Picturehouse Cinemas

Largest group of independent cinemas in the UK.

Picturehouse Cinemas, the UK’s leading independent cinema operator, is a stand-alone entity within Cineworld Group plc, its acquisition having been announced in early December 2012. Formed in 1989, Picturehouse provides cinemas in city-centre locations to serve local communities and offer a broader range of films. Picturehouse now owns and operates 21 cinemas; the most recent openings were the Hackney Picturehouse and Brighton’s Dukes @ Komedia. The company also programmes an additional 36 independently operated venues throughout the UK. Picturehouse draws on more than 18 years’ experience in tailoring diverse and commercially successful programmes, spanning art-house and independent features, world cinema and quality mainstream titles, as well as short films and touring seasons. The company prides itself on being at the forefront of digital cinema and other business and technical developments, such as pioneering a wide variety of live Screen Arts cinecasts of performance arts events, including from the National Theatre, the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House, as well as regular filmmaker Q&As. Sister company Picturehouse Entertainment launched in 2010. Recent releases include BAFTA-winning The Imposter, Shane Meadows’ The Stone Roses: Made of Stone and Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England.