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Cathay became a household name in Singapore and Malaysia by the 1970s, where the chain owned and operated 75 cinemas at its peak. [4] This included Singapore's only open-air drive-in cinema, the Jurong Drive-in, which opened on 14 July 1971. [5] The drive-in cinema could accommodate 900 cars and an additional 300 people in its walk-in gallery.
In 2000, it was closed and partially demolished for redevelopment. Elements of the old Cathay Cinema, including its façade which was conserved as a national monument, together with a modern-day design by Paul Tange of Tange Associates Japan and RDC Architects Pte Ltd Singapore, were incorporated into the new building.
Major cinema chains announced that they will reopen their doors from July 13, following an announcement from the Infocomm Media Development Authority. Singapore Cinemas Poised to Reopen With ...
This is a list of cinemas in Singapore.All of Singapore's cinemas are fully digital, with the majority of them equipped with Dolby Surround 7.1 speakers. Most movies are presented in Mandarin Chinese subtitles along with English subtitles for non-English language films, though options for English subtitles-only films are also offered.
The pop up cinema remained open until the end of June 2023. [11] In 2023, it was announced that The Projector and Golden Village will collaborate to operate a cinema, Golden Village X The Projector, at Cineleisure Orchard, after Cathay Cineplex stopped its cinema operation at the building at the end of June. [11] The new cinema opened in ...
It was the first drive-in in Singapore. [3] On the opening night, the cinema screened the 1970 British comedy film Doctor in Trouble. During which the theatre was filled with around 880 cars, with an additional 300 patrons occupying the viewing gallery. [1] Tickets were priced at $30 per car with a maximum of five passengers.
The role of Singapore as a film making hub for Malaya and Singapore (later merging into Malaysia) declined with the three-way standoffs between film unions, Shaw Brothers Studio and Lee Kuan Yew's government driving its superstar P. Ramlee northward to Kuala Lumpur to start his own production studio in 1964. [6]
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