Paddington Bear to keep Cineworld happy November 18, 2014 CINEWORLD Group reported yesterday that sales grew by 1.1 per cent in the first 46 weeks of the year, despite the World Cup holding back admissions. It is looking forward to a good fourth quarter with the release of Paddington Bear and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.
Cineworld lifted by Cinema City revenue growth August 14, 2014 CINEWORLD, the largest cinema operator in the UK, reported a 33 per cent bump in revenues during the first half of the year, after its £900m takeover of European chain Cinema City helped offset weaker UK ticket sales. The Lego Movie, The Wolf of Wall Street and Twelve Years a Slave helped UK revenues to [...]
Cineworld gets a box office kicking during 2014 World Cup July 3, 2014 The biggest player in the UK cinema market, Cineworld, has seen its UK box office revenues fall by 0.6 per cent in the first six months of the year. The cinema group said yesterday the slight fall in sales was largely due to the popularity of the World Cup, which began in early [...]
Cineworld boss and founder to quit next year November 20, 2013 CINEWORLD chief executive Steve Wiener, who founded the business 18 years ago, will leave the UK’s largest cinema chain at the end of March 2014, the company announced yesterday. Wiener, who has worked in the cinema industry for 44 years, left his job as managing director of Warner Bros Europe in 1995 to set up [...]