UK’s Empire Cinemas Enters Administration With Closures, Job Losses & Cinema Sales
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The UK’s Empire Cinemas, which operates at 14 locations with 129 screens, is entering administration.
The currently closed site at Sutton Coldfield is due to be sold and the cinemas at Bishop’s Stortford, Catterick Garrison, Sunderland, Swindon, Walthamstow and Wigan ceased trading today with a number of redundancies.
The remaining Empire sites located in Birmingham, Clydebank, High Wycombe, Ipswich and Sutton, and the two Tivoli sites in Bath and Cheltenham, will continue to trade as the administrators seek a buyer for some or all of the remaining cinemas within the group’s portfolio.
Scroll down for a list of the current status of cinemas in the group. The company did not immediately disclose how many job losses are anticipated or how many staff it employs.
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