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Earliest purpose built cinema in Toronto. Bayview Theatre Leaside: 1936 1961 1 Later was a live theatre venue known as the Bayview Playhouse. Now a drug store. Beach Theatre The Beaches: 1919 1970 1 Remodeled into a shopping centre. Cineplex Cinemas Beaches (formally Alliance Atlantis Beaches) 1651 Queen Street East, Queen and Coxwell 1999 ...
The Cumberland 4 Cinemas location in Yorkville, Toronto was shut down in May 2012. [11] This left the company with only the Beaches Cinemas location left. On January 1, 2019, Alliance Cinemas officially "joined" the Cineplex brand of movie theatres and now requires patrons to purchase tickets on cineplex.com or in the theatre.
Cineplex Inc. (formerly Cineplex Entertainment and Cineplex Galaxy) is a Canadian operator of movie theater and family entertainment centers, headquartered in Toronto. It is the largest cinema chain in Canada; as of 2019, it operated 165 locations, and accounted for 75% of the domestic box office.
In September 1997, Cineplex Odeon Corporation announced that it would merge with Loews Theatres for $1 billion; the merger was later approved by the United States Department of Justice on April 16, 1998 and was later completed that year to form Loews Cineplex Entertainment, thus making it a joint venture between Sony and Universal Studios.
Fox Theatre inside in 2023. The Fox Theatre was built in 1914, making it the second-oldest cinema that is still in use in Toronto, after the Revue Cinema, [5] which was built in 1912 and later closed in 2006, [6] before re-opening in 2007; [7] as a result of this, the Fox Theatre is the oldest continuously operating cinema in Toronto.
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.
In 2010, the company acquired the Carlton Cinemas theatre in downtown Toronto, a historic venue for independent and arthouse films which was closed by Cineplex Odeon in fall 2009. [5] The theatre reopened as part of the Magic Lantern chain on June 30, 2010 with a two-day program of free films, including Crazy Heart , Chloe , A Single Man ...
The Scotiabank Theatre Toronto (formerly Paramount Theatre Toronto) is a major movie theatre at the RioCan Hall in the Entertainment District of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada at Richmond and John Street owned by Cineplex Entertainment for the building and the lands owned by RioCan. [2]