Cineplex Odeon opened this theatre on August 7, 1985, with E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Fright Night, Rambo, Weird Science, and St. Elmo’s Fire. Rainbow Cinemas acquired it in 2003 and later Imagine Cinemas in 2016. As of 2020, the theatre’s now permanently closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This theatre opened on November 16, 2001, with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Shallow Hal, Heist, Life as a House, The One, Monsters, Inc., Domestic Disturbance, K-Pax, Century Hotel, and Amelié.
This theatre opened on October 22, 2000, with The Legend of Drunken Master (2 screens), The Contender (2 screens), Bedazzled (2 screens), Bamboozled (2 screens), Billy Elliot, Dr. T and the Women, Girlfight, Two Family House, Digimon: The Movie, Almost Famous, The Exorcist, and Bring It On. UltraAVX was added in 2011, and IMAX was added in 2018.
This theatre’s opening movies include Road House, Rain Man, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (70mm), Pet Sematary, Major League and See No Evil, Hear No Evil.
This theatre initially opened on March 26, 1999, as Cineplex Odeon Barrie Grande as part of their “Grande” brand. It has 12 screens and was renamed Galaxy Cinemas Barrie in 2005.
This theatre opened on June 11, 1999, by the newly formed Alliance Atlantis Cinemas (a joint venture between Famous Players and Alliance Atlantis). Its opening films include Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Run Lola Run, The Winslow Boy, Notting Hill, and Limbo. It has six screens, Dolby Digital in all cinemas, a cappuccino bar with gourmet coffee and Il Fornello’s gourmet pizza, a reading lounge, and an outdoor patio with live music. Basically, this theatre is unlike anything Toronto saw years prior.
This theatre opened on June 25, 1999, with Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Tarzan, Big Daddy, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, The General’s Daughter, and Notting Hill. It opened with 10 screens, stadium seating, digital sound, THX certification in all theatres, Playdium Techtown, and various food vendors (Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, New York Fries, Wetzel’s Pretzels and Surf City Squeeze). The grand opening ad for June 25, 1999, said it opens tomorrow, but the listings for that day contradict it. Cineplex renamed the theatre to Cineplex Cinemas Yorkdale in 2015.
This theatre opened on March 28, 2008, with 21, 27 Dresses, Cloverfield, College Road Trip, Definitely, Maybe, The Eye, Fool’s Gold, Jumper, Juno, Meet the Spartans, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Run Fat Boy Run, Semi-Pro, Step Up 2: The Streets, Stop-Loss, There Will Be Blood, and Untraceable. It opened with 5000 seats and has Sony 4K projectors in all theatres, which Cineplex replaced with their own in 2012. From my research, it was originally planned to have 30 screens before changing it to 24. A 4DX auditorium was added on November 4, 2016, with Doctor Strange.
This theatre opened with The Mummy (5 screens), Entrapment (3 screens), Hideous Kinky, Il Postino, Cinema Paradiso, Johnny Stecchino, Nights of Cabiria, Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember, Austin Powers, Pulp Fiction, Seven, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Cookie’s Fortune, A Walk on the Moon, Saving Private Ryan, Waking Ned Devine, Rushmore, Elizabeth, True Crime, Cruel Intentions, 8mm, Baby Geniuses, EdTV, The Deep End of the Ocean, and Payback. Some films were relocated from Colossus to this one.
This theatre opened with Vertical Limit, Proof of Life, WWF: Armageddon, Dungeons & Dragons, Billy Elliot, Red Planet, Rugrats in Paris, The Legend of Bagger Vance, 102 Dalmatians, and Unbreakable.
As Mike mentioned, Cineplex Odeon opened this theatre on December 22, 1995. It opened with Grumpier Old Men (Dolby Stereo), Toy Story (Dolby Stereo), Sabrina (Dolby Stereo), Jumanji (Dolby Stereo), Waiting to Exhale (Dolby Stereo), Heat (Dolby Stereo), Dracula: Dead and Loving It (Dolby Stereo), Cutthroat Island (Dolby Stereo), Casino (Stereo), Balto (Stereo) and Sudden Death (DTS).
This theatre opened with Deep Impact (Digital) THX, Titanic (Digital), City of Angels (Digital), Sliding Doors (Digital), He Got Game (Digital), Paulie (Stereo) and Ballistic Kiss (Stereo).
20th Century Theatres opened this cinema on October 5, 1973, 2ith The Pyx, Paper Moon, I Could Never Have Sex With Any Man Who Has So Little Regard For My Husband, and Electra Glide in Blue.
Central Parkway Cinemas opened on December 26, 1980, with The Tim Drum, The Black Stallion, Airplane!, and Stardust Memories. As Mike mentioned prior, it was independent before being acquired by Cineplex Odeon in the 80s. It was later used as a school for projectionists and reopened years later by Dollar Cinemas. By the Mid 90s, Golden Theatres acquired it before selling it again to Encore Cinemas in 1999. By 2000, it became independent again when CineStarz acquired it in 2008.
SilverCity Brampton opened on November 19, 1999, with The Sixth Sense, The Insider, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Double Jeopardy, Sleepy Hollow, The World is Not Enough, Three to Tango, and Pokemon: The First Movie.
The theatre opened with Alien: Resurrection (Digital) THX, Flubber (Digital) THX, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (Digital), The Midnight Garden of Good & Evil (Digital), Anastasia (Digital), The Rainmaker (Digital), Starship Troopers (Digital), FairyTale: A True Story (Stereo), and The Jackal (Digital).
This theatre opened on December 18, 1998, the same day as AMC Winston Churchill and Cineplex Odeon First Markham Place. Its opening features are What Dreams May Come, Elizabeth, Waking Ned Devine, Life is Beautiful, Jack Frost, The Prince of Egypt, Pleasantville, American History, Rush Hour, Meet Joe Black, The Wizard of Oz, Celebrity, Antz, The Seige, and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. On a side note, this megaplex’s footprint is surprisingly small, and I consider it the smallest AMC in Canada when it was built.
This theatre opened with Living Out Loud, Very Bad Things, Rush Hour, Outside Ozona, The Prince of Egypt, Waking Ned Devine, Elizabeth, Antz, Meet Joe Black, Pleasantville, Jack Frost, What Dreams May Come, American History, The Wizard of Oz, Ronin, Life is Beautiful, The Red Violin, Home Fries and Celebrity.
This theatre opened on May 19, 1999, with Star Wars-Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tea with Mussolini, Life is Beautiful, The Red Violin and Encounter of the Third Dimension in IMAX.
This cinema actually opened on September 29, 1989. The Grand Opening advert even said so. It opened with War Party, Sea of Love, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Welcome Home, and Millennium.
This theatre opened on April 6, 2001, with Blow, Along Came a Spider, The Tailor of Panama, Pokemon 3: The Movie, Blow Dry, Just Visiting, Heartbreakers, Spy Kids, Exit Wounds, Traffic, Tomcats, Someone Like You, See Spot Run and Get Over It. It has stadium seating with AMC Love Seats and Sony Dynamic Digital Sound.
Colossus opened on February 12, 1999, with My Favorite Martian, Message in a Bottle, Life is Beautiful, Shakespeare in Love, She’s All That, Payback, Blast From the Past, Rushmore, Saving Private Ryan, Thin Red Line, The Prince of Egypt, The Red Violin, T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous and Special Effects, the latter two were presented in IMAX. All cinemas were THX certified and have digital sound (mostly Dolby Digital).
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Cineplex Odeon opened this theatre on August 7, 1985, with E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Fright Night, Rambo, Weird Science, and St. Elmo’s Fire. Rainbow Cinemas acquired it in 2003 and later Imagine Cinemas in 2016. As of 2020, the theatre’s now permanently closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This theatre opened on November 16, 2001, with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Shallow Hal, Heist, Life as a House, The One, Monsters, Inc., Domestic Disturbance, K-Pax, Century Hotel, and Amelié.
This theatre opened on October 22, 2000, with The Legend of Drunken Master (2 screens), The Contender (2 screens), Bedazzled (2 screens), Bamboozled (2 screens), Billy Elliot, Dr. T and the Women, Girlfight, Two Family House, Digimon: The Movie, Almost Famous, The Exorcist, and Bring It On. UltraAVX was added in 2011, and IMAX was added in 2018.
This theatre’s opening movies include Road House, Rain Man, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (70mm), Pet Sematary, Major League and See No Evil, Hear No Evil.
This theatre initially opened on March 26, 1999, as Cineplex Odeon Barrie Grande as part of their “Grande” brand. It has 12 screens and was renamed Galaxy Cinemas Barrie in 2005.
This theatre opened on June 11, 1999, by the newly formed Alliance Atlantis Cinemas (a joint venture between Famous Players and Alliance Atlantis). Its opening films include Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Run Lola Run, The Winslow Boy, Notting Hill, and Limbo. It has six screens, Dolby Digital in all cinemas, a cappuccino bar with gourmet coffee and Il Fornello’s gourmet pizza, a reading lounge, and an outdoor patio with live music. Basically, this theatre is unlike anything Toronto saw years prior.
This theatre opened on June 25, 1999, with Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Tarzan, Big Daddy, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, The General’s Daughter, and Notting Hill. It opened with 10 screens, stadium seating, digital sound, THX certification in all theatres, Playdium Techtown, and various food vendors (Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, New York Fries, Wetzel’s Pretzels and Surf City Squeeze). The grand opening ad for June 25, 1999, said it opens tomorrow, but the listings for that day contradict it. Cineplex renamed the theatre to Cineplex Cinemas Yorkdale in 2015.
This theatre opened on March 28, 2008, with 21, 27 Dresses, Cloverfield, College Road Trip, Definitely, Maybe, The Eye, Fool’s Gold, Jumper, Juno, Meet the Spartans, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Run Fat Boy Run, Semi-Pro, Step Up 2: The Streets, Stop-Loss, There Will Be Blood, and Untraceable. It opened with 5000 seats and has Sony 4K projectors in all theatres, which Cineplex replaced with their own in 2012. From my research, it was originally planned to have 30 screens before changing it to 24. A 4DX auditorium was added on November 4, 2016, with Doctor Strange.
This theatre opened with The Mummy (5 screens), Entrapment (3 screens), Hideous Kinky, Il Postino, Cinema Paradiso, Johnny Stecchino, Nights of Cabiria, Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember, Austin Powers, Pulp Fiction, Seven, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Cookie’s Fortune, A Walk on the Moon, Saving Private Ryan, Waking Ned Devine, Rushmore, Elizabeth, True Crime, Cruel Intentions, 8mm, Baby Geniuses, EdTV, The Deep End of the Ocean, and Payback. Some films were relocated from Colossus to this one.
This theatre opened with Princess Mononoke, The Insider, Double Jeopardy, Three Kings, Three to Tango and Pokemon: The First Movie.
This theatre opened with Vertical Limit, Proof of Life, WWF: Armageddon, Dungeons & Dragons, Billy Elliot, Red Planet, Rugrats in Paris, The Legend of Bagger Vance, 102 Dalmatians, and Unbreakable.
As Mike mentioned, Cineplex Odeon opened this theatre on December 22, 1995. It opened with Grumpier Old Men (Dolby Stereo), Toy Story (Dolby Stereo), Sabrina (Dolby Stereo), Jumanji (Dolby Stereo), Waiting to Exhale (Dolby Stereo), Heat (Dolby Stereo), Dracula: Dead and Loving It (Dolby Stereo), Cutthroat Island (Dolby Stereo), Casino (Stereo), Balto (Stereo) and Sudden Death (DTS).
This theatre opened with Deep Impact (Digital) THX, Titanic (Digital), City of Angels (Digital), Sliding Doors (Digital), He Got Game (Digital), Paulie (Stereo) and Ballistic Kiss (Stereo).
My mother saw The Smurfs and the Magic Flute at this theatre in 1983.
20th Century Theatres opened this cinema on October 5, 1973, 2ith The Pyx, Paper Moon, I Could Never Have Sex With Any Man Who Has So Little Regard For My Husband, and Electra Glide in Blue.
Central Parkway Cinemas opened on December 26, 1980, with The Tim Drum, The Black Stallion, Airplane!, and Stardust Memories. As Mike mentioned prior, it was independent before being acquired by Cineplex Odeon in the 80s. It was later used as a school for projectionists and reopened years later by Dollar Cinemas. By the Mid 90s, Golden Theatres acquired it before selling it again to Encore Cinemas in 1999. By 2000, it became independent again when CineStarz acquired it in 2008.
SilverCity Brampton opened on November 19, 1999, with The Sixth Sense, The Insider, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Double Jeopardy, Sleepy Hollow, The World is Not Enough, Three to Tango, and Pokemon: The First Movie.
The theatre opened with Alien: Resurrection (Digital) THX, Flubber (Digital) THX, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (Digital), The Midnight Garden of Good & Evil (Digital), Anastasia (Digital), The Rainmaker (Digital), Starship Troopers (Digital), FairyTale: A True Story (Stereo), and The Jackal (Digital).
This theatre opened on December 18, 1998, the same day as AMC Winston Churchill and Cineplex Odeon First Markham Place. Its opening features are What Dreams May Come, Elizabeth, Waking Ned Devine, Life is Beautiful, Jack Frost, The Prince of Egypt, Pleasantville, American History, Rush Hour, Meet Joe Black, The Wizard of Oz, Celebrity, Antz, The Seige, and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. On a side note, this megaplex’s footprint is surprisingly small, and I consider it the smallest AMC in Canada when it was built.
This theatre opened with Living Out Loud, Very Bad Things, Rush Hour, Outside Ozona, The Prince of Egypt, Waking Ned Devine, Elizabeth, Antz, Meet Joe Black, Pleasantville, Jack Frost, What Dreams May Come, American History, The Wizard of Oz, Ronin, Life is Beautiful, The Red Violin, Home Fries and Celebrity.
This theatre opened on May 19, 1999, with Star Wars-Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tea with Mussolini, Life is Beautiful, The Red Violin and Encounter of the Third Dimension in IMAX.
This cinema actually opened on September 29, 1989. The Grand Opening advert even said so. It opened with War Party, Sea of Love, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Welcome Home, and Millennium.
This theatre opened on April 6, 2001, with Blow, Along Came a Spider, The Tailor of Panama, Pokemon 3: The Movie, Blow Dry, Just Visiting, Heartbreakers, Spy Kids, Exit Wounds, Traffic, Tomcats, Someone Like You, See Spot Run and Get Over It. It has stadium seating with AMC Love Seats and Sony Dynamic Digital Sound.
Colossus opened on February 12, 1999, with My Favorite Martian, Message in a Bottle, Life is Beautiful, Shakespeare in Love, She’s All That, Payback, Blast From the Past, Rushmore, Saving Private Ryan, Thin Red Line, The Prince of Egypt, The Red Violin, T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous and Special Effects, the latter two were presented in IMAX. All cinemas were THX certified and have digital sound (mostly Dolby Digital).