Cinema City Czech Republic
Brand of multiplex cinemas in Europe
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Company type | Corp. |
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Industry | Cinemas |
Headquarters | Prague, Czech Republic |
Website | www.cinemacity.cz |
Cinema City is a brand of multiplex cinemas in eastern and central Europe, run by the Israeli company Cinema City International (CCI). In Europe it has cinemas in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. CCI also runs a chain of Israeli multiplexes under the name of Rav-Hen.
On 19 January 2011, as a part of a bigger European deal, Cinema City acquired 8 multiplexes (4 of them in Prague) from Palace Cinemas with 65 screens.
Current multiplex locations
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Active cinemas:
- Brno
- Olympia - 10 screens, opened October 1999
- Velký Špalíček - 1413 seats, 7 screens, opened August 2001
- Prague
- Slovanský dům - 10 screens, opened 2000
- Nový Smíchov - 11 screens + 4DX, opened November 2001
- Obchodní centrum Letňany - 12 screens, opened October 2002
- Metropole Zličin - 1841 seats, 10 screens, opened December 2002
- Palac Flora - 2150 seats, 8 screens + IMAX, the only 70mm IMAX in Europe, opened March 2003
- Westfield Chodov - 18 screens - 1 4DX - 3 VIP, opened October 2017
- Other
- Pilsen Plaza/Plzeň Plaza (Plzeň) - 1720 seats, 10 screens + 4DX, opened 2008
- AFI Palace (Pardubice) - 988 seats, 8 screens, opened January 2009
- Forum Liberec (Liberec) - 5 screens, opened September 2010
- OC Forum (Ústí nad Labem) - opened 2010
- Nová Karolína (Ostrava) - 8 screens
Former cinemas:
- Novodvorská Plaza (Prague) - 848 seats, 5 screens, opened March 2006 and ceased operation in December 2008 due to low visit rate
- Galaxie (Prague) - 1728 seats, 9 screens, opened April 1996 as the first multiplex cinema in the Czech Republic and ceased operation in September 2019.[1]
Current IMAX locations
Outside Poland CCI runs one IMAX cinema in Prague, alongside Flora multiplex.
Corporate governance
The board of directors has three members:
- Mooky Greidinger (CEO)
- Amos Weltsch (COO)
- Israel Greidinger (CFO)
See also
References
- ^ "První české multikino zavřelo, z Galaxie na Hájích odešli diváci na Chodov". idnes.cz (in Czech). 19 September 2019.
External links
- Cinema City Czech website (Czech and English version)