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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 ...
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.
The cinema is situated at the corner of Tufnell Park Road and Holloway Road. It was designed by C. Howard Crane, an American architect resident in London in the 1930s. It was a project of Hyams and Gale, who also built Gaumont State Cinema in Kilburn, London, and is similarly large, originally seating 3,006 in one auditorium.
The upper floor which faces towards London Road contained the Athenaeum reading room. The final cost for the construction of the Corn Exchange was estimated to be just over £6,000. [3] The opening of the Corn Exchange was commemorated by two performances conducted by the Kilmarnock Philharmonic Society of Judas Maccabaeus (Handel) by Thomas ...
[1] [2] [3] The listing text comments that it is "One of only three surviving 'atmospheric' interiors in Britain, the others being The Academy, Brixton, and The Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park." [1] Screens 4 to 7 of Odeon Richmond are in a separate building on Red Lion Street, a former billiard hall which opened as Odeon Studios in 1992. [2] [4]
In 1967 a local attorney named Porter Byrum bought Park Road Shopping Center. On June 16, 2011 Mr. Byrum announced that Park Road Shopping Center would be donated to 3 local colleges (Queens University of Charlotte, Wingate University, and Wake Forest University). [2] Mr. Byrum had held ownership of the shopping center for nearly 44 years.
Atlas Cinemas on Thursday reopened the 10-screen former Cinemark movie theater in Barrington Plaza, 140 Barrington Town Square Drive. For showtimes and tickets, check out atlascinemas.net .
While this was happening, the divested smaller ABC cinemas gained a stablemate under Cinven; in 2000 Cinven bought over the one-time rival chain of Odeon Cinemas for £280 million from Rank Group plc [9] [10] and most of the 60 remaining ABC Cinemas, which were mostly older, town centre cinemas, were rebranded as Odeon or were closed as the ...