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Carol Welch is leaving Odeon Cinemas Group. The cinema chain's Managing Director, UK and Ireland, and Commercial Officer, Europe, has resigned after six years. She is moving to become CEO of AF Blakemore, a large family-owned retail and food distributor in the…

Sundance London Dates, Opener Sundance Film Festival: London will return to Picturehouse Central, London, for its sixth year from 29 July to 1 August 2021, as an in-person event. The program of at least 12 features will open with the UK premiere of Edgar Wright's debut documentary The Sparks Brothers, about the U.S…

Odeon, one of the UK's major multiplex exhibitors, is scaling back operations with a portion of its venues set to close during week days. The move follows the shift of Bond pic No Time To Die from November to April 2, 2021, due to ongoing challenges from the pandemic. The move caused an uproar in the beleaguered…

The UK economy suffered its biggest slump on record between April-June as the effects of the pandemic triggered an official recession for the first time since the economic crisis of 2009. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the economy shrank a record 20.4% compared with the first three months of…

EXCLUSIVE: Odeon Cinemas, the AMC-owned chain which is the UK's largest cinema operator by number of sites, has decided to slow down its reopening plans amid ongoing coronavirus disruption and a film slate that is seeing major titles continue to shift back. The chain reopened an initial 10 sites on July 4, which was…

Odeon, one of the UK's major multiplex chains, has outlined its plan to re-open venues in England next month following news yesterday that the government has given exhibitors the green light. Cinemas are allowed to resume operations from July 4, and Odeon will open doors at 10 sites on that date, including in…

Some good news here, especially on the AMC Theatres front. The Leawood, Kansas-based chain–the No. 1 circuit in U.S and Europe–is reopening three Odeon Cinemas in Norway effective today.  Odeon Cinemas Oslo Storo 14, Sandvika 8 and Lillestrøm 7 are the first three locations within the AMC and Odeon cinemas circuit to…

Shares of AMC Entertainment were up a hefty 40% in early trading Monday on a report in U.K. outlet The Daily Mail that Amazon may be interested in acquiring the theater chain, which has been hard hit by COVID-19. The report is not confirmed. AMC Entertainment had no comment. Amazon said the company does not comment on…

Cineworld, the second-largest exhibitor in the world, clocked its lowest ever share price today as global markets continue to drop in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. European markets are down as much as 10% this morning. Entertainment shares are being hit hard, and UK-based Cineworld, which owns U.S. outfit…

European cinema chain Odeon found itself the subject of consumer ire this week after its flagship UK venue Odeon Leicester Square revealed a top-end ticket price of £40.75 ($52). The newly refurbished cinema will re-open later this month, showing Mary Poppins Returns. According to Odeon, the cinema’s 22 ‘Royal Box…

The launch late last week of a potential UK equivalent to U.S. ticketing upstart MoviePass created a stir among Blighty’s exhibition community. No-one knew who was behind the audacious offer called cPass, whose site included the logos of all major UK theater chains. So, over the weekend I tracked down the U.S. and…

A company supposedly positioning itself as a UK equivalent to U.S. ticketing upstart MoviePass, has been met with wonder by the UK Cinema Association (UKCA), whose members include theater chains Odeon, Cineworld, Vue and Curzon — we’ve been told none of its members are signed up to the service. A professional-looking w…