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Multiplexes in Minsk: Silver Screen Cinemas bring the modern movie chain to Belarus

19th April 202119th April 2021 Box Office Pro

“We were called crazy!,” recalls CEO Oleg Tronik, reflecting on the 2014 birth of Silver Screen Cinemas. What is now, in 2021, four theaters—with one opened in March 2021, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic—was then just one, but that one passed a pretty significant milestone: Silver Screen’s Galileo theater, in the capital city of Minsk, was the first multiplex in the Eastern European nation of Belarus. Traditionally, cinemas in Belarus have either been privately owned single locations or, more frequently, theaters owned and run by the state. Prior…

Shanghai to have four new Imax with laser theatres

24th March 2021 Box Office Pro

Imax, along with subsidiary Imax China, has signed an agreement with Hong Kong-based chain Broadway Theatre Company Limited for four new Imax with Laser theaters in Shanghai. Broadway Theatre Company Limited currently operates 52 cinemas and 436 screens across five brands in China, as well as 13 cinemas and over 70 screens in Hong Kong. Eight of Broadway’s top-performing theaters in China currently boast Imax screens. One of the new Broadway Imax theaters will be located in One East, a flagship mixed use property located in downtown Shanghai. All four…

AMC expects most California locations to open by 19 March

23rd March 202125th March 2021 Box Office Pro

AMC Theatres will begin its Los Angeles cinema re-opening effort with the return of its AMC Burbank 16 and AMC Century City 15 locations on Monday, March 15. All other of the circuit’s 23 remaining sites in L.A. county will return to operation starting on Friday, March 19. The circuit plans to have nearly all 56 of its locations in the state of California by the end of next week, pending approval from state and local authorities. “The reopening of movie theaters in Los Angeles County and throughout California is…