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The Odeon Luxe Leicester Square is a prominent cinema building in the West End of London. Built in the Art Deco style and completed in 1937, the building has been continually altered in response to developments in cinema technology, and was the first Dolby Cinema in the United Kingdom.
The Odeon Luxe West End is a two-screen cinema [1] on the south side of Leicester Square, London. It has historically been used for smaller film premieres and hosting the annual BFI London Film Festival. The site is on an adjacent side of the square to the much larger flagship Odeon Luxe Leicester Square.
Odeon Cinemas heralded a triumphant return to film on Thursday evening with the re-opening of their new theatre, Odeon West End Luxe. Situated on Leicester Square (just a stone’s throw from ...
The Odeon Leicester Square, on the site of the old Alhambra theatre, is the cinema with the most seats in a single screen in the United Kingdom. [41] Similar to Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood , the square was surrounded by floor mounted plaques with film stars' names and cast handprints.
In recent years, the British Film Institute (BFI) London Film Festival has become synonymous with the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, with many of the two-week festival’s screenings taking place in ...
Cineworld (Empire) Leicester Square: IMAX 295 m 2: 380 m 2: 2 x IMAX Laser (4K each) IMAX 12ch BFI IMAX: IMAX 280 m 2: 365 m 2: 1 x IMAX single-laser (CoLa) (4K); 1 x traditional 15/70mm IMAX projector; 1 x Christie (4K) Laser projector 1 x Century JJ 35mm/70mm projector IMAX 12ch; Dolby Digital; DTS Science Museum: IMAX: The Ronson Theatre 247 ...
The Empire Theatre opened on 17 April 1884 under the ownership of Daniel Nicols as a West End variety theatre on Leicester Square, as well as a ballet venue, with a capacity of about 2,000 seats. The first performance was Chilpéric , with music by Hervé , adapted by H. Hersee and H. B. Farnie and described as a Grand Musical Spectacular, in ...
Odeon cinema in Reading, Berkshire in 1945 with filmgoers outside queuing for tickets. Odeon Cinemas was created in 1928 by entrepreneur Oscar Deutsch. [5] 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 ...