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ABC Cinemas
Company type
Cinema chain
Industry
Motion picture projection activities media industry
Founded
1927 (original) 1995 (revival)
Defunct
1986 (original) 2000 (revival) 2021 (brand)
Fate
Acquired by the Cannon Group (original) Merged with Odeon Cinemas (revival)
Successor
Cannon Cinemas (original) Odeon Cinemas (revival)
Headquarters
London
,
United Kingdom
Parent
Associated British Picture Corporation (1927-1969) EMI (1969-1979) Thorn EMI (1979-1986) Cannon Group (1986-1992) MGM (1992-1995) Cinven (1995-2000)
ABC Cinemas (Associated British Cinemas) was a cinema chain in the United Kingdom. Originally a wholly owned subsidiary of Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC), it operated between the 1920s and the 1980s. The brand name was reused in the 1990s until 2000.
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Pictures Studios and its Elstree Studios complex and merged it with his ABCCinemas circuit, renaming the company British International Pictures. The Wardour...
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significantly to become the largest, controlling 180 cinemas by 1928 and up to 300 by 1929. Maxwell formed ABCCinemas in 1927 which became a subsidiary of BIP and...
and their facilities at Elstree Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood and ABCCinemas. Thorn EMI Video was established in 1981. Thorn EMI released films on...
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and sixpence (42½p). He also played in working men's clubs, pubs and ABCcinemas with his friend George Shears and later sang with big bands of the time...
Kingdom. Virgin Group bought the cinemas for £195m, and subsequently sold 90 of the chain's smallest cinemas to Cinven and ABC for £70m to concentrate on multiplexes...
of twinning, the Elephant and Castle Cinema was acquired by ABCCinemas and split into a complex of three cinemas and also a luxury lounge was introduced...
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