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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 ...
On January 25, 1988, Columbia agreed to acquire USA Cinemas Inc., with 325 screens, for $165 million; the acquisition was closed on March 2. [9] Later in 1988, Loews bought 48 screens in the Washington, D.C. area from Roth Enterprises, M&R Theatres with 70 screens in the Chicago area, and JF Theatres, Inc. with 66 screens in the Baltimore area.
He formed Joseph Mears Cinemas Ltd which built up a group of cinemas around the Richmond area. [4] Several of the cinemas were later sold to Odeon Cinemas, including the Richmond Kinema which became the Odeon Richmond [5] and the Kensington Kinema which similarly became the Odeon Kensington. [4] Mears was Mayor of Richmond from 1931 to 1932.
BFI IMAX, the largest IMAX screen in the U.K., will cease to be operated and programmed by Odeon Cinemas from this summer. The British Film Institute (BFI), which owns the theater, will resume ...
Alliance Cinemas – after selling its BC locations, it now operates only one theater in Toronto; Cinémas Guzzo – 10 locations and 142 screens in the Montreal area; Cineplex Cinemas – Canada's largest and North America's fifth-largest movie theater company, with 162 locations and 1,635 screens
Odeon Cinemas Group Limited [1] is Europe's largest cinema operator. Through subsidiaries it has over 360 cinemas, with 2900 screens in 14 countries in Europe, 120 cinemas with 960 screens are in the UK. [2] It receives more than 2.2 million guests per week. [3] [4] Odeon Cinemas Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of AMC Theatres.
The opening date for a new cinema in Peterborough has been confirmed as 17 November. Work is under way on the 10-screen Odeon Imax cinema in Queensgate shopping centre. The 25,000 sq ft cinema ...
Coat of arms of the Municipal Borough of Richmond: Façade of 70 George Street (the town's former post office) Odeon Cinema Hill Street: 1930: Julian Leathart and W. R. Grainger Grade II [80] Bust of Henry VII: Richmond Lending Library