Cineworld cinema chain is 'preparing' to file for bankruptcy within weeks

[arista]

This is sad news


https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/08/19/13/61539121-11127265-image-a-160_1660912397986.jpg


Poxy China
and its deadly Covid-19


[Cineworld cinema chain is 'preparing to file
for bankruptcy within weeks' after struggling
to rebuild post-Covid audiences

Cineworld Group Plc owns Cineworld
and is said to be in financial trouble
The British cinema company has engaged
lawyers, an insider source says
The company says a lower number
of films has caused a large fall in attendance]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11127265/Cineworld-cinema-chain-prepares-file-bankruptcy-weeks-amid-post-Covid-audience-slump.html

[Swan]

Cinema to be a thing of the past in the not too distant future.

[arista]

Cinema to be a thing of the past in the not too distant future.


No

4DX system is not in your home.

Its fantastic

[Swan]

No

4DX system is not in your home.

Its fantastic

Hope im wrong, but half the films released you can buy on PPV the same time they're in the Cinema. Also, it's not really a cheap family day out, people will start to wait for films to show on streaming services.

[arista]

4DX only in a Cinema


https://www.cineworld.co.uk/4dx#/

[bots]

yes, but most people dont have access to a 4dx cinema and don't care. Cinemas will be gone within 5 years

[arista]

yes, but most people dont have access to a 4dx cinema and don't care. Cinemas will be gone within 5 years


I do not think so.


I think some Cinemas will remain.

[Saph]

I actually hate going to the cinema, i love talking through films and googling the actors and plot etc

i got dragged to watch jurassic world a few weeks ago and needed a wee for like the entire 6 hour film but didn't want to do that awkward walk of shame down and up the steps

[Cherie]

I do not think so.


I think some Cinemas will remain.

Think so to....Cineworlds prices were crazy

[Swan]

yes, but most people dont have access to a 4dx cinema and don't care. Cinemas will be gone within 5 years

I do not think so.


I think some Cinemas will remain.

Perhaps a few of the big Cinemas in major cities. And some Art House Theatres. But as far as mainstream, Cinema is a dying trade imo. I did hear the new Top Gun film did really well, so maybe there's hope.

I've not been for years, i don't know anybody else who has either. Im sure custom from kids was a big bulk of their trade, if they can keep the kids interested maybe they have a future. But im certain, either way, it'll be very much downscaled.

[James]

The pandemic and shutting the cinemas has obviously damaged the business. Box-office numbers still well down on 2019.

Film studios aren't putting as many films into cinemas now, and the ones that do come to streaming earlier.

I looked at the realise schedule recently and there is nothing major until the middle of October.

[James]

Last time I went was to see Tenet in October 2020.

[hijaxers]

Last time I went was to see Tenet in October 2020.

LOL ~ last time i went was The Terminator 1991 ~ i refuse to pay cinema prices and everything becomes available eventually , being 1st to see any film does not bother me.

[Swan]

LOL ~ last time i went was The Terminator 1991 ~ i refuse to pay cinema prices and everything becomes available eventually , being 1st to see any film does not bother me.

Ironically the last film i watched at the Cinema was Terminator Salvation, which i enjoyed tremendously. Criminally underrated film.

[arista]

Last time I went was to see Tenet in October 2020.


Great Film.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Cost of Lockdown-crisis strikes again

[MTVN]

I don't know why they don't do more offers there. I like Cineworld but I don't think I've ever had a ticket under a tenner even though I normally went on quiet weekday afternoons when there were only a couple of other people there. They had no beer at all the last time I went to one as well

Just checked Cineworld vs Vue for Monday afternoon as an example in the proper graveyard slot. £5.89 to watch a film at Vue, £9.99 at Cineworld

[Cherie]

I don't know why they don't do more offers there. I like Cineworld but I don't think I've ever had a ticket under a tenner even though I normally went on quiet weekday afternoons when there were only a couple of other people there. They had no beer at all the last time I went to one as well

Just checked Cineworld vs Vue for Monday afternoon as an example in the proper graveyard slot. £5.89 to watch a film at Vue, £9.99 at Cineworld

Yep their pricing was OTT and its not like their cinemas are any better than Vue