Cinema City Czech Republic
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Cinema City is a brand of multiplex cinemas
Movie theater
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 in eastern and central Europe
Europe
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, run by the Israel
Israel
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i company Cinema City International
Cinema City International
Cinema City International is an Israeli-based international cinema company which operates multiplex and IMAX cinemas in both Israel and Europe. CCI currently operates a total of 367 screens of which more than two thirds are outside Israel....

 (CCI). In Europe it has cinemas in Hungary
Hungary
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, Poland
Poland
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 and the Czech Republic
Czech Republic
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. CCI also runs a chain of Israeli multiplexes under the name of Rav-Hen.
On 19.1.2011 cinema city bought, as a part of a bigger european deal, 8 multiplexes (4 of them in Prague
Prague
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) from Palace Cinemas
Palace Cinemas
Palace Cinemas is a central European cinema chain with multiplex cinemas in the Czech Republic , Slovakia and Hungary...

 with 65 screens.

Current multiplex locations

  • Galaxie (Prague
    Prague
    Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

    ) - 1728 seats, 9 screens, opened 2001
  • Metropole Zličin (Prague
    Prague
    Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

    ) - 1841 seats, 10 screens, opened Dec 2002
  • Palac Flora (Prague
    Prague
    Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

    ) - 2150 seats, 8 screens + IMAX
    IMAX
    IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...

    , opened Mar 2003
  • Pilsen Plaza/Plzeň Plaza (Pilsen) - 1720 seats, 10 screens, opened 2008
  • AFI Palace (Pardubice) - 988 seats, 8 screens, opened Jan 2009


Canceled cinemas:
  • Novodvorská Plaza (Prague
    Prague
    Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

    ) - 848 seats, 5 screens, opened 2006 - closed Dec 2008 (Due to very low visit rate)

Current IMAX locations

Outside Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 CCI
Cinema City International
Cinema City International is an Israeli-based international cinema company which operates multiplex and IMAX cinemas in both Israel and Europe. CCI currently operates a total of 367 screens of which more than two thirds are outside Israel....

 runs one IMAX
IMAX
IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...

 cinema in Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

, alongside Flora multiplex.

Corporate Governance

Company's Management Board consist of three members:
  • Mr. Moshe (Mooky) Greidinger (CEO)
  • Mr. Amos Weltsch (COO
    Chief operating officer
    A Chief Operating Officer or Director of Operations can be one of the highest-ranking executives in an organization and comprises part of the "C-Suite"...

    )
  • Mr. Israel Greidinger (CFO)

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