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As the Mandarin and the Golden Harvest was a Chinese-language cinema from the late-1970s until it closed. Stanford Theatre Queen and Spadina Early 20th century 1 Teck Theatre Queen and Broadview 1 Tivoli Theatre Yonge and Richmond 1965 1 Site of the first talking film in Toronto in 1928. Towne Cinema Yonge and Bloor 1949 1985 1 Underground Cinema
Odeon Cinemas was founded in 1928 by Oscar Deutsch in Brierley Hill, England. In 1938, the company was bought by J. Arthur Rank, and shortly after this time, a Canadian arm of the business was opened, called Odeon Theatres Canada. Toronto's first Odeon theatre was the Odeon Fairlawn, located at 3320 Yonge Street, and was also designed by Jay ...
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'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.
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 ...
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Humber Cinemas, originally the Odeon Humber Theatre, was a movie theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The theatre was operated by the Odeon and Loews Cineplex chains until 2003. The theatre re-opened as an independent theatre in 2011 and operated until 2019 when it closed permanently. The theatre was located on Bloor Street just west of Jane ...
(Chairman and CEO, Cineplex Odeon Corp.) Owner: Loews Corporation (1959–1985) Perenchio Pictures (1985–1986) Tri-Star Pictures (1986–1987) Sony Pictures Entertainment (1987–2002) Universal Studios (1998–2002) Onex Corporation (2002–2011) Cineplex Entertainment (2003–2006) AMC Theatres (2006) Divisions: Loews Theatres Cineplex ...