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A Perthshire picture house which is battling to survive lockdown has launched Scotland’s first cinema-run streaming service. The art deco auditorium has been closed to the public since November, when pandemic restrictions were tightened up across Perth and Kinross. Its … Continued
Several theatres in Greater Manchester have been identified at being at significant risk of being lost forever by the Theatres Trust. The national advisory body, which protects and supports theatre buildings, has released its annual Theatres at Risk Register for … Continued
Bones found beneath a flood-hit Wetherspoon pub are believed to have come from an old monastery. Workmen made the startling discovery yesterday as they carried out major repair work after the Picture House in Stafford was left under water following Storm Christoph. … Continued
When the Goteborg Film Festival offered the chance for a film fan to spend seven days alone on an island, with only 60 films for company, the organisers weren’t sure if anyone would want to apply. The pandemic has been isolating … Continued
Second Sight have taken to social media to reveal that they have been given access to the negative for Dog Soldiers with the intention of scanning ahead of a full 4K restoration of Neil Marshall’s classic British horror. Source: https://www.thedigitalfix.com/film/home-releases-news/dog-soldiers-4k/
The Odeon Luxe Cinema at Lockmeadow, Maidstone has reopened its doors to become a Covid-19 vaccination location for the town’s residents. Source: https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/maidstone-cinema-to-become-temporary-vaccination-centre/
Customers will be able to sit in cinema seats to drink and dine when a Stafford town centre boozer reopens after the current lockdown. The Picture House, one of Stafford’s two JD Wetherspoon branches, started life more than 100 years ago … Continued
It’s hard to believe but at one time Weymouth and Portland had four cinemas. These days the area has just one multiplex – Cineworld in Weymouth town centre, which currently closed due to the national lockdown. But turn back the … Continued
The building has stood empty for over a decade. The Ritz Cinema in Nuneaton was designed for the Union Cinema Circuit and was opened on July 23, 1937, with James Melton in ‘Melody for Two’ and James Dunn in ‘Mysterious Crossing’ plus … Continued
Two Prime Ministers have walked its famous boards as well British suffragette founder Emilline Pankhurst. David Lloyd George, Prime Minister between 1916 and 1922 and Anthony Eden, Prime Minister between 1955 and 1957, visited the town to deliver speeches and … Continued