Cineworld Group

Empire Cinemas is the largest independently-owned cinema chain in the UK. Currently operating 119 screens in 13 cinemas across the United Kingdom, with our Sutton Surrey site opening winter 2017. Empire Cinemas screens everything from mainstream blockbusters to art-house classics in quality cinemas, staffed by individuals who are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about film.

Cinema City International N.V. is the largest cinema operator in Central and Eastern Europe as well as in Israel and the third largest cinema operator in all of Europe. The Company operates 99 multiplexes with a total of 966 screens.

Picturehouse Cinemas, the UK’s leading independent cinema operator, is a stand-alone entity within Cineworld Group plc, its acquisition having been announced in early December 2012. Formed in 1989, Picturehouse provides cinemas in city-centre locations to serve local communities and offer a broader range of films. Picturehouse now owns and operates 21 cinemas; the most recent openings were the Hackney Picturehouse and Brighton’s Dukes @ Komedia. The company also programmes an additional 36 independently operated venues throughout the UK. Picturehouse draws on more than 18 years’ experience in tailoring diverse and commercially successful programmes, spanning art-house and independent features, world cinema and quality mainstream titles, as well as short films and touring seasons. The company prides itself on being at the forefront of digital cinema and other business and technical developments, such as pioneering a wide variety of live Screen Arts cinecasts of performance arts events, including from the National Theatre, the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House, as well as regular filmmaker Q&As. Sister company Picturehouse Entertainment launched in 2010. Recent releases include BAFTA-winning The Imposter, Shane Meadows’ The Stone Roses: Made of Stone and Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England.