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Vue, Piccadilly 5Vue, Piccadilly 5
Prince Charles CinemaPlaza, Leyton
Cinema

Plaza, Piccadilly

19 Lower Regent Street, SW1Y 4LR

Known for most of its life as the Plaza, Paramount Pictures originally opened the cinema in the 1920s.

Piccadilly Circus

Area:Central

Borough:Westminster

Prince Charles CinemaPlaza, Leyton
Vue, Piccadilly

Plaza, Piccadilly

Area

Central

Open

1926-//-Present

Borough

Westminster
Cinema opened: 1926
First film: Nell Gwyn
Temp. closure: 2001—2004 † (Redevelopment)
Screens: 5
Capacity: 40, 59, 88, 126, 168
Orig. screens: 1
Orig. capacity: 1,896
Usage: Cinema (Vue Piccadilly)
Architect: Frank T. VeritySamuel Beverley
Style: Italian Renaissance
Listed: II
AKA: Plaza, Paramount, Universal, Apollo, Vue
Circuit: Paramount (1926—2001)Apollo (2004—2013)Vue (2013— Present)

† approximate dates

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