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The Carthay Circle Theater opened at 6316 San Vicente Boulevard on May 18, 1926, with a showing of The Volga Boatman (1926), [1] and was considered developer J. Harvey McCarthy's most successful monument, a stroke of shrewd thinking that made a famous name of the newly developed Carthay Center neighborhood [2] [3] in Los Angeles, California. [4]
Shanghai is a 2010 American neo-noir [3] political thriller film directed by Mikael Håfström, starring John Cusack and Gong Li. It was released in China on June 17, 2010. The film had a limited release in the United States on October 2, 2015 to negative reviews, with criticism for its direction and story. It also performed poorly at the box ...
The theater, site of film premieres including Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (their first full-length animated film) and the West Coast premiere of Gone with the Wind, inspired the community to change the name from “Carthay Center” to “Carthay Circle.” [5] The theater was demolished in 1969 [7] to make way for a new office ...
The logo of Cathay Cineplexes in Singapore. Cathay Cineplexes is a cinema chain established in 1939 in Singapore. The Cineplexes started as Cathay Cinema as Singapore's first air-conditioned cinema and first to screen American and British films in Singapore. The company is owned and operated by Singapore-listed media conglomerate mm2 ...
Charles Henry Gonda (22 June 1889 – 1 April 1969), professionally known as C. H. Gonda, was a Hungarian architect famous for his ultra-modern style of building.He was active in Shanghai throughout the 1920s–1940s and began working on his first project, the Messrs, Lane, Crawford & Co's New Frontage building, in 1922 after leaving his previous firm Probst, Hanbury & Co..
Crazy Rich Asians premiered on August 7, 2018, at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles and was released theatrically in the United States on August 15, 2018, by Warner Bros. Pictures. A major critical and commercial success, the film grossed over $238 million on a budget of $30 million, making it the highest-grossing romantic comedy of the ...
Shanghai Red (Chinese: 红美丽) is a 2006 Chinese-American thriller-drama film directed by Oscar L. Costo, starring Vivian Wu and Richard Burgi. Cast [ edit ]
A double feature edition, in which the film was paired with Bu Wancang's A Spray of Plum Blossoms (1931), was released by the Los Angeles-based Cinema Epoch in 2007. [67] This edition featured a soundtrack by Toshiyuki Hiraoka, with the opera scenes overdubbed with excerpts from Bai Guang 's performance of "Ten Sighs".