Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Metro Theatre is an adult movie theatre in Toronto, Canada. Located at 677 Bloor Street, it was open ten hours a day throughout the entire week before its closure in 2013. Built in 1938, it is one of the several Art Deco theatres built in Toronto in the 1930s by architects Kaplan and Sprachman. Metro Theatre opened in 1939 as a neighbourhood theatre showing second run films and B movies and in 1976 started to show adult films. The theatre is stylized for the 1940s, one of its screening rooms has 286 seats and another 320, there is also a snack bar. The entrance contains signed photos of notable pornographic stars, including Ron Jeremy.In the 1990s, Metro Theatre was used to screen kung-fu films and as a counter-culture performance space. Metro Theatre is briefly featured in the music video for "So Strung Out" by C-Block.The theatre closed at the end of 2013 after being purchased by Jonathan Hlibka and Nadia Sandhu in 2012 who intended to turn it into an art house However, their business relationship dissolved and the property is reportedly going to be redeveloped as a big box retail outlet.. }
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- Metro_Theatre_(Toronto) abstract "Metro Theatre is an adult movie theatre in Toronto, Canada. Located at 677 Bloor Street, it was open ten hours a day throughout the entire week before its closure in 2013. Built in 1938, it is one of the several Art Deco theatres built in Toronto in the 1930s by architects Kaplan and Sprachman. Metro Theatre opened in 1939 as a neighbourhood theatre showing second run films and B movies and in 1976 started to show adult films. The theatre is stylized for the 1940s, one of its screening rooms has 286 seats and another 320, there is also a snack bar. The entrance contains signed photos of notable pornographic stars, including Ron Jeremy.In the 1990s, Metro Theatre was used to screen kung-fu films and as a counter-culture performance space. Metro Theatre is briefly featured in the music video for "So Strung Out" by C-Block.The theatre closed at the end of 2013 after being purchased by Jonathan Hlibka and Nadia Sandhu in 2012 who intended to turn it into an art house However, their business relationship dissolved and the property is reportedly going to be redeveloped as a big box retail outlet.".