. The Odeon is the largest single-screen cinema in the United Kingdom and one of the few with its circle and stalls remaining intact.