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IMAX Sydney is an IMAX movie theatre in Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia. It is the second largest IMAX theatre in the Southern Hemisphere, [a] and the third largest in the world. [b] It is operated by Event Cinemas and is located within The Ribbon. It features IMAX's dual laser projector. [1]
The Ribbon in February 2022. The building has 588 rooms and suites and includes a rooftop heated infinity pool and wet deck with a two-storey bar, several other bars, a spa, a BTWN restaurant, meeting rooms and a 325-seat cinema with the third-largest operating movie theatre screen in the world with a slightly curved IMAX screen that is 692 square metres (7,450 sq ft) or 29 m × 24 m (95 ft × ...
Ace Cinemas, operated by The Movie Masters Cinema Group: Sydney: Dendy Cinemas: Sydney: 4: Event Cinemas: Sydney: 62: Previously known as Greater Union, Birch, Carroll & Coyle and Village Cinemas: Grand Cinemas (operated by The Movie Masters Cinema Group) Perth: 6: Ace Cinemas and Grand Cinemas Hoyts: Sydney: 38: Owned by Wanda Cinemas: Palace ...
In 1945, the last year of World War II, there was a box office boom and the British Rank Organisation purchased a half share in Greater Union Theatres. During this time Greater Union acquired the rights of ownership of many theatres across the country including what became the Phoenician Club in Broadway, Sydney in 1943, originally owned by McIntyre's Broadway Theatres and established as a ...
Sydney : Currency Press, 1991. ISBN 0-86819-292-9. Moran, Albert and Errol Vieth. Historical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Cinema. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8108-5459-7; O'Regan, Tom. Australian National Cinema. London: Routledge, 1996. Reade, Eric. Australian Silent Films: A Pictorial History of Silent Films from ...
The former Cinema City McGillivray in Winnipeg now plays first-run films and was renamed Cineplex Odeon McGillivray and VIP Cinemas in 2012. The Cinema City Movies 12 in Edmonton closed on January 8, 2023, due to age and unpopularity, and the Cineplex Cinemas Manning Town Centre up north outperformed it as well.
As of 2019, EVT owns the largest cinema chains in Australia and New Zealand. Its cinema brands include Event Cinemas, BCC, CineStar, Greater Union, GU Film House, Moonlight Cinema, and the Sydney State Theatre. Event also owns over 60 hotels worldwide, operating more than 10,000 rooms, under the subsidiaries Atura Hotels, Rydges Hotels ...
In September 1997, Cineplex Odeon Corporation announced that it would merge with Loews Theatres for $1 billion; the merger was later approved by the United States Department of Justice on April 16, 1998 and was later completed that year to form Loews Cineplex Entertainment, thus making it a joint venture between Sony and Universal Studios.