At long last, the biggest surviving cinema left in Accra, Plaza Cinema, has been sold out to UniCredit Ghana Ltd – after it was long abandoned to rot.
Opposite the Mamprobi Ebenezer Presbyterian Church and five meters away on the right side of Mamprobi post office in Accra, is Plaza cinema. Built over 50 years ago, Plaza cinema was not the only cinema Accra had in the 90s.
We had: Rex Cinema, Roxy Cinema, Orion Cinema, Opera Cinema, Globe Cinema, Dunia Cinema, Ophel Cinema, Orbit Cinema, Laskala Cinema, Olympio Cinema, 5-Star Cinema, Royal Cinema, Rega Cinema, and others. Today, most of these cinemas have been architecturally turned into churches and big stores.
After most of the above cinemas were sold, we still have Rex Cinema, Roxy Cinema and Plaza – with Plaza Cinema being the biggest of them all. Today, Plaza Cinema has been sold to UniCredit. GhanaCelebrities.Com gathered earlier (about 3 months ago) from one filmmaker that Plaza Cinema has long been under litigation between GAMA Films and the Ga Mantse Chiefs.