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Saving cinema: Why chains can't just rely on blockbusters and bad weather

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The Double Bill in the UK Cinema Industry

It's been a really hard time for the UK cinema industry. Empire, only just earlier this month, closed the doors of many of its cinemas. Sydney Worlds had the administrators in and waiting to sort of see how that unfolds. But I think what is behind it is this kind of double bill, this kind of pitting them against one another or putting them hand in hand with one another. The way it's captured people's imaginations and this kind of pairing of them is really got cinema audiences excited. They're really into it. And that's a big problem for studios who are putting their content very quickly onto their streamers, yes, they're getting their streaming audience, but

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