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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.
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.
The company began in 1979 as Pan-Canadian Film Distributors, a partnership between film producer Garth Drabinsky and inventor Nat Taylor, [1] based in Toronto, Ontario. [2] At the time of its establishment in the United States, the Cineplex Odeon theatre chain and the tie-in studio were owned by the MCA entertainment group, also the then-owners of Universal Pictures. [3]
In September 1997, Cineplex Odeon Corporation announced that it would merge with Loews Theatres for $1 billion; the merger was later approved by the United States Department of Justice on April 16, 1998 and was later completed that year to form Loews Cineplex Entertainment, thus making it a joint venture between Sony and Universal Studios.
Cinema City – discount chain in Western Canada, purchased by Cineplex; Cineplex Odeon Cinemas – operations in both Canada and the United States. Operations in each country is owned by separate companies. Cineplex Cinemas in Canada and AMC Theatres in the United States. Colossus (theatre) – a Famous Players brand, now owned by Cineplex
Odeon Events Centre, now Coors Event Centre, in Saskatoon, Canada; Odeon, Boston, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., 1835 – c. 1846; Odeon (Munich), a former concert hall in Munich, Germany; Odeon Newport, now The NEON, in Newport, Wales; Cineplex Odeon, a cinema theatre brand of Cineplex Entertainment List of Cineplex Entertainment movie theatres
Cineplex Odeon Films was the Canadian distributor for Savoy films, then Alliance Films became the Canadian distributor after New Line Cinema picked up the later films from 1996. Much of Savoy's library now lies with Universal Pictures and Focus Features , with the exceptions of a few select titles, most likely as a result of Diller selling off ...
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