Cinema Paradiso (company)

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Cinema Paradiso
Company type Private company
Industry Electronic commerce
Founded2003;21 years ago (2003)
FounderZoran Dugandzic
Headquarters
Brentford, London
,
England, United Kingdom
Area served
UK
Products Online DVD rental; Online Blu-ray
Services80,000 titles. Extensive Worldwide library.
Website Cinema Paradiso

Cinema Paradiso is a UK-based DVD-by-mail company which specialises in world and arthouse cinema but also caters for mainstream tastes as well, with over 80,000 DVD titles and 5000+ Blu-ray high definition titles available. It operates a system which divides film information for each title by genre and special features on the disc. It also carries a list of over 5000 foreign language DVDs. [1]

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History

Cinema Paradiso is a privately owned company, established in 2003 in Lewisham, South London and currently with its headquarters in Brentford, West London, England, UK. In 2005 the company bought Zoovies.net, [2] and in the following year acquired DVDsToMe.

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References

  1. "What's on TV? Let's look in the mailbox". theguardian.com. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  2. "Movie fans invited to celebrate CinemaParadiso.co.uk 10-year anniversary" . Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  3. "Ethical Consumer".