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The Savoy is the most altered cinema in Dublin's history, [citation needed] and in 1969 the cinema was converted into a twin cinema. In 1975, the Savoy's restaurant was converted into a third screen, holding 200 seats, followed in 1979 by further sub-divisions, creating five screens in all. In 1988, the cinema was given its sixth screen.
Savoy Cinema was built in 1935 to designs by the architect Reginald Cooper. It is built in the art-deco style with a curved front. It is owned by Savoy Cinemas. It was opened on 7 November 1935 by Lenton Picture House Ltd, a consortium of local businessmen. It had seating for 1,242. The first film was Flirtation Walk with Dick Powell.
Cineplex Odeon Films was the Canadian distributor for Savoy films, then Alliance Films became the Canadian distributor after New Line Cinema picked up the later films from 1996. Much of Savoy's library now lies with Universal Pictures and Focus Features, with the exceptions of a few select titles, most likely as a result of Diller selling off ...
The company's flagship is the Savoy Cinema in O'Connell Street, Dublin, which is the oldest operational cinema in Dublin, and the preferred cinema in Ireland for film premières. It also owned the Screen Cinema in D'Olier Street, which showed more alternative films but closed down in 2015.
The cinema opened on 1 August 1930, still under the Savoy brand (and known as the Savoy Cinema Theatre), [7] showing new releases Loose Ends and Not So Quiet on the Western Front. Films typically received a one-week run and were changed on Fridays, although major hits such as All Quiet on the Western Front and King of Jazz were shown for longer.
Savoy Cinema, Colombo also known as Savoy 3D Cinema and Savoy 2 is a prominent cinema in Sri Lanka located on Galle Road in Wellawatte, Colombo, just near the old Dutch canal. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The building is owned and run by EAP Films and Theatres Private Limited.
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Chain logos. Ward Anderson was a cinema chain in Ireland until 2013. [1] It was the largest chain in Ireland and operated cinemas throughout Ireland and Northern Ireland.It was not a single company but was a group of companies such as Provincial Cinemas Ltd., the Dublin Cinema Group, the Green Group, and so on, owned by its founders, half brothers Leo Ward (born 1919) and Kevin Anderson (born ...