Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema

Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema

The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema in 2014.
Former names
  • 1941 (Midtown)
  • 1967 (Capri)
  • 1973 (Eden)
  • 1979 (Bloor)
  • 2012 (Bloor Hot Docs)
General information
Type movie theatre
Address 506 Bloor St W
Town or city Toronto, ON
Country Canada
Completed 1941
Other information
Seating capacity 710

The Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema (formerly the Bloor Cinema and the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema) is a movie theatre in The Annex district of downtown Toronto, Canada, located at 506 Bloor Street West, near its intersection with Bathurst Street and the Bathurst subway station.

History

In 1913, the Madison Picture Palace opened at this location. It was demolished in 1940 and rebuilt as the Midtown Theatre. It was renamed the Capri in 1967. In 1973, it became the Eden, showing adult films. It became the Bloor in 1979 and returned to showing first-run films. One year later, it was sold, becoming an independent repertory-style theatre. It was sold to the Blue Ice Group in 2011 and to the Hot Docs Festival in 2016.[1]

For a large part of recent history, the Bloor Cinema was a second-run theatre, showing movies that had already been in theatres, usually before they were released on video and DVD. The theatre screened classic films, art films, and cult films. The Rocky Horror Picture Show was traditionally screened with a live cast on Halloween and on the last Friday of every month. The Bloor Cinema was repeatedly selected as the best repertoire cinema in Toronto by Eye Weekly. The theatre was independent and it reopened after its renovation in 1999.

Hot Docs

Although it was shuttered in 2010, the Bloor Cinema's owner turned away developers looking to replace the theatre. In 2011, it was sold to the Blue Ice Group who manage the cinema in partnership with Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where it was renovated and reopened under the moniker the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema in 2012. It is the main location for Hot Docs, akin to the Toronto International Film Festival's Bell Lightbox.[1]

On June 23, 2016, it was announced that Hot Docs has purchased the Bloor Cinema from the Blue Ice Group, using a CA$4 million gift from the Rogers Foundation, and that the cinema would be rebranded as the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "History". Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. Retrieved June 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Hot Docs Receives $5-Million Gift From Rogers Foundation". Hot Docs. Retrieved June 23, 2016.
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