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O 2 Academy Bournemouth is a live entertainment venue in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. It is a grade-II listed building. It is a grade-II listed building. The building at 568–578 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, was opened as a theatre on 27 May 1895, named the Grand Pavilion Theatre.
Virgin Cinemas was founded in 1995 when Richard Branson's Virgin Group acquired MGM Cinemas, [7] [8] Virgin Group bought the cinemas (numbering 116 at the time) for £195m, and subsequently sold 90 of the chain's remaining non-multiplex cinemas to Cinven for £70m to concentrate on multiplexes.
In 1908, the Bournemouth Tramway accident killed 7 people in the town centre. The COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom has affected business in the town centre. [3] The New Look store in the town centre will close in February 2022 after 21 years. [4] The Wilko will close the same month. [5]
February 2017: A new complex called BH2 opened in the town centre, housing a state of the art multiplex cinema, with an I-sense experience and other cinemas with reclining seats. [15] The complex also houses at least 12 restaurants and an underground car park for up to 250 cars.
Cinemax schedules movies for 20-24 hours daily on its main channel and 24 hours on its multiplex channels. Since June 2000, new theatrical and original movies have premiered every Sunday at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT. First-run films typically debut 10 months to a year after their theatrical release and within six months of DVD or VOD release. [64] [65] [66]
The following month, councillors voted in favour of demolition. [10] Seats from the building were donated to the Shelley Theatre in Boscombe. [11] [12] Demolition began in February 2013. [13] The site was initially used as an outdoor events venue. [14] On 31 July 2019, a crazy golf course called Smuggler's Cove opened on the site. [15]
The former Gaumont State Cinema in Kilburn, London, opened in 1937. Gaumont-British were the first large British cinema chain controlling 180 cinemas by 1928 and up to 300 the following year. Fox Film Corporation indirectly acquired shares in the company to help with the expansion. [8] Gaumont-British developed or acquired large "super-cinemas".
Richmond Hill is an area of Bournemouth, Dorset, England. [1] It is to the north of Bournemouth Town Centre , south of Richmond Park and west of Lansdowne . [ 2 ] The area is located around the road of the same name.