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Landmark Pen Centre
221 Glendale Avenue,
Pen Centre Mall,
St. Catharines,
ON
L2T 2K9
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Additional Info
Operated by: Landmark Cinemas of Canada
Previously operated by: Cineplex Odeon, Empire Theatres, Famous Players
Functions: Movies (First Run)
Previous Names: Pen Centre Cinemas, Silvercity St. Catharines, Studio 8 Pen Centre, Empire Theatres Pen Centre
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
905.682.9110
Manager:
905.602.8843
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Famous Players opened the twin screen Pen Centre Cinemas on August 25, 1966 with Audry Hepburn in “How to Steal a Million” & “Sophia Loren in "Lady L”. It became a 3-screen theatre on August 5, 1977. It was reopened on November 7, 1997 by Famous Players as a SilverCity theatre with eight screens. Seating capacity was listed as 2,005, with the largest auditorium seating 362 and the smallest seating 167.
It was taken over by Cineplex Odeon in 2005, and then Empire Theatres in September 2005. At some point after Empire took over, two more screens were added.
All auditoriums have stadium seating.
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Recent comments (view all 13 comments)
I believe this was the first theatre opened under the SilverCity banner.
Opening date was on November 7, 1997. This was the first SilverCity cinema built by Famous Players.
I can’t find any photos on the internet of this theatre before Empire Theatre’s takeover. Did this theatre have SilverCity or Famous Players branding?
CorusFTW, it was a SilverCity theatre at one point.
What I meant was that I couldn’t find any photographic evidence that it was branded as a “SilverCity,” as the only photos I could find are its Empire and Landmark years.
“It was taken over by Cineplex Odeon in 2005, and then Empire Theatres in September 2005. At some point after Empire took over, two more screens were added.”
Empire Theatres acquired the theater in 2005 because Cineplex had to sell off 27 cinemas due to antitrust concerns.
Opened As Pen Centre Cinemas 1 & 2 on Page 2 of
Opened in the north end of the mall on August 25th, 1966 with two screens.
Famous Players Pen Centre Cinemas opening 25 Aug 1966, Thu The Standard (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada) Newspapers.com
Largest screen was split up and reopened on August 5th, 1977. Another ad posted.
Closed January 6th, 1997 for rebuilding.
Pen Cinema closing 10 Jan 1997, Fri The Standard (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada) Newspapers.com