Oscar Deutsch founded which cinema chain in 1930, taking the name from the Greek word for amphitheatre?
"in the 1920s, but Deutsch made it his own in the UK. His publicity team claimed Odeon stood for ""Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation"". Oscar Deutsch Oscar Deutsch (12 August 1893 – 5 December 1941) was a British businessman. He was the founder of the Odeon Cinemas chain in the United Kingdom. Deutsch was born in Balsall Heath, Birmingham, Warwickshire, the son of Leopold Deutsch, a successful Hungarian Jewish scrap metal merchant. After attending King Edward VI Five Ways, he opened his first cinema in nearby Brierley Hill, Dudley in 1928. By 1933 he had 26 Odeons and ""Odeon"" had"
"Disney Pictures. As a result, it gives Cosmote Cinema exclusive rights to the coverage of the Academy Awards. It also has agreements in place with Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures. Cosmote Cinema operates four multiplex channels: ""Cosmote Cinema 1HD"" and ""Cosmote Cinema 2HD"" features special events such as the Academy Awards and European Film Awards. Cosmote Cinema 4HD features all of the following series. Cosmote Cinema Cosmote Cinema is a premium television service available in Greece that broadcasts blockbuster movies and hit series. It launched on 5 November 2012 as OTE Cinema. It was renamed of 14 November 2016. It"
"AMC Theatres AMC Theatres (originally an abbreviation for American Multi-Cinema, often referred to simply as AMC and known in some countries as AMC Cinemas) is an American movie theater chain. Founded in 1920, AMC has the largest share of the American theater market ahead of Regal Entertainment Group and Cinemark Theatres. The company's headquarters are located in Leawood, Kansas. After acquiring Odeon Cinemas, UCI Cinemas, and Carmike Cinemas in 2016, it became the largest movie theater chain in the world, and also the largest in the United States, with 2,200 screens in 244 theatres in Europe and over 8,200 screens"
"chain (previously United Paramount Theatres and ABC Theatres). In 1986, Cineplex Odeon bought Essaness Theatres (a Chicago area chain founded in 1929 by Edwin Silverman and Sidney Spiegel of the Spiegel catalog family), Neighborhood Theatres of Virginia, and the RKO Century Theatres chain (previously Century Theatres [a New York area chain] and RKO Stanley Warner Theatres). Also, in 1986, when federal regulations had been relaxed, MCA (owners of Universal) purchased a stake in Cineplex Odeon. In 1987, Cineplex acquired the Walter Reade Organization from The Coca-Cola Company. In 1986, the corporation established a film distribution outlet, Cineplex Odeon Films, and"
"articles for information about specific theatres. Fox Theatres Fox Theatres was a large chain of movie theaters in the United States dating from the 1920s either built by Fox Film studio owner William Fox, or subsequently merged in 1929 by Fox with the West Coast Theatres chain, to form the Fox West Coast Theatres chain. Fox West Coast went into bankruptcy and was sold to The National Theatres Corporation, led by Charles Skouras, on November 20, 1933 for $17,000,000.00. Eugene V. Klein later became CEO of National, and turned it into the conglomerate National General. Mann Theatres bought National General's"
"Fox Theatres Fox Theatres was a large chain of movie theaters in the United States dating from the 1920s either built by Fox Film studio owner William Fox, or subsequently merged in 1929 by Fox with the West Coast Theatres chain, to form the Fox West Coast Theatres chain. Fox West Coast went into bankruptcy and was sold to The National Theatres Corporation, led by Charles Skouras, on November 20, 1933 for $17,000,000.00. Eugene V. Klein later became CEO of National, and turned it into the conglomerate National General. Mann Theatres bought National General's theatres in 1973. Many of these"
"tower displaying its name. Blue neon outlines the exterior of the building at night. It was built to be the flagship of Oscar Deutsch's Odeon Cinema Circuit and still holds that position today. It hosts numerous European and world film premieres including the annual Royal Film Performance. The Odeon was completed by Sir Robert McAlpine in 1937 to the design of Harry Weedon and Andrew Mather on the site of the Turkish baths and the adjoining Alhambra Theatre a large music hall dating from the 1850s. The site cost £550,000, the cinema took seven months to build at a cost"
"its history. The first cinema opened by Oscar Deutsch was located in Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, England in 1928. The building has long since been demolished, but as of 2006, the former UCI Cinema (built in the 1980s as an AMC multiplex) at the Merry Hill Shopping Centre in Brierley Hill was refurbished as an ODEON Cinema. However, its style is more functional than that of original ODEON cinemas. The first cinema that opened under the ODEON brand was located in Perry Barr, Birmingham. It was designed by Harry Weedon. The frontage was remodelled following damage sustained during the Second World"
"television licenses were auctioned in Greece in a highly unusual competitive bidding process. The licenses were bought by ANT1 TV (Thodoris Kyriakou) for €75.9m, Alter Ego (Evangelos Marinakis) for €73.9m, Ioannis-Vladimiros Kalogritsas for 52.6m and SKAI TV (Iannis Alafouzos) for €43.6m. Cinema first appeared in Greece in 1896 but the first actual cine-theatre was opened in 1907. In 1914 the ""Asty Films Company"" was founded and the production of long films begun. ""Golfo"" (Γκόλφω), a well known traditional love story, is the first Greek long movie, although there were several minor productions such as newscasts before this. In 1931, Orestis"
"Cosmote Cinema Cosmote Cinema is a premium television service available in Greece that broadcasts blockbuster movies and hit series. It launched on 5 November 2012 as OTE Cinema. It was renamed of 14 November 2016. It is owned by OTE, who own and operate Cosmote TV a DTH satellite service and Cosmote Sport—a sports channel. Cosmote Cinema is a 24/7 service and it features hit series from UK and blockbusters movies from Greece and abroad. Also, it features shows with showbiz news, making of, deleted scenes and back stage. Recently, Cosmote Cinema has entered into an exclusive agreement with Walt"
"ABC Cinemas ABC Cinemas (""Associated British Cinemas"") was a cinema chain in the United Kingdom. Originally a wholly owned subsidiary of Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC), it operated between the 1930s and the 1980s. The brand name was reused in the 1990s until 2000. ABC Cinemas was established in 1927 by solicitor John Maxwell by merging three smaller Scottish cinema circuits. It became a wholly owned cinema subsidiary of British International Pictures when it was merged with the production arm of British National Studios, which had been formed by Maxwell in 1926. During the 1930s, it grew rapidly by acquisitions"
"two other Greeks, they constructed a modest nickelodeon (movie theater) at 1420 Market Street on the site of today's Peabody Opera House. This initial property, named the Olympia, was quickly followed by the acquisition of other theaters. The brothers incorporated in 1924 with $400,000 capital stock. By then more than thirty local theaters belonged to the Skouras Brothers Co. of St. Louis. The biggest moment for the Skouras empire came when their dream of building a world-class movie palace in downtown St. Louis was grandly realized in 1926 when the $5.5 million Ambassador Theatre Building opened (this theater re-opened in"
"Picturehouse Cinemas would operate the new cinema. An inquiry into the compulsory purchase order was launched in April 2015, and was approved in October 2015. Construction work began on the site in December 2016. Empire Cinemas Empire Cinemas Limited is a multiplex cinema chain in the UK. There are 14 Empire Cinemas across the country, with 125 screens in total. The ultimate beneficial owner of Empire Cinemas Ltd is Irish entrepreneur Thomas Anderson. Anderson also owns Inspiration Holdings Ltd, a company which now owns Altive Media, Pearl & Dean advertising company, Titan Parking and Clarkebond. The CEO of Empire Cinemas,"
"Terra Firma Capital Partners who had recently purchased UCI cinemas and over the next six years all the Rank people were replaced with UCI management, replicating what Odeon did to ABC in 2001/2002. On Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street the O2 ABC Glasgow is now a music venue. Furthermore, Skegness and Minehead Butlins holiday camps have an on-site ABC cinema. ABC Cinemas ABC Cinemas (""Associated British Cinemas"") was a cinema chain in the United Kingdom. Originally a wholly owned subsidiary of Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC), it operated between the 1930s and the 1980s. The brand name was reused in the 1990s"
"licence acquired by the foundation; in return, it paid 8% of its gross revenue to the foundation. In its turn, the foundation was paying 40% of its net gains to three different associations. The cinema opened on 28 December 1929 with a screening of the American sound film romance ""White Shadows in the South Seas"" which received an Oscar for best cinematography. At the time, the cinema was managed by Rudolf Valenta, and since 1930 by Rudolf Urban. The entrance fee ranged between 3 and 7 Czechoslovak crowns. While the overall earnings are unknown, the foundation received a yearly share"
"entertainment industry. In 2010, Tim League founded Drafthouse Films, a film distribution company named after, and inspired by, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema chain. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is an American cinema chain founded in 1997 in Austin, Texas that is famous for its strict policy of requiring its audiences to maintain proper cinemagoing etiquette. It has screens in 35 locations, including twenty (with five more being built) across Texas. Outside of Texas, it has 4 locations in Virginia (Winchester, Charlottesville, Woodbridge and Ashburn). There are two locations each in New York (Yonkers and Brooklyn), Missouri (Kansas City"
"of the entire Loews and American Cineplex chains, along with Magic Theatres (named after NBA player Magic Johnson) and Star Theatres, based in Metro Detroit. In 2010, AMC acquired Chicago-based Kerasotes Showplace Theatres, LLC for $275 million, combining the nation's second and sixth largest movie theater chains, except for the Showplace 14 in New Jersey and the Showplace ICON theatres. In December 2015, Starplex Cinemas was sold to AMC for approximately $175 million. Most of these theaters now operate as AMC Classic as of July 2017. On March 3, 2016, AMC announced its intent to acquire Carmike Cinemas in a"
"a building to her death. Athanasios Skouras, member of the Greek Resistant Organisation PEAN during the Axis Occupation of Greece in the Second World War, was a relative of his. In May 1935 Spyros Skouras took the initiative for the merge of Fox with Twentieth Century Pictures. He served as president of the merged company 20th Century Fox from 1942 to 1962. Skouras was also a major stockholder of 20th Century Fox. In the 1950s he, together with his brothers, controlled 20th Century Fox, National Theaters, Fox West Coast Theaters, United Artists Theaters, Skouras Theaters, Magna Corp, and Todd AO."
"Santikos Theatres Santikos Entertainment is a movie theater chain based in San Antonio, Texas, USA. The company was started by Louis Santikos, a Greek entrepreneur, who had moved to Texas and immediately opened nickelodeons in the city in the early 1900s. His son, John Santikos, eventually took over the company and continued to create various movie theaters, including indoor multi-screen theaters and local drive-ins. In 1987, John Santikos sold the company to Act III Theatres. John Santikos was able to buy back the company in 2001 due to the recession of 2001 that had affected the industry. It has expanded"
"at a San Antonio Police Department patrol car. The suspect was taken to a hospital but was not immediately charged. The shooting immediately sparked fears of a mass shooting as the incident appeared to be similar to the 2012 Aurora shooting, however no one was killed and only two people were wounded. The suspect was taken into custody. Santikos Theatres Santikos Entertainment is a movie theater chain based in San Antonio, Texas, USA. The company was started by Louis Santikos, a Greek entrepreneur, who had moved to Texas and immediately opened nickelodeons in the city in the early 1900s. His"
"promoting European and art-house films. The Netherlands-born Elsie Cohen, who had worked on Dutch and German film productions, took over the Windmill Theatre for six months in 1929 and successfully put on a highbrow season of recent Russian and German films. Stuart Davis had already approached Eric Hakim, the owner of the Picture House, but Hakim wanted too big a rent. However, Elsie Cohen persuaded Hakim to let her manage the cinema, and it opened as The Academy in 1931 with Alexander Dovzhenko's ""Earth"" ('Zemlya'), one of the last silent films before the 'talkies' took over. In order to encourage"
"thousands, when it opened the AMC Grand 24 in Dallas, Texas; the first megaplex in the world had been built by European chain Kinepolis in 1988. AMC continued to open other megaplex theaters, such as the AMC Hampton Towne Center 24 in Hampton, Virginia, and the chain's busiest theater in the US, the AMC Empire 25 in New York City near Times Square. The largest theaters in the AMC chain have 30 screens, including the AMC Gulf Pointe 30 in Houston, Texas, the AMC DINE-IN Grapevine Mills 30 in Grapevine, Texas, the AMC Ontario Mills 30 in Ontario, California, the"
"Athena Cinema The Athena Cinema is a movie theater in Athens, Ohio that has been showing 35mm film movie presentations since 1915. Originally called Majestic Theatre, the name was eventually changed to Schine's Athena before being called The Athena Cinema. In 2001, the Athena went up for sale but no one showed interest in operating the nearly century old cinema. The theater was contracted to Ohio University which sought to restore the building. The Athena reopened in February 2002. Ohio University contracted the theater to an independent manager. When the lease was nearing expiration, a committee formed to decide how"
"later, the Chief of police Ted Jones said that he is “not comfortable with police officers making decisions” regarding what is obscene and what is not. The manager of the theater, Ben Geary, completely disagrees with the chief of police’s decision. He believes that he has done nothing wrong and that the X-rated movies are monitored. He says that he still disagrees with the chief of police’s opinion. Athena Cinema The Athena Cinema is a movie theater in Athens, Ohio that has been showing 35mm film movie presentations since 1915. Originally called Majestic Theatre, the name was eventually changed to"
"Originally designed for another chain and to be called the ""Beacon"", Deutsch saw in Clavering's simple and original Art Deco design the making of the house style he sought to distinguish the Odeon chain from his rivals. The cinema was quickly bought for the Odeon group and Weedon was appointed to oversee all of the group's designs. Between Weedon's appointment in 1934 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939 the Weedon office was to design or act as consultant architect to over 250 of Deutsch's cinemas. Not all of these were designed by the practice itself: of the"
"led by director Theo Angelopoulos, whose films frequently captured international awards. The drift toward art-house cinema in the 1980s led to a decline in audiences, however. In the 1990s, younger Greek filmmakers began experimenting with iconographic motifs. In spite of funding issues created by the financial crisis in the late 2000s, unique Greek films such as Yorgos Lanthimos's ""Dogtooth"" (2009) and Athina Rachel Tsangari's ""Attenberg"" (2010) received international acclaim. In the spring of 1897, the Greeks of Athens watched the first cinematic ventures (short movies in ""journal""). In 1906 Greek Cinema was born when the Manakis brothers started recording in"
"Of the six UK based sites, Norwich was the first to open in Autumn 2000. Established in 1996, the company was a spin-off from the South African cinema chain, Ster-Kinekor. Ster Century's first cinema was opened in 1998 in partnership with Assos Odeon, a cinema company based in Greece, under the name Ster Odeon. In 1999 Ster Century opened its first cinemas under its own brand. By the end of the year it had operations in Dublin, Ireland; Prague and Brno, Czech Republic; Wrocław and Warsaw, Poland; and Budapest, Hungary. Development continued in 2000 with further cinemas opened in the"
"from 1917, when Angleo Coronis established himself as a film exhibitor in Sydney, right through to 1984 when Chris James finally retired after 38 years in the business. Some of those Greek exhibitors ran multiple theatres in several towns either simultaneously or as serial operations. Sir Nicholas Laurantus bought and built cinemas in Narrandera, Junee, Tumut, Lockhart, Cowra Hillston and Gundagai, often installing family members to run them. In fact Laurantas brother-in-law Peter Stathis and his sons ran the Montreal Theatre in Tumut from 1930 to 1965. Similarly the Hatsatouris family ran a chain of cinemas in Port Macquarie, Taree,"
"early ""super cinema"" was the Regent Cinema (1921), and the 2,500-seat Savoy followed in 1930. The Astoria chain was well established in London by the early 1930s. Cinemas and theatres of that name were built in Brixton (now the Brixton Academy), Finsbury Park, Charing Cross Road, Old Kent Road and Streatham. All were designed by Edward Albert Stone. The brand was soon extended to seaside resorts across southeast England at the initiative of a group of businessmen led by E.E. Lyons. (""Teddy"" Lyons had opened one of Brighton's earliest cinemas, the Academy, in 1911 and was well known in the"
"Greece. In addition, it operates a cinema in Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy. Cineplexx Cinemas Cineplexx is a cinema company based in Austria. The company was founded in 1993, and operates mainly multiplex type cinemas. Operating mainly in Austria, where it has 27 cinemas, the company started regional expansion into Southeast Europe in late 2000s. So far, the company has acquired or built cinemas in Maribor, Celje, Murska Sobota, Novo Mesto, Kranj and Koper in Slovenia; Zagreb and Split in Croatia; Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš and Kragujevac in Serbia; Podgorica in Montenegro; Pristina in Kosovo; Tirana in Albania; Skopje in the"
"is the famous Art Deco movie house, the Pantages Theatre, built in 1930 by B. Marcus Priteca—the first of its kind in the United States. The Academy Award ceremonies were held at the Pantages from 1949 to 1959. On the southwest corner, the B.H. Dyas building was built in 1927 by architect Frederick Rice Dorn. The B.H Dyas Specialty Emporium was a victim of the depression. From 1931 to 1982 it housed The Broadway-Hollywood department store. The famous sign is a historical landmark and remains. In 2007, the Broadway Hollywood Building underwent extensive reconstruction and has opened as a luxury"
"of the Universe"" (1987) was dubbed ""the ""Star Wars"" of the '80s."" Diversifying from film production, Cannon had begun purchasing film distributors and movie theaters. The purchases ranged from European companies (Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment, Tuschinski Theatres, a 49-screen theater chain in the Netherlands, and the 53-screen Cannon Cinema Italia) to the sixth-largest chain in the United States, 425-screen ""marginally profitable"" Commonwealth Theaters. To purchase Commonwealth, Cannon paid $25 million in cash and assumed $50 to $60 million in debt. Additionally, Cannon owned the film rights to ""Spider-Man"", and planned to make a ""Spider-Man"" movie in the mid-1980s. Golan and"
"its incorporation of elements of the Greek Revival style. The building was purchased by the Balaban and Katz cinema chain and renamed in 1927. It was later operated by ABC/Great States and Cineplex Odeon. The theater featured ornate interior design common of the movie palaces of its era. It was known for showing exclusive runs and premieres of top Hollywood films. In the 1970s, the theater focused mostly on the action and horror films popular at the time, with the occasional blockbuster, such as the house-record breaking run of ""Jaws"". From the 1950s until its closing, the theater featured an"