Cineworld Fears Of Bankruptcy

[Osi Osgood]

Well, the money is in the food, not stories, sad but t true, as many have commented on previously. Remember that post mere weeks ago as to how some places are having a regular restaurant dining experience with they're stories?

[Mike Newell]

Yum yum in my tum. Imagine going to cinema and listening and smelling patrons gouging their way through burgers, chicken or whatever. No doubt sitting in their underwear like the KFC home delivery ad with a few tinnies. Delightful. a few farts and belches thrown into the auditorium.

Bet you they all have bed side lights too so no full darkness either in the auditorium.

Proper cinemas will survive the top end and the independent but the multiplexes are toast. The money is in streaming and subscriptions and the movie companies know it.

Apparently live theatres are having problems with unruly audiences too as they have forgotten how to interact with others since COVID and are tanked up before they arrive or in the theatre bars.

It really has come full circle. In Shakespeare days at the Globe theatre the audience brought their dinners to the performance and threw leftovers at actors when they didn’t like the play.

Imagine a plate of lasagne or chilli fired at the cinema screen. No wonder they don’t have curtains.

Ain’t you glad you built a home cinema?

[Steve Lee]

How many times have we seen this kind of thing happen over the years, all of these companies think they can just muscle in taking out all of the competition. This not just about cinemas, it's everything. Independent shops, cinemas, bars etc

I think the prime example of this was Jessops camera shops in the U.K. The company went round to every town and to every camera shop and told them that they were doing to sell their business to them. When they refused Jessops went to the landlord of that shop, and bribed them to double the rent so they went out of business. Where are they all now? all gone. and good riddance!

The problem is when they all get to big for their own boots, all of this on borrowed money, what do they think is going to happen?
As the old saying goes "The higher you climb the further you fall"
And at the end of the day nobody wins.

[Brian Fretwell]

Jessops was a great catalogue mail order company, it went right down hill when it opened too many shops often 2 in the same shopping area. Maplin Electronics went the same way. Neither are with us now.

[Ken Finch]

Maplins still exists as mail order only from their main warehouse. In Essex, but they do not have the range of electronic spare parts etc. that they used to. Ken Finch.😊

[Ken Finch]

As I have mentioned before, our local cinema is an independent and still has screen curtains and lighting as in the good old days. It is all pogrammed to run automatically. It well supported and attendances are slowly improving following the pandemic and is run by an enthusiastic and welcoming team. Ken Finch 😊