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One of the former Odeon cinemas in Leeds, pictured in May 1980.This is now a Sports Direct branch.. Odeon Cinemas was created in 1928 by Oscar Deutsch.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 ...
The Odeon West End had an exclusive run of The Master from 2 November 2012, playing a 70mm print of the film. The cinema, in its later years, was also the West End base for the annual London Film Festival. The site was sold by Odeon Cinemas to three Irish investors in February 2006, though continued to operate as part of the Odeon chain.
The company was incorporated in London, England, on 22 June 2016, [7] as part of a $1.2 billion takeover of Odeon Cinemas and United Cinemas International by AMC Theatres. The deal left Odeon Cinemas as a wholly owned subsidiary of Odeon Cinemas Group. [8] AMC claimed after the acquisition that it was the "largest movie exhibition company in ...
The BFI IMAX is an IMAX cinema in the South Bank district of London, just north of Waterloo station.It is owned and operated by the British Film Institute.From 2012 until 2022, it was operated by Odeon Cinemas.
The cinema closed on 10 January 2018 with an anticipated reopening in time for the BFI London Film Festival in October—which it failed to meet. The cinema reopened on 21 December 2018 rebranded as part of the Odeon Luxe chain, with a reduced capacity in luxury seats, an enhanced concession offering, and the first commercial Dolby Cinema ...
A film festival, showcasing a selection of new feature and short films from around the world and centred at the VAF, was held from to 2012 to 2017 (excluding 2016). There are 12 cinema screens spread across the 8 screen Odeon, 3 screen Curzon and 1 screen in the firstsite gallery. [citation needed]
This was the first film premiere at the Apollo for more than 20 years. On 4 May 2010, the Italian songwriter Vasco Rossi, had a sold-out concert during his "Tour Europe indoor". The whole concert was recorded and issued on 22 June under the name Vasco London Instant Live 4 May 2010.
The Odeon Marble Arch (known as the Regal from 1928 to 1945) was a cinema in London located opposite Marble Arch, at the top of Park Lane, with its main entrance on Edgware Road. It operated in various forms from 1928 to 2016, and is most famous for once housing a vast screen capable of screening films in 70mm .