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The Oakville Entertainment Centrum is a large regional shopping mall located at the northwest corner of The Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) & Winston Churchill Blvd. in Oakville, Ontario. [7] Its anchor tenants are the Cineplex Odeon Cinema, Homewood Suites by Hilton and Dave & Buster's. The plaza contains entertainment venues, such as Putting Edge ...
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]
Among the changes was the closures of 46 theatres in North America including 21 Loews theatres in the U.S. and 25 Cineplex Odeon theatres in Canada. [18] In 2002, Onex Corporation and Oaktree Capital Management acquired Loews Cineplex from Sony and Universal and the company was filed for initial public offering (IPO).
Ontario Place Cinesphere: Ontario Place: 1971 2012 – closed as part of government decision to close Ontario place. Reopened 2017–present. 1 The world's first permanent IMAX theatre. Opera House: Queen and Broadview 1909 1 Today, a music venue. Orpheum Theatre Queen and Bathurst 1 Oxford Theatre Danforth and Coxwell 1928 (renovated May 1937) 1
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.
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.
Landmark Cinemas is the umbrella name originally covering the holdings of Towne Cinemas, Rokemay Cinemas, and occasionally May Theatres. It was adopted in 1974 after the purchase of Rothstein Theatres, which was the first big expansion for the company, adding about 15 locations (some closed immediately or sold and were never operated by Landmark).
The brothers became film exhibitors in September 1906. Their father gave them the money needed to open a theatre in Hamilton, Ontario, which had no theatres yet, but instead they opened their theatre in Brantford as they had to wait thirty days to rent in Hamilton. Their theatre, Theatorium, opened on 10 November 1906, with 2,000 in attendance.