Picturehouse Cinemas

Not to be confused with Picturehouse (company).

For other uses, see Picturehouse (disambiguation).

Picturehouse Cinemas

Industry	Leisure, Entertainment & Refreshments
Founded	1989
Founder	Lyn Goleby/Tony Jones
Headquarters	London, England, UK
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.

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  1 Locations
  
  
  
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    1.1 Current
    
  
  
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    1.2 Former
    
  
  
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    1.3 Planned
    
  
  
  
  


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  2 Industrial action
  


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  3 References
  


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  4 External links
  

Locations

Current

The original Phoenix Picturehouse in Oxford.^[5]

Location	Name	Screens	Notes
Ashford	Ashford Picturehouse	6
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 – West Norwood	West Norwood 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
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[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] Staff at the Ritzy Cinema are represented by BECTU while other cinemas are represented by the Picturehouse Staff Forum, a company union set up by management in 2003 and later run by Picturehouse staff.^[14]

Strikes continued into 2018, while Picturehouse state that they are one of the highest payers in the UK cinema industry.^[15]

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..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
   


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. 
    ^ picturehouseworkers, Author (2017-09-18). "Picturehouse Strikes 2016-". Picturehouse Workers' Blog. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
    


13. 
    ^ Smith, Mark D. "Picturehouse dispute: how far will Nero go?". Counterfire. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
    


14. 
    ^ picturehouseworkers, Author (2017-07-16). "2003: Staff Forum or Trade Union?". Picturehouse Workers' Blog. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
    


15. 
    ^ "Pay at Picturehouse". Picturehouses.
    

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