A new cinema is opening in Liverpool that you can book for your own private screening. The boutique-look room is hidden away in Liverpool’s beautiful Hope Street Hotel. The venue teased its secret new space on Instagram this week, and it looks like the perfect place for a post-lockdown night out. Read … [Read more...]
Liverpool’s lost multiplexes and what’s there now
We have seen many beautiful cinemas come and go... As many of us are missing going to our favourite cinema during the lockdown, we took a look back at some of our lost multiplexes over the years. Liverpool has seen many beautiful cinemas come and go, with derelict buildings left in their places or demolished sites of our favourite former … [Read more...]
Odeon cinema workers share nine secrets they’ve always wanted to tell customers
From catching people getting intimate in the dark to what they really think when people take their own snacks... Source: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/ … [Read more...]
Footage from 1999 of old London Road Odeon before demolition is sure to bring back memories
Those of a certain age in Liverpool will remember the former Odeon cinema, on London Road. It opened for business back on October 15, 1934 and as well as screening the latest films it would host gigs and events. Some of the cinemas most famed moments in its 74 years include The Beatles playing there on December 8, 1963 and screening of A Hard Day's … [Read more...]
Dim the lights as we remember Merseyside’s great vanished cinemas
Long before the days of TVs, DVDs and streaming services, there used to be a cinema or picture house on nearly every street corner. Often housed in ornate buildings with names like the Rialto, the Roxy, or the Majestic, people would flock to them once, twice, even three times a week. It would not only be a film - the programme would also … [Read more...]
£30m black hole at Liverpool property company behind cinema conversion
Firm behind original Paramount scheme off London Road owes tens of millions of pounds to investors and creditors A property company set up to develop a former Liverpool cinema into city centre apartments has liabilities of over £30m. Pinnacle Student Developments Ltd was behind the development of the former Odeon Cinema on London Road in … [Read more...]
