Talk:Odeon Cinemas

High Wycombe

There is a UCI Filmworks in High Wycombe - is this to be rebranded or sold off? Also, it might be worth writing something about the purchase of older brands such as Cannon and ABC if this information is available.

If you check the UCI entry at United Cinemas International it has details about High Wycombe. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.205.144.178 (talk • contribs) 11:19, 17 January 2006

Name

Odeon is not an acronym, and therefore should not be written in all capitals on Wikipedia, however the company themselves chose to write it. See WP:MOSTM. Mauls (talk) 08:54, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

This article hardly mentions Cineplex Odeon, but they were a major chain in the United States and Canaaa.

Yes, I spent many an hour enjoying the silver screen of my local Cineplex ODEON Theatre in the neighboring city of Tacoma, WA when I was a wee lad growing up in America. You couldn’t go anywhere without finding every city and town of any size had a Cineplex Odeon or was going to get one either by opening new locations in the new shopping malls or taking over competitors locations independent of malls and some new standalone locations as well. They seemed like they were gonna take it all over, then Pop! The name vanished everywhere it seemed, and now I know they became AMC, well then, they really did take most of it over because AMC theaters are everywhere in America. In the US, their only really large competitor would be Cinemark theaters (under their many various brand names) and to a lesser extent Harkins theaters. In the US, there was a newer theater chain stated by George Lucas to compete with other chains on the basis of using more correct lense settings, curtain setting, and precise surround sound systems with quieted air conditioning and auditorium noise isolation per the requirements of being certified as an all THX-certified theater as Lucas owns the THX sound system and wanted to boost support for the quality of certified THX theaters by building several of his own in California. My local two “Cinemastar” Theaters were awesome! I total I visited 3 CinemaStar locations and for many years found them to be superior to all the other theatre chains and I avoided patronizing the other chains because they all seemed so outdated or run-down comparatively speaking, but then with the advent of new AMC multi-mega auditorium theaters with THX, Dolby Digital, and even IMAX popping up here and there, it seems Mr Lucas kind of let go of his theater, one by one they became also run-down, their luster faded, and they shut-dowN both of my local theaters in Riverside and neighboring downtown San Bernardino as well. The one on Allesandro was the last one to close and I believe despite the name change to “Galaxy” it still retains the look of the original CinemaStar theatre with the fiberoptic star light ceiling that twinkles until the movie starts to show and the great sound system, but now upgraded for digital projection of course as there ae no-longer any theaters that can play new feature movies unless they upgraded to digital because Hollywood no longer produces or ferries copies of movies about on those heavy analog celluloid movie reels. They are now a thing of the past like rotary phones and NTSC analog television broadcasts.. So when people pick an icon to represent a movie, what o they use anymore but still an icon that looks like an old movie film reel. Lol. It appears CinemaStars are all out of business now. They don’t even have a website so, Lucas may have liquidated the entire chain by now. Not sure.

Decided to create a new Wiki about the former CinemaStar Luxury Theaters. Could definitely use some help to make it better. /47.149.231.183 (talk) 18:03, 3 December 2019 (UTC)/