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The Times Square Business Improvement District opened a visitor center in the Selwyn's lobby in April 1996, [242] [243] and Jujamcyn again considered leasing the theater at that time. [244] Though Jujamcyn was a for-profit operator, the New York City government had specified that the Selwyn operate as a nonprofit venue. [ 245 ]
In August 2015, Vue International acquired JT Bioscopen, the second-largest cinema chain in the Netherlands, bringing Vue's number of sites to over 200. [13] In June 2018, Vue acquired the Irish operator Showtime Cinemas, adding a further two cinemas to their estate in the United Kingdom and Ireland, now totalling 89 cinemas. [14]
The Booth Theatre building takes up 90 feet (27 m) of the Shubert Alley frontage. [7] [8] The Booth is part of the largest concentration of Broadway theaters on a single block. [9] The adjoining block of 45th Street is also known as George Abbott Way, [10] and foot traffic on the street increases box-office totals for the theaters there. [11]
The term "box office" was being used from at least 1741, deriving from the office from which tickets for theatre boxes were sold (although the use of "box" for a private section from which to watch the play was in use in 1609); this is the derivation favoured by the Oxford English Dictionary. [6]
The following table lists known estimated box office ticket sales for various high-grossing films that have sold at least 100 million tickets worldwide. Note that some of the data are incomplete due to a lack of available admissions data from a number of box office territories. Therefore, it is not an exhaustive list of all the highest-grossing ...
In Canada, the total operating revenue in the movie theater industry was $1.7 billion in 2012, an 8.4% increase from 2010. This increase was mainly the result of growth in box office and concession revenue. Combined, these accounted for 91.9% of total industry operating revenue. [76]
London's TKTS, originally known as "The Half Price Ticket Booth", is run by the Society of London Theatre on behalf of the theatre industry. Operating since 1980 in the heart of Leicester Square, this discounted ticket booth offers customers a wide choice of discount theatre tickets on the day of the performance and in advance. There are also ...
The cinema chain also operated in Taiwan, opening a cinema in a shopping mall named Warner Village Cinema Centre in Taipei. In 2005 it was bought out and renamed Vieshow Cinemas [ zh ] . In October 2009, the Italian franchise of Warner Village was bought by the Benetton Group and merged with Mediaset 's Medusa Multicinema to create The Space ...