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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 ...
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 ...
The General Cinema Corporation was founded as a drive-in theater in 1935 by Philip Smith, who had previously owned a small chain of silent film theaters.Smith had chosen to open the chain after noticing the increasing sales of local Massachusetts theatres, and the introduction of films that were able to accommodate a synchronized sound and voice track into their reels.
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Genesis The Movie Box 1981–2007 is a box set by Genesis which includes the following DVDs: . Three Sides Live (1981), released before on Betamax, VHS and LaserDisc only;; The Mama Tour (1984), released before on Betamax, VHS and LaserDisc only; featuring "The Making of the Mama Album", a home video filmed by Phil Collins during the making of Genesis.
Carmike Cinemas, Inc. was an American motion picture exhibitor headquartered in Columbus, Georgia.As of March 2016, the company had 276 theaters with 2,954 screens in 41 states, and was the fourth largest movie theater chain in the United States. [1]
The last major studio film to use the Panavision Genesis was the 2012 comedy Ted. Due to lack of demand, Panavision discontinued the Genesis in 2012 and began renting newer cameras such as the Arri Alexa, Sony Cinealta, and Red Digital Cinema cameras, while continuing to develop their own next generation digital camera. In 2016, Panavision ...
In 1915, the tremendous success of The Birth of a Nation helped to establish the popularity of feature films, [6] which forced the owners of five-cent theaters to increase the ticket price to ten cents or more, then either remodel to provide a more comfortable and pleasant environment or relocate to a bigger and better auditorium, bringing the ...