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18 quid? Wasn't that the total shooting budget for Ben-Hur?

Brian - The Bond films premiered at the ODEON Leicester Square, not the Empire, though to be accurate, some of them opened at the London Pavilion where A Hard Day's Night opened. But it's the Odeon that hosted all those glam charity premieres including the annual Royal Film Performance.

I agree - the demise of Cinerama was regrettable, though it faded along with 70mm in general and I think all large format photography was simply a victim of fashion. The story has often been told - how Easy Rider/Graduate/Bonnie and Clyde revolutionised the way Hollywood made movies and how...

Personally, I thought the early IMAX films were quite impressive - I saw them in locations as diverse as Washington DC and Jakarta. But last year I went to see the Bond movie Skyfall in a so-called IMAX cinema near where I live in the UK and I thought it was terrible. It's not IMAX which was...

It is sad but I guess inevitable. I actually remember going to the original Empire in 1960 and seeing Ben-Hur - and that visit, as a schoolboy, sort of changed my life and I thought, hey, I rather like this cinema thing. The cinema had a grand circle in those days and incredibly elaborate...

Sorry, DP 70, can you clarify: which auditorium is to be remodelled: is it the Empire or the Odeon?