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Cinemas and museums to reopen

Started by Fambo Number Mive, June 23, 2020, 10:35:53 AM

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holyzombiejesus

Eureka (or MY-reka) as my self-obsessed toddler cunt insists on calling it) re-opens in 3 weeks. How the fuck can something that is designed for shit loads of filthy little kids to touch and slobber on ever be safe? Apparently, they're spraying everything weekly with disinfectant.

olliebean

A lot of those drive-in events seem to be getting cancelled now, due to concerns about further lockdowns (and also because not enough people were spending £30+/car to go to them).

My local cinema is now reopen but not bothering to assign seating or allocate a distanced seating plan, so presumably they're relying on cinema-goers to only book seats that are apart from the others, or don't care. Feels inevitable it'll be a big dark sweaty COVID petri dish. It's a decent cinema and I hope it survives but Fuck That.

Blinder Data

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on July 16, 2020, 10:33:21 AM
Is that the GFT or are others at it?

If so, that 30 quid only gets you into one of the multiple showings on a given day!

Yeah, it's GFT. I don't understand how it could be so expensive. Maybe they've had to increase prices due to social distancing.

I bet you if I bought tickets it would rain buckets. Some countries just aren't made for drive-in cinema.

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: Blinder Data on July 17, 2020, 01:17:54 PM
Yeah, it's GFT. I don't understand how it could be so expensive. Maybe they've had to increase prices due to social distancing.

I bet you if I bought tickets it would rain buckets. Some countries just aren't made for drive-in cinema.

It is steep but it's per car isn't it? Assuming a family of 4 that's a tenner less than taking them all to the cinema even without snacks.

They seem to be pushing it as an event rather than a quiet cinema experience though, same as the music parts, which would be ok if you're a passenger, but utter shit as the designated driver.

steveh

Cineworld reported to be shutting down all their cinemas until the new year due to a lack of decent releases. Staff apparently not informed before the story in the Sunday Times.

Not yet known if the Cineworld-owned Picturehouse will be doing the same.

Fambo Number Mive

This wouldn't have appened if Sunak had extended furlough until we had a vaccine. Although if I owned Cineworld I would have kept them on on full pay, for moral reasons and because otherwise it would cost a lot of money to hire and retrain new people once there is a vaccine.

olliebean

Cineworld's use of the word "unviable" could be a subtle swipe at Sunak for refusing to support (temporarily) "unviable" businesses. Cineworld are lucky enough to be able to shut down for several months and then open up again (cold comfort though for the employees that will lose their jobs in the run-up to Christmas). Loads of smaller businesses won't be able to afford to do that, and will have to shut up shop permanently.

Blinder Data

Peckhamplex, which I have visited only once but seemed like a fantastic independent community cinema, has also temporarily closed its doors.

I said it in the Bond thread - EON's decision to reschedule the release looks like it will be devastating to cinemas across the UK. Selfish knobs.

Sebastian Cobb


Butchers Blind

Just a heads up, apparently you can watch films at home.

I'm joking, its sad workers will lose their jobs and that but people in cinemas are cunts mostly and have no understanding how to behave in public.

Sebastian Cobb


Head Gardener

sad about the jobs but Cineworld tickets are twice as expensive as Vue & Odeon cinemas so little sympathy here

UK cinemas will live to Die Another Day.

April 5, end of the financial year.

Blue Jam

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on October 04, 2020, 02:56:13 PM
Good thread here from the Odeon Worker's Union on the Cineworld closure.
https://twitter.com/OdeonUnion/status/1312545452299112448?s=20

https://mobile.twitter.com/OdeonUnion/status/1313054983512784898

QuoteWork and pensions secretary Thérèse Coffey told Nick Ferrari that Cineworld workers "who are used to doing customer service and aspects of hospitality" could become care workers

Fucking hell.

dissolute ocelot

Priti Patel could station thousands of ex-Cineworld workers with torches around the coast looking for illegal immigrants.

steveh

Analysts on Twitter saying that even without paying staff Cineworld will be insolvent soon and nobody would invest in a cinema chain right now. Even before the virus struck they weren't in a great state so they likely wouldn't be a viable business even with government help.

Would be bad for less mainstream films if their collapse took down Picturehouse as well, who not only have their own venues but programme and distribute films to a number of independent operators too.

Looks like Odeon will be going weekend-only as well.

Fambo Number Mive

Quote from: Blue Jam on October 05, 2020, 12:03:16 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/OdeonUnion/status/1313054983512784898

Fucking hell.

Exactly. People going into the care sector because they have no other choice is how we end up with more care workers ill suited to working in the care sector, leading to a rise in poor care.

Meanwhile, Johnson has four options to avoid other cinema chains cutting jobs

1. Get Sunak to extend furlough until a vaccine is widely rolled out.
2. Pull his finger out and actually do something to fight virus, meaning cinemas can safely re-open earlier.
3. Do both 1 and 2 (the best option)
4. Encourage people to return to the cinema even though it is not safe.

He has chosen option 4.

Sebastian Cobb

It seems to be not just cinemas, the whole art/entertainment sector is something the tories seem to be quite happy to let fail.

Duckula

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on October 05, 2020, 01:59:19 PM
Exactly. People going into the care sector because they have no other choice is how we end up with more care workers ill suited to working in the care sector, leading to a rise in poor care.

Meanwhile, Johnson has four options to avoid other cinema chains cutting jobs

1. Get Sunak to extend furlough until a vaccine is widely rolled out.
2. Pull his finger out and actually do something to fight virus, meaning cinemas can safely re-open earlier.
3. Do both 1 and 2 (the best option)
4. Encourage people to return to the cinema even though it is not safe.

He has chosen option 4.

How the cunting fuck are people going to return to a closed cinema?

Fambo Number Mive

I presume he means other cinema chains that haven't closed like Cineworld.

November 2020 - With cases reaching 40,000 per day and deaths at 200 per day, Prime Minister Boris Johnson blames an increase in the number of people going to the cinema for the continued rise in cases, before making it illegal to be a member of a communist or socialist party and offering Laurence Fox a peerage.

Fambo Number Mive

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on October 05, 2020, 02:32:09 PM
It seems to be not just cinemas, the whole art/entertainment sector is something the tories seem to be quite happy to let fail.

Can't have the proles experiencing culture, keep them at home in front of GB News with a copy of the Telegraph and a Wetherspoons takeout.



Blue Jam

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on October 05, 2020, 01:59:19 PM
Exactly. People going into the care sector because they have no other choice is how we end up with more care workers ill suited to working in the care sector, leading to a rise in poor care.

My main issue is that care work is so vastly different from "customer service and hospitality" work that it would be totally unreasonable to try and push ex-cinema workers in that direction. Care work is physically demanding, messy and stressful in a way that selling popcorn just isn't.

As a research scientist who works on a disease of ageing and whose job is at risk I suppose I could also get told I could "just" become a carer instead, to which I would say "fuck that".

George Oscar Bluth II

Mind boggling to me that they're not at the very least extending the furlough for certain sectors. Cinemas, theatres, nightclubs etc. When this is over, what exactly are they expecting people to do when they're not working? Because as it stands, the post-covid world (staying in more because there's nowhere to go and nothing to do) looks a lot like the covid world (staying in more because you don't want to get the virus)

Fambo Number Mive

Hancock will probably try and get Johnson to set up some kind of 24 hour horse racing where half the population are in the betting shops losing their money and the other half are at the local Serco Racetrack losing their money. It'll be run by Dido Harding.


BlodwynPig

Never thought this thread would be the one to tip me over the depression precipice after all these months...and I haven't been to a cinema (in the UK) for years.

DrGreggles

The Arts Picturehouse in Cambridge closes on Friday.

Dayraven

All Picturehouses do — they're part of Cineworld.