Picturehouse Cinemas

Picturehouse Cinemas
Traded as LSE: CINE
Industry Leisure, Entertainment & Refreshments
Founded 1989
Founder Lyn Goleby/Tony Jones
Headquarters London, United Kingdom
Number of locations
 23
Area served
 United Kingdom
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 Little Theatre Cinema 2
Bradford Picturehouse at the Science + Media Museum[6] 3 Includes the first IMAX screen in Europe
Brighton Duke of York's 1
Brighton Duke's at Komedia 2
Cambridge Arts Picturehouse 3
Edinburgh Cameo 3
Exeter Exeter Picturehouse 2
Henley-on-Thames Regal 3
Liverpool Picturehouse at FACT 4
London - Brixton Ritzy 5
London - Clapham Clapham Picturehouse 4
London - Crouch End Crouch End Picturehouse 5
London - East Dulwich East Dulwich Picturehouse and Café 3
London - Greenwich Greenwich Picturehouse 5
London - Hackney Central Hackney Picturehouse 4
London - Notting Hill The Gate 1
London - Piccadilly Picturehouse Central 7
London - Stratford Stratford Picturehouse 4
Norwich Cinema City 3
Oxford Phoenix 2
Southampton Harbour Lights 2
Stratford-Upon-Avon Stratford-Upon-Avon 4
York City Screen 3

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
Ealing - Uxbridge Road TBC - Filmworks 8 2019 Announced July, 2014 [8]
West Norwood - Nettlefold Hall West Norwood Picturehouse 4 2017 Announced March, 2016
Chester - Northgate Development Chester Picturehouse 6 2019 Announced August 2016

Industrial action

In 2014 Cineworld was subject to industrial action owing to its refusal to pay the London Living Wage to its staff.[9] The workforce attracted the support of Eric Cantona[10] and Terry Jones.[11]

Industrial action resumed in October 2016 over the issue of the London Living Wage, and as of March 2017 has spread to five Picturehouse cinemas, making it the biggest strike action ever by cinema workers in the UK.[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. ↑ "Ealing Filmworks". ealingfilmworks.com. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  9. ↑ "Cinema staff go on strike over London Living Wage". BBC News. 22 June 2014. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  10. ↑ Rucki, Alexandra (10 June 2014). "Eric Cantona lends support to Ritzy Living Wage campaign". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  11. ↑ Lusher, Adam (20 July 2014). "Nudge, nudge: Python supports ushers striking for the living wage". The Independent. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  12. ↑ http://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2017/03/06/brighton-cinema-staff-vote-to-strike-in-living-wage-row/
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