Production set for early November in Scotland. In late 2004, the European division of UCI was bought by Terra Firma Capital Partners, along with rival chain Odeon Cinemas. Cineworld Odeon Cinemas Group Vue National Amusements Forecasts. “With 161.3 million admissions to the end of November, we need 14.6 million admissions in December to beat 2002,” says Linay. This forms a focal point of the staff training all around the globe, and looks at impressions offered to the customer at all times throughout their visit to any one of their cinemas. Against that unsettled backdrop, however, the country’s cinema industry has had a quite remarkable year.

As the UK faced political crisis and internal division, audiences flocked to the cinema in ever-greater numbers for escapism and uplift. [1]. In both countries, films made in the United States with 77% of the market in the UK to 67% in Australia.

[4] The chain managed CIC's flagship cinemas in London, the Empire, Leicester Square and the Plaza, however, these were still owned by CIC.[4]. “People get swept up in that genre more than any other types of film, and as a result they’re huge.”. Admissions and box office declined in equivalent mature markets across the continent, from a modest contraction in Spain to alarming plunges in Germany and Austria. UCI's Tallaght cinema, the first opened in the country, was closed on 8 March 2010 after the landlords gave the company notice that their lease would not be renewed. “From our perspective it’s a good thing because we work with admissions,” says DCM’s Linay, whose company is in the business of selling eyeballs to advertisers. In early 2019, the three cinemas in Austria were sold and rebranded as part of Cineplexx Cinemas. In the UK, the company operated cinemas under the UCI and (later) thefilmworks brands, and initially enjoyed a sizeable market share. While Linay adds that “the superhero narrative reached a particular crescendo this year”, with the $151m (£120m) combined UK and Ireland gross of Avengers: Infinity War and Black Panther, both those films were positioned to appeal far beyond the traditional fanboy audience. Chart (A) shows the cinema industry’s share of the Australian and UK cinema market by origin in 2001.

Our reports feature standardised and cross-comparable statistics including total market sizes, market … The name was shortened the following year to United Cinemas International and they were based in Manchester, England, operating 86 cinemas initially. The DVD market represented 56 percent of total movie spending in 2006 at £1,655m. Which films could win big at the UK box office in early 2019? Advertising contained the Odeon logo font in many cases.