Famous Players Colossus Woodbridge
3555 Highway 7 West,
Vaughan,
ON
L4L 0B6
3555 Highway 7 West,
Vaughan,
ON
L4L 0B6
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This opened on February 12th, 1999 as Canada’s largest cinema. AMC took the lead 3 months later until they closed off screens in 2011 making the Colossus Canada’s largest again. I posted the grand opening ad here.
This is another photo of the Colossus Woodbridge.
Here is a photo of the Colossus at night.
It’s just that the cinemas themselves leave little to the imagination. Yeah, the lobby in this cinema is just as pretty as the Colossus and Scotiabank closer to me in Vancouver, but the auditoriums themselves are just black boxes with screens too close to the seats.
I also find it kind of crazy that this cinema sits across a highway from the AMC Interchange 30. 49 screens total!!!
This most remarkable design is shown in a full color photo in John Lindsay’s book about Canada’s movie houses: PALACES OF THE NIGHT, on pages 131, 219 and 220. It really does look like a flying saucer has landed from the outside, and indoors the 3-story-high lobby brings back some of the majesty and dazzle that was so characteristic of the movie palaces of yore, as it takes one into a fantasy land of a space theme! If more movie houses were built like this, people would go for the experience alone.