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Earliest purpose built cinema in Toronto. Bayview Theatre Leaside: 1936 1961 1 Later was a live theatre venue known as the Bayview Playhouse. Now a drug store. Beach Theatre The Beaches: 1919 1970 1 Remodeled into a shopping centre. Cineplex Cinemas Beaches (formally Alliance Atlantis Beaches) 1651 Queen Street East, Queen and Coxwell 1999 ...
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 Strand Theatre opened in 1916 and has been showing movies ever since in this Ohio college town. The single-screen cinema was expanded to a twin-plex in 1982, and the balcony was converted into ...
The Revue Cinema is a cinema in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built between late-1911 and early-1912, it is a designated 'heritage' site and is Toronto's oldest standing movie theatre in use for showing movies. When news of its closure became public, a grass-roots community movement sprang up in order to save the cinema.
The State Theatre, located in a rural community about 30 miles outside of Iowa City, is the oldest continually operating movie theater in the world. While theaters, which closed from coast to ...
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 Donlands Theatre was designed in 1946 by Toronto-based theatre specialist Herbert G. Duerr. [4] [21] Kaplan & Sprachman, another study specializing in theatres, contributed to later renovations. [1] [22] The Donlands is an exemple of modern theatrical architecture, [1] although it also incorporated art deco touches. [23]
This sale took place in 2008, when Key Brand Entertainment agreed to sell the Canon Theatre to Mirvish. [18] As part of the sale, Mirvish also acquired the 700-seat Panasonic Theatre. Although the sale of Canon Theatre was challenged by Aubrey Dan, Mirvish won the protracted legal battle, ultimately giving Mirvish two Yonge Street theatres. [19 ...