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In August 2015, Vue International acquired JT Bioscopen, the second-largest cinema chain in the Netherlands, bringing Vue's number of sites to over 200. [13] In June 2018, Vue acquired the Irish operator Showtime Cinemas, adding a further two cinemas to their estate in the United Kingdom and Ireland, now totalling 89 cinemas. [14]
There are 137 movie theaters and 31 arthouse cinemas in the Netherlands, with a total of ca. 675 screens, [1] in addition to 79 small arthouse cinemas and a number of adult movie theaters. The main movie theater chains in the Netherlands are Pathé, VUE and Kinepolis.
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The cinema featured designs never before incorporated into a UK cinema such as the screen design, lighting and the walls quilted with mahogany and fawn to give the maximum in acoustic results. [3] It opened on 12 October 1938 showing The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn. [2] The cinema was refurbished in 1964. [4]
It closed as a cinema on 1 January 2015. After extensive asbestos removal, the entire site was demolished the same year. [2] It reopened in September 2021 as an Odeon Luxe cinema, following a £300 million redevelopment of the site that also includes a luxury hotel. It is London's second Dolby Cinema. [3] [4] [5]
In 1946, 20th Century Fox offered $25,000 for the film rights to A Room with a View, but Forster did not hold cinema in high regard and refused although the studio was willing to pay him even more. [5] Following Forster's death in 1970, the board of fellows of King's College, Cambridge, inherited the rights to his books. [6]
It operated from 1986 to 2006, with Village Roadshow's headquarters located in the upper levels (the HQ has since been relocated to The Jam Factory near their other cinemas). Some of its opening movies were Short Circuit and The Color Purple. This building has since being redeveloped and renamed as, '206 Bourke Street.' [4] [5] [6] [7]
The script was written by Lillian Hellman and Mordaunt Shairp, adapted from the play by Guy Bolton. It was directed by Sidney Franklin, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and released by United Artists. A silent film version of the same play, also produced by Goldwyn, was released in 1925 and is now a lost film. [2]