Cheap tickets will be available across all of Britain as the scheme encourages people to visit their local cinemas. It’s National Cinema Day this Saturday in the UK as hundreds of cinemas across the country participate to provide affordable places for cinephiles to get stuck into a late summer blockbuster. The return of National Cinema Day will see more than 630 venues take part in a scheme to offer cinema tickets to the public from as little as £4 (€4.
75). All of the UK’s major cinema chains are taking part in the scheme including Vue, ODEON, and Cineworld, as well as a host of smaller independent chains such as Curzon, Reel, and HOME. The offer means people can take in all the late summer flicks that have hit the UK’s screens, from the satirical music-biopic , the surprisingly good sequel , to the damp squib of .
There’s also the mega blockbusters and to sate the rest. National Cinema Day was first developed in 2022 by Cinema First, with the support of the Film Distributors’ Association and the UK Cinema Association. After just a single week of promotion, there were over 1.
46 million tickets sold for the reduced fare, triple the usual daily numbers. For its second year in 2023, admissions increased by 6% to reach 1.56 million creating £5.
2 million (€6.2 million) for the UK box office. “National Cinema Day is fast becoming a Great British cultural event, sharing the joy and sociability of cinema across the nation.
This year we have more support than ever, a.
