List of cinemas in Hong Kong

This is a list of current and former cinemas in Hong Kong.

Broadway Circuit

PALACE ifc

Former Broadway Olympian City cinema

• Broadway Cinematheque
• Broadway Cyberport, at The Arcade, Cyberport
• Broadway Hollywood, at Plaza Hollywood
• Broadway Kingswood Ginza, at Kingswood Ginza
• Broadway Kwai Fong, at Metroplaza
• Broadway Mongkok, on Sai Yeung Choi Street South
• Broadway The ONE, at The ONE
• Broadway Tsuen Wan, at Tsuen Wan Plaza
• PALACE apm, at apm
• PALACE ifc, at IFC Mall
• MOViE MOViE, at Cityplaza
• MY CINEMA YOHO MALL, on Yuen Long

Former cinemas

• Broadway Kornhill, at Kornhill Plaza; closed in 2002; succeeded by MCL Kornhill
• Broadway Kowloon Bay, at Amoy Plaza; closed in March 2009
• Broadway Olympian City, at Olympian City; closed on 16 September 2013
• Broadway Yuen Long, at Sun Yuen Long Centre; closed on 6 March 2013

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AMC Cinemas

• AMC Pacific Place, at Pacific Place, Admiralty, Hong Kong

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Former cinemas

• AMC Festival Walk, at Festival Walk, Kowloon Tong – now MCL Festival Grand

UA Cinemas

Interior of UA iSQUARE IMAX theatre

Former UA Citygate

• CINE TIMES, at Times Square; opened in November 2013^[3]
• UA Cine Moko, at Grand Century Place, Mong Kok
• UA Cinema @ Airport, at Terminal 2, Hong Kong International Airport; houses the third (chronologically) IMAX theater in Hong Kong^[4]
• UA iSQUARE, at iSQUARE; houses the second (chronologically) IMAX theater in Hong Kong^[5]
• UA MegaBox, at MegaBox; houses the first (chronologically) IMAX theater in Hong Kong^[5]
• UA Shatin, at New Town Plaza; opened in 1985 as the first UA cinema in Hong Kong^[6]

Former cinemas

• UA Langham Place, succeeded by Cinema City
• UA Pacific Place, at Pacific Place; closed on 27 January 2006, succeeded by AMC Pacific Place^[7]
• UA Telford, succeeded by MCL Telford
• UA Times Square, at Times Square; opened in December 1993, closed in February 2012;^[8] the site was replaced by a Louis Vuitton store, and the UA theater was relocated to the 12th to 14th floor of the mall^[9][10]
• UA Whampoa, opened in May 1985, closed in October 2009; succeeded by GH Whampoa^[5]

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• Windsor Cinema, at Windsor House, Causeway Bay; closed on September 2015, succeeded by MCL Grand Windsor Cinema
• UA Citygate, at Citygate; closed on 18 September 2016
• UA Cityplaza, at Cityplaza; closed on 23 February 2017
• UA tmtplaza, at Tuen Mun Town Plaza; closed on 10 March 2018

Golden Harvest Cinemas

Interior of Grand Ocean theatre

• Grand Ocean, at Ocean Centre, Tsim Sha Tsui
• GH Citywalk, at Citywalk 2
• GH Fanling, at Fanling Town Centre
• GH Whampoa, at Whampoa Plaza, Whampoa Garden^[12][13]
• the sky, at Olympian City 2

Former cinemas

• GH Hollywood, at Plaza Hollywood; closed on March 31, 2011; became Broadway Hollywood^[14]
• GH Mongkok, at Grand Century Place, 193 Prince Edward Road West
• Golden Gateway, at The Gateway

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• GH Tsing Yi, at Maritime Square; closed on January 3, 2018; succeeded by UA Maritime

Newport Circuit

Dynasty Theatre in Mong Kok Road

• Dynasty Theatre, on Mong Kok Road, Mong Kok
• Hyland Theatre, on Heung Sze Wui Road, Tuen Mun
• Newport Theatre, on Soy Street, Mong Kok
• President Theatre, on Jaffe Road, Causeway Bay

Former cinemas

• Century Theatre

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MCL Cinemas

STAR Cinema

• The Grand Cinema
• MCL JP Cinema, at JP Plaza, Causeway Bay
• MCL Kornhill Cinema, at Kornhill Plaza
• MCL Metro Cinema, at Metro City, Phase 2
• MCL South Horizons Cinema, at South Horizons
• MCL Telford Cinema, at Telford Gardens
• STAR Cinema, at PopCorn, Tseung Kwan O

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• Grand Windsor Cinema, at Windsor House, Causeway Bay
• MCL Festival Grand Cinema, at Festival Walk, Kowloon Tong

Chinachem Cinema Circuit

Former Chinachem Golden Plaza

• Paris London New York Milano Cinema, at Hong Lai Garden, Tuen Mun

Former cinema

• Chinachem Golden Plaza, in East Tsim Sha Tsui; opened in February, 1988, closed in May 2013^[18][19]

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Pegasus Entertainment Holdings Limited

• Cinema City, at Langham Place^[21]

Emperor Cinemas

• Entertainment Building, Queen's Road Central / D'Aguilar Street, Central^[22]

Other cinemas

1/150 scale model of the former Capitol Theatre

Yau Ma Tei Theatre in 2012

• Cine-Art House, at Amoy Plaza, Amoy Gardens; established in 1988 at the ground floor of Sun Hung Kai Centre, in Wan Chai; closed in 2006 and reopened in 2009 within Amoy Garden Shopping Arcade^[23][24]
• Hong Kong Film Archive
• Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre, renamed in 2018
• L Cinema, on Mong Lung Street, Shau Kei Wan; opened on 8 February 2016^[25]
• Lux Theatre, on Bulkeley Street, Hung Hom; opened in 1971^[26]
• Ma On Shan Classics Cinema, at Sunshine City
• The Metroplex, at Kowloonbay International Trade & Exhibition Centre, Kowloon Bay; opened on 14 February 2014^[27]
• Stanley Ho Space Theatre, within the Hong Kong Space Museum
• Yuen Long Cinema, on Yuen Long Pau Cheung Square, Yuen Long^[28]

Former cinemas

• Brightly Star, closed in 2008
• Capitol Theatre (京華戲院), Jardine's Bazaar, Causeway Bay; opened in 1952, closed in 1977^[29]
• Fanling Town Centre Cinema, in Fanling; opened in 1993, closed in 2006^[30]
• Golden Valley Theatre (金茂坪戲院), Hiu Kwong Street, Sau Mau Ping; opened in 1978, closed in 1992^[31][32]
• Isis Theatre (新都戲院), Moreton Terrace, Causeway Bay; opened in 1966, closed in 1999.
• Kwun Chung Theatre, at 30 Kwun Chung Street, Kwun Chung; was Hong Kong's last adult cinema until it closed on March 15, 2011^[33][34]
• Lee Theatre; opened in 1927, closed in 1991.
• Lung Wah Theatre, at 117 Chung On Street, Tsuen Wan; opened in 1962; closed in 1996^[35]
• Nanyang Theatre (南洋戲院), Morrison Hill Road, Wan Chai; opened in 1966, closed in 1989.
• Olympia Theatre (國都戲院), Power Street, North Point; opened in 1965, closed in 1995.
• Park Theatre (百樂戲院), Tung Lo Wan Road, Causeway Bay; opened in 1970, closed in 1997.
• Peng Chau Theatre (坪洲戲院), Peng Chau; opened in 1978, closed in the late 1980s
• Queen's Theatre (皇后戲院), at the corner of Queen's Road Central and Theatre Lane, opened in 1924, closed for reconstruction in 1958, reopened in 1961, closed in 2007;^[36] the site is now occupied by LHT Tower
• Royal Cinema, closed in 2007
• Silver Star Cinema, closed in 1999
• Silver Theatre, in Kwun Tong; opened in 1963, closed in 2009; the building was demolished in 2013^[37]
• State Theatre, in North Point; operated from 1959 to 1997; formerly the Empire Theatre, which operated from 1952 to 1957
• Sunbeam Cinema, renovated into a stage theater in 2007
• Tai Ping Theatre (太平戲院)
• Tuen Mun Cinema, closed in 2008 due to renovation in Tuen Mun Town Plaza
• Yau Ma Tei Theatre, opened in the late 1920s, closed in 1988
• Yuen Long Cinema, reopened as independent cinema

References

• 黃夏柏 (2015). 香港戲院搜記．歲月鈎沉. 香港: 中華書局.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cinemas in Hong Kong.

• Wong, Cindy Hing-yuk; McDonogh, Gary W. (2001). "Consuming Cinemas: Reflections on Movies and Market-places in Contemporary Hong Kong". In Mathews, Gordon; Lui, Tai-lok. Consuming Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 81–116. ISBN 9789622095465.
  • See p. 111 for the number of cinemas for the years between 1952 and 1996.
• Tube Hong Kong cinema list