Picturehouse Cinemas

Picturehouse Cinemas
Industry Leisure, Entertainment & Refreshments
Founded 1989
Founder Lyn Goleby/Tony Jones
Headquarters London, United Kingdom
Number of locations
 23
Area served
 United Kingdom
Key people
 Renana Teperberg
(Joint managing director)
Clare Binns
(Joint managing director)
Parent Cineworld
Website 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 runs its own film distribution arm, Picturehouse Entertainment, which has released acclaimed films such as David Lowery's A Ghost Story, Sally Potter's The Party and Francis Lee's God's Own Country and will release upcoming films Custody and The Wife. A previous iteration of this distribution arm, which focused largely on alternative content, was sold in 2017 to Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire and rebranded Trafalgar Releasing.[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 6
London – Notting Hill The Gate 1
London – Piccadilly Picturehouse Central 7 Host venue for Sundance London Film Festival
London – Stratford Stratford Picturehouse 4
Norwich Cinema City 3
Oxford Phoenix 2
Southampton Harbour Lights 2
Stratford-Upon-Avon Stratford-Upon-Avon 2
York City Screen 4

Former

Location Name Screens Notes
AberdeenThe Belmont Picturehouse3Sold in 2014 to the Centre for the Moving Image
Bury St EdmundsThe Abbeygate Picturehouse2Sold 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 2018 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] Started by workers at the Ritzy Cinema, Brixton the resulting Ritzy Living Wage campaign attracted the support of Eric Cantona[10] and Terry Jones.[11]

Industrial action resumed in October 2016 over the issue of the Living Wage, as well as recognition of the theatre union BECTU, parental pay and sick pay, and has spread to six Picturehouse cinemas, making it the biggest strike action ever by cinema workers in the UK.[12][13] Strikes continue into 2018, while Picturehouse state that they are one of the highest payers in the UK cinema industry.[14]

References

  1. ↑ Picture House Corporate site Linked 23 August 2013
  2. ↑ "Cineworld buys Picturehouse in cinema chain takeover". BBC. 6 December 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "UK distributor Trafalgar Releasing reveals structure and growth plan". Screen. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  4. ↑ White, Debbie (24 January 2013). "Jericho cinema to mark centenary". The Oxford Times. p. 29.
  5. ↑ "Cine-files: The Phoenix Picturehouse, Oxford". The Guardian. 23 October 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. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  8. ↑ "Ealing Filmworks". ealingfilmworks.com. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  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. ↑ Frank le Duc (6 March 2017). "Brighton cinema staff vote to strike in living wage row". Brighton and Hove News.
  13. ↑ Smith, Mark D. "Picturehouse dispute: how far will Nero go?". Counterfire. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  14. ↑ "Pay at Picturehouse". Picturehouses.
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