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Newcastle Odeon was a 2,602-seat cinema located in Pilgrim Street in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It opened as the Paramount Theatre on September 7, 1931 before being purchased by Odeon Cinemas on November 27, 1939 and renamed the Odeon on 22nd April 1940. During the 1960s and 1970s it was also used for pop and rock concerts.
The cinema obtained a temporary lease at Gateshead's Old Town Hall, which allowed the cinema to screen films in a single theatre under the Tyneside Cinema brand. [2] Themed screenings were held across Newcastle to allow the public access to the Tyneside Cinema experience as work on the restoration project continued.
There were already six cinemas in Newcastle by the time the Theatre was converted to a picture house. The Stoll Picture Theatre opened on 2 June 1919 with an opening presentation of ‘Tarzan of the Apes’. The Stoll Picture Theatre was the first cinema in Newcastle to show ‘talkies’. [12]
Pages in category "Films set in Newcastle upon Tyne" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
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 Gate has 19 venues spread across three floors, including a 16-screen Cineworld cinema and Aspers Casino. The Gate is also next to Newcastle's Chinatown ; there is an entrance on Stowell Street. The Gate building was built to replace the 35-year-old, 7-storey Newgate House, which was home to the prolific music venue; The Mayfair club .
Newcastle has multiple independent cinemas, including the famous Tyneside Cinema, [185] located on Pilgrim Street. It originally opened as the 'Bijou News-Reel Cinema' in 1937, and was designed and built by Dixon Scott, great-uncle of film directors Ridley Scott [ 184 ] and Tony Scott .
Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, in Paris, France; Odeon Theatre (disambiguation), the name of several theatres Odeon Cinemas, a cinema brand name in the UK, Ireland and Norway