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Genesis Deluxe cinemas – with over 15 screens and 7 theatres, located in Lagos, Lekki, Port-Harcourt, Enugu, Effurun and Owerri. It was the first cinema in West Africa to show a 3D movie. [13] Viva Cinemas – with 18 screens and 5 theatres in Ilorin, Ibadan, Ota, Enugu, Ikeja. The company started operations in 2015.
The Mayan Theater opened in August 1927 as a performance arts theater specializing in musical comedy. [1] Leon Hefflin Sr. rented out the Mayan Theater downtown Los Angeles to produce the Sweet N' Hot, "Greatest Negro All Star Musical to Hit Coast." His business partner was Curtis Mosby, and the featured performer was Dorothy Dandridge. [2]
Capacity. 303. Opened. 1929. Website. www.landmarktheatres.com. The Nuart Theatre is an art-house movie-theater in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is the flagship location of the Landmark Theatres chain in the United States.
The Carthay Circle Theatre was one of the most famous movie palaces of Hollywood's Golden Age. Located on San Vicente Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, it opened in 1926 and was demolished in 1969. The auditorium itself was shaped in the form of a perfect circle, extended vertically into a cylinder, set inside a square that fleshed out the ...
The Tower Theatre, at South Broadway and West Eighth Street, was commissioned by H.L. Gumbiner. [3] He would also build the Los Angeles Theatre in 1931. The Tower was the first theater designed by architect S. Charles Lee. [2] Seating 900 on a tiny site (50 feet wide by 153 feet long [4] ), replacing the 650-seat 1911 Garrick Theatre, [5] it ...
584. Location of Egyptian Theatre in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Grauman's Egyptian Theatre is a historic movie theater located on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. [3] Opened in 1922, it is an early example of a lavish movie palace and is noted as having been the site of the first-ever Hollywood film premiere.
Los Angeles Theatre – Movie palace – Located at 615 S. Broadway, the Los Angeles opened in 1931 for the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights. It had a seating capacity just short of 2,000. The theater was designed by S. Charles Lee and S. Tilden Norton in the French Baroque style, and was modeled on San Francisco's Fox Theater.
The first Pussycat Theater opened in March 1966 on 444 South Hill Street, Los Angeles. Within two years, there were almost a dozen locations, from San Diego to San Francisco. In 1968, Vince Miranda bought a 50% share of the company. Miranda was unable to prevent those outside California from using the Pussycat name. Miranda spent $1 million to ...