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Pearl & Dean was formed in 1953 by Ernie and Charles Pearl and Bob Dean, to sell advertising on British cinema screens prior to the showing of the main feature. [2] The short adverts, with which British cinema audiences quickly became familiar, were the idea of Joe Morris (born Joseph Iglitsky), one of Pearl & Dean's in-house advertising executives.
Pearl & Dean Ireland, formerly known as Carlton Screen Advertising and Wide Eye Media, is a cinema advertising company in Ireland. The company is owned by SGO Products Ltd and is a sister company to Pearl & Dean .
In August 2015, Vue International acquired JT Bioscopen, the second-largest cinema chain in the Netherlands, bringing Vue's number of sites to over 200. [13] In June 2018, Vue acquired the Irish operator Showtime Cinemas, adding a further two cinemas to their estate in the United Kingdom and Ireland, now totalling 89 cinemas. [14]
Pearl and Dean's fundraising provided the monies to open the cinema at the Yorkhill Children's Hospital. Warner Village and UGC screened commercials with Ewan McGregor for MediCinema, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] to raise £250,000 for the construction of the cinema complex at the Royal Children's Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland's largest children's hospital.
The cinema featured designs never before incorporated into a UK cinema such as the screen design, lighting and the walls quilted with mahogany and fawn to give the maximum in acoustic results. [3] It opened on 12 October 1938 showing The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn. [2] The cinema was refurbished in 1964. [4]
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 ...
Cineworld Cinemas logo used since 2008. Cineworld Group (trading as Cineworld) is a British cinema operator headquartered in London, England. It is the world's second-largest cinema chain (after AMC Theatres), with 9,139 screens across 747 sites [4] in 10 countries: [5] Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Pearl and Dean operate in Australia. Does anyone know the current state of their operations? Ozdaren 07:49, 15 January 2007 (UTC) pearl and dean seemed to disappear back when hoyts appeared. At least that is what happened in canberra. --124.168.204.157 04:47, 10 February 2008 (UTC)