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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 ...
The company was incorporated in London, England, on 22 June 2016, [7] as part of a $1.2 billion takeover of Odeon Cinemas and United Cinemas International by AMC Theatres. The deal left Odeon Cinemas as a wholly owned subsidiary of Odeon Cinemas Group. [8] AMC claimed after the acquisition that it was the "largest movie exhibition company in ...
The cinema was built by Harry Weedon and Partners for the Odeon Cinemas company of Oscar Deutsch.There were 1,272 seats in the stalls and 668 in the circle. The opening on 11 September 1937 was attended by Oscar Deutsch and the Mayor of Wolverhampton Sir Charles Mander, and the first film shown was Dark Journey.
Oscar Deutsch (12 August 1893 – 5 December 1941) [1] was a British entrepreneur who was the founder of Odeon Cinemas, the largest cinema chain in the United Kingdom. He opened his first cinema in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire in 1928, with the chain's flagship cinema, the Odeon, Leicester Square in London, opening in 1937.
Cineplex Odeon, a cinema theatre brand of Cineplex Entertainment List of Cineplex Entertainment movie theatres Hammersmith Odeon, now the Hammersmith Apollo , in London, England
The Vue and Odeon cinema chains are gradually reopening their doors in England and Ireland. Beginning with 30 locations, starting Dec. 11, Vue is also set to reopen doors. England’s second ...
Seating in the cinema. London has another traditional IMAX cinema at the Science Museum in South Kensington and in December 2008 gained IMAX digital cinemas at Odeon cinemas in Greenwich and Wimbledon. In 2011, a digital IMAX screen was also opened at the Odeon in Swiss Cottage.
The cinema was quickly bought for the Odeon group and Weedon was appointed to oversee all of the group's designs. [8] Between Weedon's appointment in 1934 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939 the Weedon office was to design or act as consultant architect to over 250 of Deutsch's cinemas. Not all of these were designed by the practice itself ...