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The Carib Theatre, also known as the Carib 5, is a cinema in northern Kingston, Jamaica. Opened in 1938, it has been owned and operated by the Palace Amusement Company since ca. 1939. The Carib was the largest and highest-grossing theatre in the West Indies, and was once Jamaica's largest building.
Cross Roads Police Station. [4]Cross Roads Bus Station - a major transport hub for buses and taxis. [4]Cross Roads Post Office. [4]Cross Roads Market. [4]Carib 5 - a five-screen multiplex cinema since 1997 but originally a 1,750-seat facility designed by John Pike and opening in 1938.
Cinema of Jamaica Despite Jamaica never having a very strong film industry, the island has produced notable films from the 1970s onwards. The most critically acclaimed film is The Harder They Come (1972), by Perry Henzell , which received international acclaim.
Cineplex Inc. (formerly Cineplex Entertainment and Cineplex Galaxy) is a Canadian operator of movie theater and family entertainment centers, headquartered in Toronto. It is the largest cinema chain in Canada; as of 2019, it operated 165 locations, and accounted for 75% of the domestic box office.
For example, in the 1970s, only a few films were made in Guadeloupe, Haiti and Jamaica. [1] In the 1970s and prior to this time, the Caribbean generally lacked an infrastructure for filmmaking and film distribution. [1] In contemporary times, the cinema of the Caribbean has been described as an "expanded and ever-expanding field."
Playdium Movie Magic was a DVD video rental shop that operated using automated retail kiosks. [15] It launched in early 2011 and closed in late 2016. Competitors included Le SuperClub Vidéotron, Redbox and Zip.ca kiosks.
A Cinépolis theater at Plaza Sendero Ecatepec in Ecatepec de Morelos. Enrique Ramírez Miguel founded Organización Ramírez© in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico in 1971. Years before, the company opened the first cinema in the city of Salamanca the company was rebranded as Cinematográfica Cadena de Oro, S.A., opening theaters in Acámbaro and Guanajuato.
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 ...