Showplace Performance Centre
292 George Street N,
Peterborough,
ON
K9J 3H2
292 George Street N,
Peterborough,
ON
K9J 3H2
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The actual closing date for the Trent Cinemas is August 10, 1995. The same operators would later open a 7-plex down the street two years later.
Once briefly operated by Cineplex Odeon.
Peterborough’s 754-seat Odeon Theatre launched on December 16, 1947 with Trevor Howard in “Green For Danger” and a special newsreel on the Royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Philip (Duke of Edinburgh) which happened the previous month. Despite opening with a British film by Eagle Lion, the Odeon also shows American films as well at the time.
The Odeon would later become a first-run American house screening American films, competing against the neighboring Famous Players-operated Paramount Theatre, despite the Odeon Theatre later twinning in 1979. They both continued to compete following Canadian Odeon’s opening of the Cineplex 6 (or the Lansdowne Place 6) in 1980. Cineplex Odeon briefly operated the Odeon but fell into the hands of Ontario Cinemas, a separate branch of the Cineplex-Odeon chain in 1986.
That same year, it was renamed the Trent Cinemas, and continue operating until closing in 1995.
Website: https://www.showplace.org/ Box office phone: 705-742-7469