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Empire Leicester Square, pictured in 2004 with the old signage. Empire Cinemas Limited was a multiplex cinema chain in the UK.Prior to the company entering administration in July 2023, there were 13 Empire Cinemas across the country, with 128 screens in total.
Most of the theatre was demolished in 1927, with the Empire rebuilt as a film theatre on an expanded site with the auditorium block now extending East to Leicester Place; the architect was Thomas W. Lamb with assistance from F. W. Boettcher and Frederick G. M. Chancellor of Frank Matcham and Company as the local architect, [9] and the Anglo ...
The Royal Cinema, originally the Odeon Cinema and later the Empire Cinema, is a cinema in Maney, Sutton Coldfield in West Midlands, England. Built in 1936, it is notable for its Art Deco style. It is a Grade II listed building. [1] After the Empire closed in 2020, it opened after refurbishment as the Royal Cinema in July 2024. [2]
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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 ...
Also known as the Empire Theatre, and Empire Pictures, [1] and open since 1915, [2] it is the oldest continuously running cinema in mainland Australia. [3] At times over the years, the title has defaulted to New Empire [4] and there have been similarly named establishments in other Australian states. [5] [6]
Omniplex Cinemas is a cinema chain which started in the Republic of Ireland in 1991. Following this they expanded to Derry in Northern Ireland in 1993. In late 2023, it entered the markets in England and Scotland by acquiring the former Empire Cinemas after their bankruptcy.
Empire Cinemas multiplex cinema chain with 14 locations and 131 screens; Empire Palace Theatre, later simply the Empire Theatre and now the Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh; Empire Theatre of Varieties, now the Empire, Leicester Square, City of Westminster, London; Empire Theatre of Varieties, Belfast, Victoria Square (1894 bis 1961)