Category: film and movies

It’s late October 2022 Saturday 1430 Hours Beijing time during of the designated month week of on the Shanghai walking autumnally walking in Xintiandi and Middle Huaihai Road…. Xintiandi 新天地, Hong Kong Plaza 香港广场, Middle Huaihai Road 淮海中路, TX Huaihai TX淮海, Cathay Theatre 国泰电影院, IAPM Mall 环贸商场…..

Xintiandi 新天地Shanghai Xintiandi is an urban tourist attraction with Shanghai’s historical and cultural features and a fusion of Chinese and Western styles. Shanghai Xintiandi is based on the old Shikumen building district, a symbol of Shanghai’s modern architecture.

Shanghai Xintiandi (Xintiandi·Shanghai) located in the center of Shanghai, is an urban tourist attraction showing Shanghai’s historical and cultural features. Leisure Pedestrian Street for entertainment and culture. Based on the fusion of Chinese and Western and the combination of old and new, it integrates Shanghai’s traditional Shikumen lanes with modern new buildings.

For the first time, the original residential function of Shikumen was changed, and the commercial operation function was innovatively endowed, transforming this old house reflecting Shanghai’s history and culture into a fashion, leisure, cultural and entertainment center with functions such as catering, shopping and performing arts. Walking in Xintiandi is like going back in time, like being in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s, but stepping into the interior of each building, it is very modern and fashionable, and you can personally experience the unique concept of Xintiandi. This organic combination and patchwork the ingenious arrangement forms a Shanghai symphony, allowing tourists at home and abroad to taste the unique culture.

Hong Kong Plaza 香港广场Shanghai Hong Kong Plaza – The total floor area of ​​Hong Kong Plaza is about 100,000 square meters. Divided into south and north buildings, the first floor of the basement is connected to the entrance and exit of the subway station, and there is a bridge across Huaihai Road on the third floor, connecting the buildings featuring The first five floors of Hong Kong Plaza are shopping malls, restaurants, cinemas, casinos, and food courts. On the upper cover, two 38-storey buildings will be built, the 6th to 30th floors are office buildings, and the 31st to 38th floors are supporting apartments. It is a comprehensive building integrating commercial trade, office, shopping, entertainment consumption and home furnishing in the city. Hong Kong Plaza is a Hong Kong-Shanghai joint venture developed by Shanghai Lixing Real Estate Co., Ltd., a joint venture between Hong Kong Lai Sun Group , Shanghai Huangpu District Housing Construction and Development Corporation, Shanghai Sifang Real Estate Industrial Company and Hong Kong Dakang Co., Ltd. Co., Ltd. is a multi-functional, all-weather commercial, cultural, entertainment and catering center. Hong Kong and Shanghai work hand in hand, with a clear reputation.

Middle Huaihai Road 淮海中路Huaihai Middle Road is located in the center of Shanghai, China, starting from Xizang South Road in the east and ending at Huashan Road in the west , with a total length of 5.1 kilometers. It is connected to Shanghai Xintiandi leisure business district, Sinan mansion area, Dapuqiao business district and Shanghai Cultural Plaza in the south, and Garden Hotel and Jinjiang Hotel high-end hotel area in the north. It is one of the most prosperous commercial streets in Shanghai. It was established in 1900. It’s called Xijiang Road. In May 1950 , it was renamed “Middle Huaihai Road” to commemorate the victory of the Huaihai Campaign….

Huaihai Middle Road has the same word-of-mouth status as Nanjing East Road, Hengshan Road, Rongle East Road, Fuzhou Road , and Sichuan North Road in Shanghai. If Nanjing East Road is a symbol of Shanghai’s commercial prosperity, then Huaihai Middle Road is more a taste, a style. They are recognized as the most modern, fashionable, “accent” and sentimental streets in Shanghai; Huaihai Middle Road is lined with modern buildings, fashionable and famous products, warm and elegant shopping environment, many high-end restaurants and entertainment stores, and superior hotel services. Huaihai Middle Road shopping district has added a lot of color. The centuries-old Huaihai Road, famous for its elegance and romance, is a luxurious and elegant shopping paradise in the eyes of everyone. And its lasting vitality lies in the pace of keeping pace with the times and the mind of being inclusive of all rivers since its birth in 1900 for more than a hundred years…

Cathay Theatre 国泰电影院, A five-star theatre located in Huangpu District, Haishi Cathay Cinema, formerly known as CATHAY THEATER, is located at No. 870 Huaihai Middle Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai (at the intersection of Maoming South Road), close to Exit 3 of South Shaanxi Road Station of Metro Line 1. Built in 1930, it was designed by Hongda Matheson. It has a reinforced concrete structure. The outer wall is made of purple red Taishan bricks and white caulking, which is a typical Art Deco style.

On January 1, 1932, the Cathay Pacific Theater officially opened to the public. The slogan published on the “Shenzhen” that day was: “The rich and magnificent are the leaders of Shanghai’s cinemas, and the refinement and comfort are the culmination of modern science.”

After liberation, it was renamed Cathay Cinema, and during the “Cultural Revolution” it was once renamed People’s Cinema.

In the first half of 2003, the Cathay Pacific Cinema underwent a comprehensive overhaul. The original 978-seat flat-sloping projection hall was transformed into three comfortable and luxurious stepped movie projection halls with different styles, and all projection and ticketing electronics were updated or added. Display, heating and cooling air-conditioning, water and electricity, fire sprinkler and other facilities. The interior design and construction of the theater are exquisite, elegant, comfortable and warm.

Among them: 225 seats in the first hall, red tone, warm and brilliant; 236 seats in the second hall, blue tone, quiet and warm; gray tone in the third hall, elegant and peaceful. The screens in halls 1 and 2 are 11.2 meters wide, and the screens in hall 3 are 8 meters wide. All halls are equipped with CP650 full-digital stereo audio equipment.

Cathay Pacific Cinemas shows at least one free public welfare movie for the community every month, and often holds special sessions for the elderly, the disabled, and students. From June 28, 2005, the half-price Tuesday will be implemented, and from February 22, 2006 onwards in the city The first to launch on Wednesdays is also half price all day.

In order to comply with the trend of film digital projection, in July 2008, all movie halls were equipped with advanced digital film projectors.

Brilliant performance, good image. For decades, Cathay Cinemas has held many “audience meetings”, “new film premieres”, “new film press conferences”, etc., successively held “Asian Film Week”, “Soviet Film Week”, “North Korean Film Week”, “Excellent Peking Opera Film Retrospective Exhibition”, “Australian Film Festival Film Festival”, “French Film Festival” and other activities.

Since 1993, it has been the designated screening unit of the previous Shanghai International Film Festival. In 2005, the box office was 10.38 million yuan, and since 2006, the box office has exceeded 11 million yuan. Both hit record highs in theatre history.

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