Excentris was a

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and cinema located on

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. The complex was conceived by

Daniel Langlois Daniel Langlois (6 April 1957 – 2023) was a Canadian businessman who was the president and founder of the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Ex-Centris, and Media Principia Inc. He was founder and inaugural president of Softimage Inc., which i ...

as a laboratory for

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production as well as a screening venue. It was opened in June 1999, after two years of construction at a cost of CA$6.2 million, and covered . Excentris ran into financial difficulty in 2009 and was forced to shut down two of its three cinemas. It was revived as a three-screen complex in 2011, with the help of a $4 million loan from Quebec provincial film funding agency SODEC, $2.75 million from the City of Montreal, and $1 million from the Daniel Langlois Foundation. The centre closed its doors in November 2015, citing financial difficulties. Cinéma Parallèle, the non-profit organization that ran the center, entered bankruptcy protection in May 2015. In 2018 the building was sold to for CA$1.6 million.

References

External links

Excentris website
Performing arts centres in Canada Music venues in Montreal Theatres in Montreal Event venues established in 2009 Le Plateau-Mont-Royal {{Quebec-struct-stub