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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 ...
Odeon Cinemas Group Limited [1] is Europe's largest cinema operator. Through subsidiaries it has over 360 cinemas, with 2900 screens in 14 countries in Europe, 120 cinemas with 960 screens are in the UK. [2] It receives more than 2.2 million guests per week. [3] [4] Odeon Cinemas Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of AMC Theatres.
In April 2015, the company reached an agreement to buy four cinemas from its larger rival Odeon for £7.1 million. [ 6 ] In August 2013, The Guardian reported that the entire non-management staff of about 100 was employed on zero-hour contracts , earning just above the minimum wage , and without any guaranteed set hours each week.
A new cinema is set to open in a town, in the same building as one which is to close. Odeon is opening at Sixfields Leisure in Weedon Road, Northampton, taking over from Cineworld which will cease ...
PATERSON — The Fabian 8 Cinema, the city's only movie theater, announced that it will close next Sunday, with its manager saying the business never recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Island Cinemas 10, Aquidneck Island’s only multi-screen movie theater, will close in January following the sale of its building. “We have been a part of this community for 30 years, as Holiday ...
Cineplex Odeon Corporation was one of North America's largest movie theatre operators and live theatre, with theatres in its home country of Canada and the United States.The Cineplex Odeon brand is still being used by Cineplex Entertainment at some theatres that were once owned by the Cineplex Odeon Corporation, with newer theatres using the Cineplex Cinemas (French: Cinémas Cineplex) brand.
In 1988 the Odeon was refurbished and made into a 5-screen cinema with a reduced seating capacity of 1,923. The Odeon, which was the last picture palace in the city centre, closed due to competition with local multiplexes and the impending opening of a thirteen screen multiplex at The Light retail and leisure complex originally operated by Ster ...