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The Empire, Leicester Square is a cinema currently operated by Cineworld [1] on the north side of Leicester Square, London, United Kingdom. The Empire was originally built in 1884 as a variety theatre and was rebuilt for films in the 1920s. It is one of several cinemas in and adjoining Leicester Square which are regularly used for film ...
- Thomas Verity, Thomas Lamb
- 17 April 1884; 139 years ago
- 2,000 in 1884, 3,000 in 1927, 1,330 in 1962, 1,746 today
- Cineworld
5-6 Leicester Square, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 7NA. +44 871 471 4714. Today: 11:00 AM - 11:30 PM Closed Now. View Full Hours. "Multiplex Mainstay". Flagship cinema of the UCI empire, the three-strong giant silver screens and mammoth auditoriums are capacious enough to accommodate everyone, from weekend crowds, tourists and teenagers to ...
The Empire of 1928 was the only cinema in Britain constructed to designs by the American specialist Thomas Lamb. The elevation is closely based on his Albee Theatre in Cincinnati, built a year earlier. The deep portico is the only surviving element of his work. The auditorium was the biggest ever seen in the West End, and the most opulent ...
The Empire was originally a cinema in Leicester Square in London which opened in 1884 as the Empire Theatre and was a West End variety theatre, designed by Thomas Verity . Empire Cinemas Limited was formed in 2005 when Empire acquired the cinemas divested from Odeon Cinemas and Cineworld after the Office of Fair Trading had required them to ...
- 2005
- 5
The majority of UK UCI and thefilmworks cinemas were rebranded to use the Odeon name. As a condition of the merger with Odeon Cinemas (imposed by the Office of Fair Trading), UCI Clydebank, UCI Poole, UCI Sutton, UCI Basildon, The Empire Leicester Square and thefilmworks High Wycombe were sold to Empire Cinemas. Since the merger has been ...
- 1988
- Entertainment
- 29 (Brazil), 23 (Germany), 43 (Italy), 3 (Portugal)
Jul 28, 2016 · 410. 240. 6. Cineworld has acquired the Empire Leicester Square and four more Empire cinemas totalling 54 screens in a deal valued at GBP £94 million. Four of these screens are Imax screens, including the UK’s first ever laser Imax. Coming a week after AMC’s acquisition of Odeon & UCI the move represents further consolidation, as well as ...
In August 2017 the Empire Cinema - at the Empire Theatre - Screen 2 was closed for conversion into a 4DX screen to the plans of architectural firm Chapman Taylor. It reopened in March 2018 as Cineworld Cinema -Leicester Square 4DX with a reduced seating capacity of 136. On 15th May 2023 the 4DX screen was boarded up by the landlord following a ...
