Vincenzo "Vince" Guzzo[1] OMRI SMOM[2] (Italian pronunciation: [vinˈtʃɛntso ˈɡuttso]; born 11 June 1969) is a Canadian businessman and television personality.

[5][6] A 19 September 2018 profile in the Montreal Gazette talks about his early life:As a student at Selwyn House School, Guzzo would do his homework in his father’s office at the movie theatre.

[2][7] Guzzo is the president and CEO of Cinémas Guzzo—the largest movie operator in Quebec, with 106 screens and 7 locations, and the third-largest in Canada.

In 1974, he bought a movie theatre,[2] the Cinéma Paradis, which had been closed and left abandoned for the previous ten years, creating friction with the local citizens.

"[17] Guzzo later tweeted in a series of threads that he did not believe that CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie knew what he was doing during negotiations and acted "in a non transparent way and wasted my time.

According to reports from La Presse, creditors, including CIBC and private lenders, initiated legal proceedings against Guzzo’s group, demanding repayment of over $60 million in outstanding debts.

[24] In November 2024, Quebec Superior Court placed Cinémas Guzzo under interim receivership and ordered the company to open its books to Raymond Chabot, a financial recovery firm.

[25] In June 2023, Vincent Guzzo faced criminal charges for harassment and breach of conditions related to a family dispute.

[24] In one case, Guzzo was accused of failing to complete promised construction work for a shopping center, despite receiving $9 million in payments.

[25] Guzzo denied the claims, stating that all employees were paid and that the decision to close the theater was unrelated to financial troubles, as the lease was set to expire.

A critic of Quebec’s lockdown measures, including a temporary ban on the sale of popcorn in theaters, Guzzo publicly opposed the government’s restrictions.

The CBC Dragon's Den blog explains: [The Guzzo family], are renowned philanthropists, giving generously to numerous hospitals and culminating in the establishment of the Guzzo Family Foundation in 2007, which is aggressively invested in cancer nanotechnology research at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital and McGill University.