Picturehouse Cinemas

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Picturehouse Cinemas Limited
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HeadquartersLondon, England
Number of locations
28
Area served
United Kingdom
Key people
Clare Binns (Managing Director)
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ParentCineworld
SubsidiariesPicturehouse Entertainment
Websitepicturehouses.com picturehouses.com/entertainment

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Picturehouse Cinemas is a network of cinemas in the United Kingdom, owned by Cineworld.[1] The company runs its own film distribution arm, Picturehouse Entertainment,[2] which has released acclaimed films such as Hirokazu Kore-eda's Broker and Monster, Scrapper, Corsage, Sally Potter's The Party, Francis Lee's God's Own Country 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 as Trafalgar Releasing.[3]

The first cinema in the chain, Phoenix Picturehouse, opened in Oxford in 1989, but many of the others 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.

On 17 March 2020, Picturehouse and all other movie cinema companies in the UK temporarily closed their UK cinemas, due to the COVID-19 pandemic,[5] reopening them on 31 July. A second closure took place from 9 October 2020 until 17 May 2021, due to an insufficient amount of new film releases and a second wave of the pandemic closing indoor venues.[6]

In 2022, their parent company Cineworld filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States,[7] On 31 July 2023, Cineworld entered administration in the UK.[8] That same day, Cineworld emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy after slashing billions of dollars in debt and the much-needed boost from the Barbenheimer box office success.[9]

Locations

Current

Image Location Name Screens Notes
File:The Little Theatre, Bath - geograph.org.uk - 6330189.jpg Bath Little Theatre Cinema 2
File:Duke of York's Cinema, Preston Circus, Brighton (NHLE Code 1380741) (December 2011).JPG Brighton Duke of York's 1 Grade II-listed, it opened 22 September 1910 and is Britain's oldest purpose-built cinema. It has a 20-foot sculpture of a can-can dancer's legs on its roof.[10]
File:Komedia Brighton.jpg Brighton Duke's at Komedia 2
File:Cambridge The Regal.jpg Cambridge Arts Picturehouse 3[11] The Regal Cinema opened in the city's Regent Street in 1937, was redeveloped in 1972 as a two-screen ABC cinema, and closed in 1997. Two years later, Wetherspoons installed a pub on the ground level of the building, with the Arts Picturehouse establishing a three-screen cinema above it.[11]

The cinema hosts the annual Cambridge Film Festival.[11]

File:Chester Market and Picturehouse - geograph.org.uk - 8070261.jpg Chester Chester Picturehouse 6 Opened on Friday 10 November 2023
File:The Cameo cinema, Home Street, Edinburgh from across the street 02 (cropped).jpg Edinburgh Cameo 3 It originally opened in 1914 as the King's Cinema, acquired sound in 1930, was renamed The Cameo in 1949,[12] and was granted B-listed heritage status in 2006.[13]
Epsom Epsom Picturehouse 6 Opened on Saturday 1 June 2024[14]
File:Exeter Picturehouse - geograph.org.uk - 5983091.jpg Exeter Exeter Picturehouse 2[15] It was designed by Burrell Foley Fischer, opened in 1996 and has a first floor cafe.[16]
File:The Regal Cinema - geograph.org.uk - 3150158.jpg Henley-on-Thames Regal 3
File:FACT Liverpool exterior.jpg Liverpool Picturehouse at FACT 3[17] Has a bar which hosts events.[18]
File:At Brixton, London 2025 004.jpg] London – Brixton Ritzy 5
File:Picturehouse Clapham.jpg London – Clapham Clapham Picturehouse 4
File:Crouch End Picturehouse, Crouch End - 2025-07-28.jpg] London – Crouch End Crouch End Picturehouse 5[19] Has a restaurant and bar.[19]

Its building, Rosebery House, was erected in the 1950s[20] as a factory and office,[21] and refurbished in 2015 by Panter Hudspith.[20][21]

File:Opening day at Ealing’s long-awaited new Picturehouse cinema.jpg London – Ealing Ealing Picturehouse 8[22] Opened October 2023.
London – East Dulwich East Dulwich Picturehouse and Café 3
London - Finsbury Park Finsbury Park Picturehouse 7 Opened September 2021.
File:Greenwich Picturehouse 2026-01-24.jpg London – Greenwich Greenwich Picturehouse 5
File:Hackney Picturehouse, Hackney, E8 (8026044949).jpg London – Hackney Central Hackney Picturehouse 6
File:Gate Cinema, Notting Hill Gate, Sep 2014 01.jpg London – Notting Hill The Gate Cinema 1
File:Picturehouse Central, Piccadilly Circus, W1 (18234385723).jpg London – Piccadilly Picturehouse Central 7 Host venue for Sundance London Film Festival.[23] It has a membership scheme which gives access to a rooftop member's bar.[24]
File:PXL 20210715 131007622.jpg London – West Norwood West Norwood Picturehouse 4 The original Nettlefold Hall was reimagined as a Library and opened by Princess Margaret in 1969.

In 1970 Stanley Kubrick filmed a scene for A Clockwork Orange in the old hall. It was refurbished and opened as a Picturehouse Cinema in 2018.

File:St Andrews Street - Cinema City - geograph.org.uk - 5874091.jpg Norwich Cinema City 3
File:The Phoenix Picture House - geograph.org.uk - 7418933.jpg Oxford Phoenix 2 Originally opened as the North Oxford Kinema in 1913, became the Phoenix Cinema in 1989[25]
File:Cinema, Ocean Village - geograph.org.uk - 6740275.jpg Southampton Harbour Lights 2[26] Designed by Burrell Foley Fischer, Harbour Lights opened in February 1995. The building received a Civic Trust Commendation, was shortlisted for a RIBA award for architecture,[27] and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times building of the year.[28] The cinema was voted Britain's Best-Loved Independent Cinema Empire readers in 2000.[27]
File:City Screen York 03.jpg York City Screen 3

Former

Image Location Name Screens Notes
Ashford Ashford Picturehouse 6 Lease ended in April 2024 and now run by the council as "The Ashford Cinema"[29]
File:Belmont Cinema Aberdeen.jpg Aberdeen The Belmont Picturehouse 3 Sold in 2014 to the Centre for the Moving Image
Bury St Edmunds The Abbeygate Picturehouse 2 Sold June 2014 to Abbeygate Cinemas[30]
File:Bromley Picturehouse.jpg London – Bromley Bromley Picturehouse 6 House in a 1936 art deco building by George Coles, the venue became a Picturehouse cinema in June 2019.[31] It had a bar and kitchen.[32] Closed August 1, 2024[33]
File:Fulham Road Picturehouse 2024-03-13.jpg London – Chelsea Fulham Road Picturehouse 6 Formerly a Cineworld cinema, the venue opened as a Picturehouse on 8 December 2019. Closed July 11, 2024
File:Stratford Picture House.JPG London – Stratford Stratford Picturehouse 4 Host venue for the Sci-Fi London Film Festival and the Fighting Spirit Film Festival. Closed July 28, 2024[34]
File:Former cinema, Windsor Street - geograph.org.uk - 2302286.jpg Stratford Upon Avon Stratford Upon Avon Picturehouse 2 Closed down on 5 January 2020[35]

Industrial action

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In 2014, Cineworld was subject to industrial action owing to its refusal to pay the London living wage to its staff.[36] Started by workers at the Ritzy Cinema, Brixton, the resulting Ritzy Living Wage campaign attracted the support of Eric Cantona[37] and Terry Jones.[38]

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 spread to six Picturehouse cinemas, making it the biggest strike action ever by cinema workers in the UK.[39][40] Staff at the Ritzy Cinema were represented by BECTU while other cinemas were represented by the Picturehouse Staff Forum, a company union set up by management in 2003 and later run by Picturehouse staff.[41]

Strikes continued into 2018, when workplace reps were found to be unfairly dismissed and were instructed to be reinstated,[42] meanwhile Picturehouse claimed that they were one of the highest paying employers in the UK cinema industry.[43]

In 2019, following a membership vote, the Staff Forum (run by Picturehouse management) was dissolved and later removed by the Certification Officer from the official list of trade unions.[44] BECTU also called off the company boycott, stating "BECTU members have now agreed to suspend our Living Staff Living Wage campaign and call off the public boycott to focus on fighting for equal pay at the Ritzy and continuing to challenge the dismissal of other members. We won't rest until Ritzy and Picturehouse follows suit with other cinema employers we have successfully worked with and treats all its workers fairly."[45] As of 2026, Picturehouse cinemas still do not pay their frontline staff living wage.[46]

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