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In November 2014, Vue International acquired The Space Cinema in Italy. [10] In March 2015, Vue announced it would build the United Kingdom's first eSports arena in cooperation with Gfinity, costing £350,000. [11] The Fulham Broadway cinema was converted into a six hundred seat 'Gfinity Arena,' to host e gaming events [12]
Vue West End is a nine-screen cinema complex in Leicester Square, London, operated by Vue Cinemas. The multiplex was constructed in 1993 on the site of what was previously the Warner West End cinema.
Fulham Broadway is a London Underground station on the Wimbledon branch of the District line. It is between West Brompton and Parsons Green stations and is in Travelcard Zone 2. The station is located on Fulham Broadway . It is the nearest station to Stamford Bridge stadium, the home of Chelsea Football Club. The station is in a cutting that ...
Broadway Cinemas 1999–2004 1211 W Broadway Converted from a Winn-Dixie building into 10-screen complex. It was an effort to bring a theater back to the predominantly black West End, after the last of 6 area theaters, Cinema West, closed in 1975. [4] Broadway Cinemas failed due to slow ticket sales and trouble with its creditors.
Virgin Cinemas was founded in 1995 when Richard Branson's Virgin Group acquired MGM Cinemas, [1] the largest movie theatre operator in the United Kingdom. [2] Virgin Group bought the cinemas for £195m, and subsequently sold 90 of the chain's smallest cinemas to Cinven and ABC for £70m to concentrate on multiplexes.
By 1989, only four such theaters remained on Broadway, [5] [6] as these cinemas were generally smaller neighborhood theaters, which struggled to compete with larger multiplex theaters. [7] The Metro was the only remaining movie theater on the Upper West Side stretch of Broadway by the beginning of the 21st century. [5] [8]
In 1945, the last year of World War II, there was a box office boom and the British Rank Organisation purchased a half share in Greater Union Theatres. During this time Greater Union acquired the rights of ownership of many theatres across the country including what became the Phoenician Club in Broadway, Sydney in 1943, originally owned by McIntyre's Broadway Theatres and established as a ...
The Majestic Theatre is a Broadway theater at 245 West 44th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.Opened in 1927, the theater was designed by Herbert J. Krapp in a Spanish style and was built for real-estate developer Irwin S. Chanin.