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City centre multiplex cinema to close
The 9.40pm screening of Napoleon on Thursday, November 30 could be the final film ever screened at Showcase Cinema De Lux.
The cinema’s website is not accepting any bookings from December, with customers wanting tickets for movies at the Cabot Circus multiplex being directed instead to the Showcase in Avonmeads.
The shock closure of Cinema De Lux comes as the only cinema in south Bristol, Cineworld in Hengrove Leisure Park, is set to close on November 26.
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The doors to Showcase Cinema De Lux will close at the end of November – photo: Martin Booth
Cinema De Lux has 13 screens and has formed part of Cabot Circus since the shopping centre opened in September 2008, with its first film being romcom How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.
As well as the new releases it has screened over the years, the cinema has also hosted premieres of Bristol-made productions including Aardman’s Early Man in 2018.
Cinema De Lux has been a major part of Cabot Circus since the shopping centre opened in 2008 – photo: Martin Booth
In a statement, Showcase Cinemas said that “due to our inability to agree terms on a new lease with the landlords, our cinema in Cabot Circus, Bristol will cease trading with effect from the close of business on Thursday 30th November 2023”.
Showcase Cinemas UK managing director, Crispin Lilly, said: “We would like to thank all the customers who have visited since we opened at Cabot Circus in 2008 and we hope they have enjoyed their time with us.
“We would also like to thank our committed team of employees at the site for their passion, dedication and hard work, especially over the last few difficult years.
“We are committed to delivering great cinema experiences to Bristol audiences and hope that customers will visit our other cinema in the city, less than three miles away at Avonmeads.
“We have recently invested in this site and it now features the only fully customisable recliner cinema seating in Bristol within our state of the art de Lux auditoria.”
Bristol24/7 has contacted Cabot Circus for comment.
Main photo: Martin Booth
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