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CINEWORLD is preparing to shut down its 128 movie theatres across the country in the coming weeks, putting up to 5,500 jobs at risk.
Staff at Britain’s biggest cinema chain say they first learned of the decision through a report in yesterday’s Sunday Times.
Cineworld bosses wrote to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden this weekend to say that delays to blockbuster releases have rendered the industry unviable.
Enduring myths blame print unions for their own destruction – but TONY BURKE argues that the Wapping dispute was a calculated assault by Murdoch on organised labour, which reshaped Britain’s media landscape and casts a long shadow over trade union rights today
RITA DI SANTO reports on the films from Iran, Spain, Belgium and Brazil that won the top awards
