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European cinema chain Vue has been fined $1m (£750,000) by Birmingham Crown Court for safety breaches after a cinemagoer was killed by a motorized reclining chair at one of its UK sites. The court heard how during the March 2018 incident patron Ateeq Rafiq was trying to retrieve personal items from beneath his seat…

Tim Richards, CEO and founder of exhibition chain Vue, has been appointed the next Chair of the British Film Institute. Richards will take over the role from interim Chair and BFI Governor Pat Butler. The public appointment was made by the Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden. Richards will take up the position from…

Vue has become the latest major UK exhibitor to announce it is making changes to its operating hours in response to ongoing COVID-related challenges. The chain will begin closing 21 of its 87 sites on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The move follows Cineworld announcing it is temporarily re-closing all of its cinem…

Cinema chain Vue is close to securing roughly £100M ($130M) in debt financing to help counteract the challenges wrought by coronavirus. Sources confirm to us that there are advanced talks to secure the funding, a move first reported by Sky. The company refinanced its debt last year, with none of its borrowings…

UK cinemas have officially begun selling tickets for Christopher Nolan's Tenet, as of midnight today local time. The movie is being heralded as the saviour of the big screen and exhibitors have nervously been monitoring the situation following several dates shifts which have seen it move later and later in the summer…

EXCLUSIVE: International cinema giant Vue has weighed in on the controversial Universal-AMC window crunch, announced earlier this week. Universal and AMC put aside bad blood to sign a multi-year deal that will allow the studio's films to premiere on premium video on-demand within three weeks of their theatrical…

As expected, major UK cinema chain Vue has shifted plans for re-opening its sites after the delays to Tenet and Mulan. Now, with the Christopher Nolan pic scheduled for August 26 in the UK, the exhibitor will look to begin gradually re-opening its venues from August 7, when an initial ten sites will open their doors…

Following news earlier this week that UK exhibitor Cineworld was delaying its re-opening plans in England three weeks to July 31 – a decision that also applies to its U.S. arm Regal – fellow Brit chain Vue has fallen in line and is also now aiming for July 31. Key to these decisions is the film slate, which is proving…

Cinema owners in England got a shot in the arm today when UK prime minister Boris Johnson confirmed that they will be allowed to resume operations on July 4 after being shutdown since mid-March due to the pandemic. Key to the announcement was the halving of the country’s social distancing rule from two meters to one…

Vue International, one of Europe's biggest cinema operators, has made key appointments to its offices in the UK and Italy. Toby Bradon, who is currently overseeing Vue's Italian business The Space Cinema, will take the role of Territory General Manager of Vue UK, Ireland and Denmark. He will report directly to Kevin…

After a week of controversy, UK multiplex chain Vue is set to remove its ban on showing gang movie Blue Story. The pic opened in the UK over the weekend via Paramount, grossing an impressive $1.7m (and we hear holds during the week have been strong), but was dogged by controversy after an incident at a Birmingham…

Rapman, real name Andrew Onwubolu, has hit out at UK multiplex chain Vue over its banning of his film Blue Story. The cinema said it had taken the measure after "25 significant incidents," following an initial widely reported incident involving a machete at a Birmingham site on Saturday (November 23) during the film’s…