Cineworld to close all its UK cinemas putting 5,500 jobs at risk

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I haven't been one for going to the cinemas for years and am guessing a lot less people go these days with how many people now have a large screen TV at home
Am surprised they even lasted this long as most people i know that been to the cinema have always said there are very people in them.

Do any of you guys still go to the cinema ?
 
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I’m surprised they lasted this long to be honest.

Even if they do manage to stay open now, I can’t see them getting enough people through the door to remain profitable for a long time to come.
 
Saw this this morning, such a shame. I loved going to the cinema in Wandsworth, hopefully their staff manage to find something else soon!
 
Count me as a "very people" i still go to the cinema. Its only the lack of good films that's stopping me.

A Clockwork Orange is on Tuesday... Might go to that :P
 
I haven't bothered for years, unless you can go at weird anti social hours they're usually just an irritating experience of people muttering, phones lighting up, the world's tallest man sitting in front of you etc.
 
According to these statistics cinema has been at the same level of popularity for a couple of decades (if anything numbers have increased slightly recently) https://www.cinemauk.org.uk/the-ind...-admissions-and-box-office/annual-admissions/

Income around £1.2bn / year from box office takings for the last five years: https://www.cinemauk.org.uk/the-ind...-admissions-and-box-office/annual-box-office/

Some films are just more spectacular on a large screen with decent sound. I don’t think most people have fantastic kit at home (I certainly don’t).

I tend to go for later screenings or during the day if I have time off so don’t get the irritation of other people.
 
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Got an email the other day offering a free nachos and popcorn. Been back to see Tenet which was great - but the place was empty, might have been 10 of us in there altogether.

They were also doing the director's cut versions of the Lord of the Rings which I would have loved to have seen on the big screen, but the times never worked out. I'll see if I can get my free snacks anyway before they shut up shop again.
 
I think I go maybe once a year to the cinema these days.

They got really expensive and people don't know how to keep quiet and put their phones away. Even though it tells you about 20 times before the movie starts.
 
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I've been more recently over the last few years, given I have one only 20 minutes up the road and prices are much more reasonable £8# for an Adult.

My OH's work perk makes them about £4 each so we opt for the VIP seats for an extra £2 (Vue), so a tenner for two people to see a film is quite reasonable.
 
Not sure i will ever go to the cinema again. Now tv cinema is dirt cheap with the offers they keep giving you and netflix and amazon have more tv and films than you could ever watch in a lifetime. I can get a whole years worth of Now tv cinema (ie sky cinema) for the price of a few cinema trips.

The film and tv market has become so saturated and TV's and home cinema systems are so good, that you simply dont need to go to a cinema anymore.

It is much nicer sitting in the comfort of your own house without having kids talking, people chewing popcorn in your ear or someone bobbing about in front of you.

They will be resigned to the history books soon and every media product we consume will be streamed on the internet.
 
It's not surprising, they aren't going to be able to operate over the next year or two in the current climate of fear and paranoia of being near other people.

They should just shut down Hollywood as well, all they seem to turf out these days is films based on superhero comics, dumbed down remakes that aren't a patch on the originals and politically driven propaganda films.
 
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Not sure i will ever go to the cinema again. Now tv cinema is dirt cheap with the offers they keep giving you and netflix and amazon have more tv and films than you could ever watch in a lifetime. I can get a whole years worth of Now tv cinema (ie sky cinema) for the price of a few cinema trips.

The film and tv market has become so saturated and TV's and home cinema systems are so good, that you simply dont need to go to a cinema anymore.

It is much nicer sitting in the comfort of your own house without having kids talking, people chewing popcorn in your ear or someone bobbing about in front of you.

They will be resigned to the history books soon and every media product we consume will be streamed on the internet.
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Though most of the movies on Netflix and Amazon prime are pretty terrible :D

And as above, Hollywood is just churning out the movie equivalent of shovelware now and went in to woke overload.
 
Cineworld's price stopped me going, only been to the one's I really want to go to now since I can't get cheap tickets from work perks anymore (I had a Unlimited card for 12 months as well when I was in London), it's a shame but they really did price themselves out the market, last time we went the price was nearly £12 a ticket, easier to wait for the Blu-Ray to come out and if the films ***** can trade it in.
 
Not surprised. The only Cineworld near me is a complete dive. Went to it to see The Revenant and it felt like I was transported back to 1996

I really enjoy going to the cinema still. Even for films I don't particulary care about. The one in town is really nice or we go to Everyman as a treat. I actually miss not going to the cinema.
 
If they stopped insisting on charging 20 quid for a coke and some popcorn for 2 then they might actually make some money on the food/drink. I still enjoy going to the cinema but probably only go 2/3 times a year these days.
 
Will be interesting to see what some of their venues get reused for - I would think most of the buildings are pretty unique in terms of size and layout.
 
They're not closing completely as far as I understood the original story just basically mothballing the whole business. Shutting them till next year and laying everybody off with a view of re-employing them when they re-open.

Can't see what other option any of these multiplexes have, you've basically got no new films to show for the next 6 months. If you're an independent with 1 or 2 screens you might be able to keep it going with themed weeks or other seasons of showing old films but you can't run 9+ screen places on re runs of Back to the future!
 
This quote on the BBC story is great:-

The film industry had hoped the release of No Time To Die would spark a movie-going revival in the UK, with so many cinemas having been mothballed for months following the Covid-19 lockdown in March.

But on Friday the movie's release was further delayed until 2 April 2021 "in order to be seen by a worldwide theatrical audience".

By delaying the release they've actually expedited the closure of many cinemas across the country (probably the world tbh) so there will be much less of an audience to show it to, by all accounts a lot of people have been to see Tenet which goes to show if something is worth watching people will still go out.
 
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