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Among the changes was the closures of 46 theatres in North America including 21 Loews theatres in the U.S. and 25 Cineplex Odeon theatres in Canada. [18] In 2002, Onex Corporation and Oaktree Capital Management acquired Loews Cineplex from Sony and Universal and the company was filed for initial public offering (IPO).
The Embassy Theatre, also known as the Embassy 1 Theatre, is a former movie theater at 1560 Broadway, along Times Square, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Thomas W. Lamb , the theater opened in 1925 on the ground floor of 1560 Broadway, the headquarters of the Actors' Equity Association .
The Times Square Theater took up most of the facade, though the western section was occupied by the Apollo Theatre's entrance. Inside, the Times Square Theater had a fan-shaped auditorium that could seat 1,155 people. The auditorium was designed in a silver, green, and black color scheme and had a shallow balcony, box seats, and murals. As part ...
Photo of the theatre's interior in 1959. The Loew's State Theatre was a movie theater at 1540 Broadway on Times Square in New York City.Designed by Thomas Lamb in the Adam style, [1] it opened on August 29, 1921, as part of a 16-story office building for the Loew's Theatres company, with a seating capacity of 3,200 [2] and featuring both vaudeville and films.
New York City's Theater District, sometimes spelled Theatre District and officially zoned as the "Theater Subdistrict", [2] is an area and neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan where most Broadway theaters are located, in addition to other theaters, movie theaters, restaurants, hotels, and other places of entertainment.
Loew's Jersey Theatre exterior 2006. Loew's Valencia, Jamaica, Queens. The Loew's Wonder Theatres were movie palaces of the Loew's Theatres chain in and near New York City. These five lavishly designed theaters were built by Loew's to establish its preeminence in film exhibition in the metropolitan New York City area and to serve as the chain's ...
The Paramount Theatre was a 3,664-seat movie palace located at 43rd Street and Broadway on Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Opened in 1926, it was a showcase theatre and the New York headquarters of Paramount Pictures .
The Brandt family operated seven of these theaters, while the Cinema circuit operated the other three. [153] [155] The Brandt theaters included the Selwyn, Apollo, Times Square, Lyric, and Victory theaters on the north side of 42nd Street, [156] [157] as well as the Laff-Movie and the Liberty Theatre on the south side. [155]