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Filmhouse Cinemas (West Africa) – with 13 cinemas as of 2022, it is the largest cinema chain in West Africa in terms of location numbers. It has 65 screens in locations such as Lagos, Ibadan, Lekki where they have the first IMAX theatre in West Africa, Calabar, Akure, Port Harcourt, Kano and Asaba. The company was established in 2012 and it ...
The first Century theater was the Century 21 in San Jose, California, which opened November 24, 1964, adjacent to the Winchester Mystery House. [1] The Century 21 theater was built to showcase Cinerama type movies (the left and right empty projection booths are still present), but in fact, it showed only 70mm movies. The screen was later ...
Classic Cinemas, based in Downers Grove, Illinois, is a family-owned company operated by Willis, Shirley and Chris Johnson. Established in 1978, Classic Cinemas operates 16 theatres with 137 screens in 15 communities in the northern Illinois and Wisconsin area. As of September 23, 2016, Classic Cinemas opened up Cinema 7 in Sandwich, Illinois.
Fox Theatre in Redwood City, California. 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. [2] Fox West Coast went into bankruptcy and ...
Sturbridge Luxury Cinemas, a "dine in" theater with luxury seating and eight big screens, will take over the space once occupied by the 1,210-capacity Sturbridge Cinemagic Stadium Theaters at the ...
1900–1919. The first permanent motion picture theater in the state of California was Tally's Electric Theater, completed in 1902 in Los Angeles. Tally's theater was in a storefront in a larger building. The Great Train Robbery ( 1903 ), which was 12 minutes in length, would also give the film industry a boost. [5]
United States. Bengies Drive-In Theatre in Middle River, Maryland. The first drive-in was opened in 1933 in New Jersey. [1] As of 2017, around 330 drive-in theaters were operating in the United States, down from a peak of around 4,000 in the late 1950s. [2] At least six are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
Formerly known as the Jose Theater, built in 1904, is the oldest theater in San Jose, located on Second Street, near San Fernando Street. Construction of the Jose was started in 1903, under the ownership of David Jacks, a Monterey landowner (who was the namesake of Monterrey Jack cheese ). At that time, the theater was a popular showcase for ...