The posters for No Time To Die are still up as cinema-goers say goodbye to their local picture houses
“Escape to other worlds,” the Cineworld website urges its customers, and even after the announcement that the chain was closing 127 sites across the UK, the company’s cinemas continued to make good on that promise of alternative realities.
At the Stevenage multiplex, a trailer played for Death On the Nile and promised a 23 October release that has in fact been shunted back to December. A few minutes later, a traditionally booming voiceover man celebrated the chain’s revival over footage of popcorn and plush red seats. “The interval is over,” he announced. “Cineworld is back.”
