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Earliest purpose built cinema in Toronto. Bayview Theatre Leaside: 1936 1961 1 Later was a live theatre venue known as the Bayview Playhouse. Now a drug store. Beach Theatre The Beaches: 1919 1970 1 Remodeled into a shopping centre. Cineplex Cinemas Beaches (formally Alliance Atlantis Beaches) 1651 Queen Street East, Queen and Coxwell 1999 ...
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
The Odeon Theatre Toronto was a movie theatre located at 20 Carlton Street in Toronto, Ontario. Designed by architect Jay English and operating between 1949 and 1973, the theatre was the Canadian flagship of Odeon Cinemas and one of Toronto's best examples of Streamline Moderne architecture.
Cineplex's control over the market allowed them to increase prices. They were criticized, including by Mayor Ed Koch, for raising ticket prices from USD$5 to USD$7 in New York City. [42] In April 1998, Cineplex Odeon Theatres merged with New York City-based Loews Theatres (founded in 1904 by Marcus Loew) to form Loews Cineplex Entertainment.
Founded in 1981 on the original premises of the historic Odeon Theatre—which was operated between 1949 and 1973 as the Canadian flagship of Odeon Cinemas—the Carlton Cinema became the first multiplex in Toronto to focus on art-house content. [3] It ran continuously for 28 years before being closed in 2009 by Cineplex Odeon. [3]
Cineplex Inc. (formerly Cineplex Entertainment and Cineplex Galaxy) is a Canadian operator of movie theater and family entertainment centers, headquartered in Toronto.It is the largest cinema chain in Canada; as of 2019, it operated 165 locations, and accounted for 75% of the domestic box office.
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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 ...