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The Savoy is the most altered cinema in Dublin's history, [citation needed] and in 1969 the cinema was converted into a twin cinema. In 1975, the Savoy's restaurant was converted into a third screen, holding 200 seats, followed in 1979 by further sub-divisions, creating five screens in all. In 1988, the cinema was given its sixth screen.
It is owned by Savoy Cinemas. It was opened on 7 November 1935 by Lenton Picture House Ltd, a consortium of local businessmen. It had seating for 1,242. The first film was Flirtation Walk with Dick Powell. The interior of the Savoy Cinema was itself used as a setting for part of the famous 1960 film by Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday ...
The cinema opened on 1 August 1930, still under the Savoy brand (and known as the Savoy Cinema Theatre), [7] showing new releases Loose Ends and Not So Quiet on the Western Front. Films typically received a one-week run and were changed on Fridays, although major hits such as All Quiet on the Western Front and King of Jazz were shown for longer.
The cinema opened in August 1949 with the premiere of The Jolson Story. It was initially owned and operated by C. V. de Silva, who named it after the Savoy Theatre in London. The original building had a small bookshop in the foyer and a number of shops that faced Galle Road, including a clothes shop and the Savoy Emporium, which dealt in ...
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This purchase united the industry's two biggest online movie-ticketing services (Fandango's ticketing network spanned more than 33,000 screens worldwide; MovieTickets.com's over 29,000, with significant overlap between the two, e.g., both companies sold tickets to both AMC and Regal Cinemas) and increased Fandango's global screen count by ...
Cineplex Odeon Films was the Canadian distributor for Savoy films, then Alliance Films became the Canadian distributor after New Line Cinema picked up the later films from 1996. Much of Savoy's library now lies with Universal Pictures and Focus Features , with the exceptions of a few select titles, most likely as a result of Diller selling off ...
Omniplex Cinemas is a cinema chain which started in the Republic of Ireland in 1991. Following this they expanded to Derry in Northern Ireland in 1993. In late 2023, it entered the markets in England and Scotland by acquiring the former Empire Cinemas after their bankruptcy.