Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Odeon is a trading brand name of cinemas operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It retains the name of the Odeon cinema circuit first used in Britain in 1930. However it is today owned by and operated by Odeon UCI Cinemas Group and hardly resembles the past Odeon chain. UCI's ultimate parent is Terra Firma Capital Partners.The first Odeon cinema was opened by Oscar Deutsch in 1928, in Brierley Hill in the West Midlands, although initially called "Picture House". The first cinema to use the Odeon brand name was Deutsch's cinema at Perry Barr, Birmingham in 1930. Ten years later Odeon was part of The Rank Organisation who continued their ownership of the circuit for a further sixty years. Through a number of sales and acquisitions in the early part of the 21st Century the company was purchased by its current owners Terra Firma Capital Partners. Terra Firma absorbed Odeon into UCI Cinemas to form Odeon UCI Cinemas Group. Most UCI cinemas then took the Odeon brand name."@en }
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- Odeon_Cinemas abstract "Odeon is a trading brand name of cinemas operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It retains the name of the Odeon cinema circuit first used in Britain in 1930. However it is today owned by and operated by Odeon UCI Cinemas Group and hardly resembles the past Odeon chain. UCI's ultimate parent is Terra Firma Capital Partners.The first Odeon cinema was opened by Oscar Deutsch in 1928, in Brierley Hill in the West Midlands, although initially called "Picture House". The first cinema to use the Odeon brand name was Deutsch's cinema at Perry Barr, Birmingham in 1930. Ten years later Odeon was part of The Rank Organisation who continued their ownership of the circuit for a further sixty years. Through a number of sales and acquisitions in the early part of the 21st Century the company was purchased by its current owners Terra Firma Capital Partners. Terra Firma absorbed Odeon into UCI Cinemas to form Odeon UCI Cinemas Group. Most UCI cinemas then took the Odeon brand name.".