Seating type Stadium seating Broke ground 1997 Opened 1999 Phone +1 416-368-5600 | Capacity 4500 seats Architect Michael Kirkland Province Ontario | |
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Former names Paramount Theatre (1999-2005) Location 259 Richmond Street West
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5V 3M6 Address 259 Richmond St W, Toronto, ON M5V 3M6, Canada Owners Uptown Theatre, Cineplex Entertainment Similar TIFF Bell Lightbox, Hot Docs Ted Rogers C, Revue Cinema, Royal Cinema, Princess of Wales Theatre | ||
Ddr x at scotiabank theatre toronto summary
The Scotiabank Theatre Toronto (formerly Paramount Theatre Toronto) is a major movie theatre at the RioCan Hall in the Entertainment District of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada at Richmond and John Street owned by Cineplex Entertainment and opened in 1999.
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Description
Scotiabank Theatre Toronto has a total of 14 auditoriums, including one with an IMAX screen, six with 3D screen, one UltraAVX auditorium with D-Box and a Barco Escape auditorium. The auditoriums and amenities are located on the third floor of the complex, accessed by escalator and elevator. The box office and the theatre entrance is located on Richmond Street West. The box office and escalator areas are decorated with large spaceships from the Star Trek series of films.
Food and drink options include Coca-Cola Freestyle, OutTakes (formerly New York Fries), Pizza Pizza (formerly Pizza Hut Express), Poptopia and Starbucks (formerly Famous Cafe). There is also a licensed lounge for alcoholic beverages. A booth sells beer in the theatre area. Tall beer cans purchased there can be consumed in the auditoriums.
The Cinescape arcade, formerly TechTown, features over a dozen games such as Dance Dance Revolution X (previously SuperNova 2), OutRun 2 and Pac-Man Battle Royale. Arcade visitor reviews consider the Pac-Man game to be in perfect condition, but the Dance Dance Revolution and OutRun 2 games have poorer ratings: "Bad" for neglecting dance pad maintenance and "Moderate" for some blur on the second racer's monitor, respectively.
History
The theatre opened in 1999 as the Paramount Theatre Toronto. The multiplex opened with 14 screens and 4,500 seats, and Toronto's first 3-D IMAX screen. The Paramount Theatre banner was the trademark of Paramount Pictures, the film studio of the former owner Famous Players' parent company Viacom. In 2005, Viacom sold Famous Players to Cinema Galaxy Income Fund — owner of Cineplex Galaxy Cinemas — creating the company Cineplex Entertainment. The theatre was rebranded as Scotiabank Theatre Toronto, under a sponsorship arrangement with Canadian bank Scotiabank.
The theatre was built as part of the CA$$70 million RioCan Hall complex (formerly Festival Hall) and planning for the complex and theatre started in 1994. The RioCan Hall also contains a Milestones Grill and Bar, and а Marshalls store. Until May 2014, the space housed a flagship Chapters store. From October 2007 until early 2010, the hall also housed CiRCA nightclub. Before CiRCA, the first tenant was the Playdium family entertainment centre. Though the nightclub and entertainment centre are now closed, Playdium also opened a smaller TechTown arcade in the movie theatre, which remains operational to this day as a Cinescape arcade.
The Theatre hosts the Toronto After Dark Film Festival annually. The festival moved to the Scotiabank Theatre in 2013. The festival is a showcase of horror, sci-fi, action and cult cinema.
The venue opened with a film-based IMAX 3D projector. In recent years, this was replaced to feature an IMAX with Laser projector instead. The laser projection system was the first in Canada and one of two in North America. One of the auditoriums was upgraded to UltraAVX by December 2010. This screen is about 1.32 times larger than a regular movie screen. Later, this auditorium had D-Box motion seats installed as an optional upgrade. Another auditorium was converted to the Barco Escape premium large format in July 2016. Star Trek Beyond was the first film played in this auditorium, with 20 minutes of the film being optimized for this format.