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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 ...
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.
Don Mills Don Mills and Lawrence Ave (Don Mill Shopping Centre) 1 Downtown Theatre Yonge and Dundas 1948 1972 1 Current site of Yonge-Dundas Square. Dufferin Drive-In Dufferin and Steeles 1950 1984 1 Eastwood Theatre 1430 Gerrard Street East (near Ashdale Avenue) 1927 1985 1 Later was the Naaz [6] and then the India Centre mall. [7]
Cineplex Odeon Corporation was one of North America's largest movie theatre operators and live theatre, with theatres in its home country of Canada and the United States.The Cineplex Odeon brand is still being used by Cineplex Entertainment at some theatres that were once owned by the Cineplex Odeon Corporation, with newer theatres using the Cineplex Cinemas (French: Cinémas Cineplex) brand.
Empire Theatres Limited was a movie theater chain in Canada, a subsidiary of Empire Company Ltd., the holding company of the Sobey family conglomerate.. In June 2013, Empire announced it would exit the movie theatre business, selling the vast majority of locations to Cineplex (24 in Atlantic Canada) and Landmark Cinemas (23, in Ontario and western Canada, including two locations originally ...
On December 13, 1996, AMC opened the Ontario Mills 30, a 30-screen theater in Ontario, California, which at the time was the largest multiplex in the world. [25] [16] AMC Theatres' megaplex theatres were a success overseas as well.
The Oakville Entertainment Centrum is a large regional shopping mall located at the northwest corner of The Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) & Winston Churchill Blvd. in Oakville, Ontario. [7] Its anchor tenants are the Cineplex Odeon Cinema, Homewood Suites by Hilton and Dave & Buster's. The plaza contains entertainment venues, such as Putting Edge ...
Odeon Cinemas was founded in 1928 by Oscar Deutsch in Brierley Hill, England. In 1938, the company was bought by J. Arthur Rank, and shortly after this time, a Canadian arm of the business was opened, called Odeon Theatres Canada. Toronto's first Odeon theatre was the Odeon Fairlawn, located at 3320 Yonge Street, and was also designed by Jay ...