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Cinéma Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin
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350 Rue Emery, Montreal, QC H2X 1J1, CAN
Plans called for 20 screens. The final build came in at 17. Cinéma Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin opened on December 12, 1997, developed by France-Film and designed by Ruccolo-Faubert Architects. It began as the first francophone megaplex of its kind in North America. Cineplex Entertainment runs it now. The building also houses Cineplex’s Quebec headquarters on its upper floors.
Theatre Overview
Ruccolo-Faubert Architects drew up plans in 1996 for a 20-screen complex. The building that went up on rue Émery got 17. Doors opened December 12, 1997.
France-Film developed the project. Cineplex Odeon ran operations at the opening. Loews Cineplex held the keys for a stretch after that. Cineplex Entertainment has had the building in its portfolio for many years now.
Location was the whole point. A full multiplex right inside the Quartier Latin. Most new-build Canadian cinemas that decade were going up in suburban shopping centres way out on the edges of the island.
Opening week’s slate set the tone. Les Boys topped the marquee, the Quebec hockey comedy that became a cultural event that December. Alien: Résurrection was booked alongside. Anastasia. Frissons 2 ran across three of the rooms.
Upstairs, Cineplex’s Quebec head office. Downstairs is what the public sees.
Screens & Presentation
Curved screens sit in every auditorium. Not the standard choice for a Canadian multiplex build. The shape was a 1996-era design decision.
Digital projection runs through the building. 3D is offered in select auditoriums for the titles released in that format. No IMAX on-site. No UltraAVX branding here.
17 screens total. 2,897 seats across all of them. Around 170 per house on average. The biggest rooms run a few hundred seats for opening weekends.
Sound is digital surround. Assistive listening devices sit at the box office on request, free of charge.
Seating & Auditorium Features
Not the luxury recliner format. Standard fixed seating in most auditoriums, stadium tiering throughout.
The 1997 design used sloped floors in all 17 rooms. That was the norm for new-build multiplexes at the time. It remains in place. Cup holders in the armrests. Rows wide enough to let a seated patron pass without anyone standing up.
Total capacity is 2,897. The largest auditoriums run a few hundred seats for opening-weekend releases. Smaller rooms handle extended runs and independent titles.
No in-seat service. No food-and-drink servers. A traditional multiplex with a concession stand.
Programming & Showtimes
French-language versions are often the default booking on major releases. Rare situation for a Canadian multiplex outside Quebec.
Les Boys. December 1997. That was the opening-week marquee. Quebec features have held a weekly slot on the schedule pretty much without a break ever since.
Everything major plays twice. Once in French, once in English. The French booking usually pulls the heavier weekly lineup.
Weekday openings run early afternoon. Weekends go back further, sometimes before noon for family titles. Friday and Saturday last shows push past eleven more often than not.
Smaller rooms run independents and holdover titles. Festival tie-ins a few times a year, usually whatever’s happening up the street.
Ticketing & Pricing
Tuesdays are discount night at every Cineplex in the country. This location runs the same promo. Otherwise, adult tickets on evenings and weekends run between fourteen and sixteen dollars. 3D pushes the ticket a few dollars higher.
Scene+ members save on every visit. CineClub stacks on top of that. Student and senior rates get posted throughout the week.
Cineplex.com for booking. The app does the same. Walk-ups go through the box office.
Prices shift. 514-849-2244 during the day will tell you what’s current.
Concessions
Starbucks. In the lobby. Not standard equipment for a Montreal cinema. The café draws a UQAM student crowd that comes through for coffee and leaves without seeing a movie.
Hot food goes past popcorn. Pizza slices. Wraps move fast. Poutine, this being the Quartier Latin.
Bar sits off the lobby. Beer and wine. Cocktails on request.
An arcade next door runs billiards and video games.
Accessibility
Elevators run between the floors. That matters here. 17 auditoriums are distributed across several levels.
Assistive listening devices live at the box office. Free. Pick one up when you grab your tickets.
Wheelchair spaces sit in every auditorium. Companion seating right beside them. Accessible washrooms on the main floors. Designated spots in the garage underneath.
Specific access questions, call 514-849-2244 before you come. Worth doing that rather than showing up and finding out at the door.
Location & Parking
Two minutes on foot from Berri-UQAM. That’s how most people get here. Three metro lines converge at Berri. Busiest interchange in the city’s system.
350 rue Émery is the address. One block east of Saint-Denis, between Saint-Denis itself and Sanguinet, in the Ville-Marie borough.
Parking sits underneath the building. Entry from rue Émery. Complexe Desjardins runs a bigger garage about six hundred metres west on René-Lévesque. Metered street spots exist but fill by early evening.
Old Montreal is a fifteen-minute walk south. The Quartier des Spectacles festival grounds sit right next door, going the other way.
Local Area Context
40,000 UQAM students. That’s the dominant demographic of the district. Cégep du Vieux-Montréal piles thousands more on top. Nowhere else in central Montreal packs this many students into so few blocks.
Across Boulevard René-Lévesque sits the Grande Bibliothèque du Québec. 2005 opening. The institutional anchor of the area is now. Cinémathèque québécoise is three blocks north. Théâtre Saint-Denis runs five minutes up the same street, a 2,200-seat room with a century of programming behind it.
Saint-Denis has had a rough run of years. Pandemic first. Inflation after that. Construction sites up and down the street for going on three years now. A lot of the independent cafés and bookshops from the 2000s have gone dark. Commercial rent did most of the killing.
The district’s Société de développement commercial reports pedestrian traffic up sixteen-plus percent on the year, though. The street’s not empty.
Quartier des Spectacles sits immediately west. That’s the festival district. Jazz Fest runs through every summer. Just for Laughs, too. Montréal en Lumière brings winter weeks to the schedule. A summer Friday on the block is a different animal entirely.
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