Picturehouse Cinemas

Not to be confused with Picturehouse (company).
For other uses, see Picturehouse (disambiguation).
Picturehouse Cinemas
Traded as LSE: CINE
Industry Leisure, Entertainment & Refreshments
Parent Cineworld
Website www.picturehouses.co.uk

Picturehouse Cinemas is a network of cinemas in the United Kingdom, operated by Picturehouse Cinemas Ltd[1] and owned by Cineworld.[2] The company also runs its own film distribution company, Picturehouse Entertainment.[3]

The first cinema, Phoenix Picturehouse, opened in Oxford in 1989, but many of the others in the chain operated independently before then:[4] the Duke of York's Picture House in Brighton, for example, opened in 1910 and is Britain's longest continually operating cinema.

Locations

Current

The original Phoenix Picturehouse in Oxford.[5]
Location Name Screens Notes
Bath The Little Theatre Cinema 3
Bradford Picturehouse at the National Media Museum[6] 3 Includes the first IMAX screen in Europe
Brighton Duke of York's Picturehouse 1
Brighton Duke's at Komedia 2
Cambridge Arts Picturehouse 3
Edinburgh The Cameo 3
Exeter Exeter Picturehouse 2
Henley-on-Thames Regal Picturehouse 3
Liverpool Picturehouse at FACT 4
London Crouch End Picturehouse 4
London Clapham Picturehouse 4
London East Dulwich Picturehouse 3
London The Gate 1
London Greenwich Picturehouse 5
London Hackney Picturehouse 4
London The Ritzy 5
London Stratford East Picturehouse 4
Norwich Cinema City 3
Oxford Phoenix Picturehouse 2
Southampton Harbour Lights Picturehouse 3
Stratford-Upon-Avon Stratford-Upon-Avon Picturehouse 2
York City Screen 3
London - Shaftesbury Avenue Picturehouse Central 7

Former

Location Name Screens Notes
Aberdeen The Belmont Picturehouse 3 Sold in 2014 to the Centre for the Moving Image
Bury St Edmunds The Abbeygate Picturehouse 2 Sold June 2014 to Abbeygate Cinemas[7]

Planned

Location Name Screens Opening Notes
Durham - Millennium Place To Be Announced 2 Announced May, 2015. [8]
Ealing - Uxbridge Road TBC - Filmworks 8 2019 Announced July, 2014 [9]
West Norwood - Nettlefold Hall West Norwood Picturehouse 4 2017 Announced March, 2016

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Industrial action

In 2014 Cineworld was subject to industrial action owing to its refusal to pay the London Living Wage to its staff.[10] The workforce attracted the support of Eric Cantona[11] and Terry Jones.[12]

References

  1. ↑ Picture House Corporate site Linked 2013-08-23
  2. ↑ "Cineworld buys Picturehouse in cinema chain takeover". BBC. 6 December 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  3. ↑ Picturehouse Entertainment: About Picturehouse Entertainment Linked 2013-08-23
  4. ↑ White, Debbie (January 24, 2013). "Jericho cinema to mark centenary". The Oxford Times. p. 29.
  5. ↑ "Cine-files: The Phoenix Picturehouse, Oxford". The Guardian. October 23, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Cinema chain takes over operation of National Media Museum's three screens". 29 September 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  7. ↑ "Bury St Edmunds Picturehouse Cinema sold after competition ruling". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  8. ↑ http://www.durham.gov.uk/article/6096/Picturehouse-Cinemas-comes-to-Durham
  9. ↑ "Ealing Filmworks". ealingfilmworks.com. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  10. ↑ "Cinema staff go on strike over London Living Wage". BBC News. 22 June 2014. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  11. ↑ Rucki, Alexandra (10 June 2014). "Eric Cantona lends support to Ritzy Living Wage campaign". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  12. ↑ Lusher, Adam (20 July 2014). "Nudge, nudge: Python supports ushers striking for the living wage". The Independent. Retrieved 22 July 2014.

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