====== Cineplex ====== {{ ::cineplex_logo.svg.png?200|}} **Cineplex Entertainment** is a Canadian movie theatre chain headquartered in [[canada:ontario:Toronto]], [[canada:Ontario]]. ===== History ===== ==== COVID-19 ==== In February 2021, CEO [[Ellis Jacob]] offered to temporarily convert Cineplex theatres into [[COVID-19 vaccines|COVID-19 vaccination]] clinics.((Friend, D. (2021, February 11). //Cineplex willing to turn movie theatres into coronavirus vaccine sites: CEO.// Global News. http://archive.today/2022.11.11-103320/https://globalnews.ca/news/7635048/cineplex-coronavirus-vaccine-distribution/)) One such clinic operated in the parking lot of a Cineplex Odeon in [[ontario:Oshua]], Ontario on September 21, 2021, led by [[Durham Region Health Department]].((Durham Region Health Department. (2021, September 19). //"Check out this upcoming #COVID19 Pfizer & Moderna vaccine mobile walk-in clinic."// [Tweet]. Twitter. https://web.archive.org/web/20210920154811/https://twitter.com/DurhamHealth/status/1439582805365858304)) {{ ::e_ps7mwwyai16kt.jpeg?600|}} In November 2022, Cineplex screened advertisements for [[COVID-19 vaccines]] directed at children. The ad featured [[Danièle Behn Smith]], Deputy Provincial Health Officer for Indigenous Health under the [[BC Ministry of Health]].((Sturgess, L. (2022, November 10). //“I’m sitting down to watch #BlackPanther and @CineplexMovies plays an ad selling #COVID19vaccines to kids...”// [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/TheLiamSturgess/status/1590957599121604610))