Ultimate Picture Palace cinemas of the time. In 1994 Heine closed the Penultimate Picture Palace. For a month that summer it was squatted by the Oxford Freedom Network, which reopened it as Studio 6 Cinema. Then brothers Saied and Zaid Marham bought it and spent £40,000 restoring the neoclassical façade. They reopened it as the Ultimate Picture Palace in June 1996. In the 2000s the cinema got into debt. In July 2009 Saied Marham sold it to Philippa Farrow and Jane Derricott, who installed a small refreshment bar at the west end of the auditorium. In 2011 Farrow and Derricott sold the cinema
Old Summer Palace real estate developer who donated 10 million Norwegian kroner (US$1.6 million) to the museum, according to the "China Daily". It is still debated in China whether to apply for an inclusion of the Old Summer Palace on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The ruins of the Old Summer Palace remain open to the public and are an important tourist attraction in Haidian District. They can be accessed from Yuanmingyuan Park Station on Line 4 of the Beijing Subway. Old Summer Palace The Old Summer Palace, known in Chinese as Yuanming Yuan (), and originally called the Imperial Gardens