We are delighted that we have been able to reopen our cinemas in England. You can fall in love with cinema again with some all-time classics and recent favourites on the big screen for just £5 a ticket – with tickets available very soon! Then of course, the new blockbusters will follow, with great films ahead in the coming weeks and months including The New Mutants, Tenet and Bond is back in No Time To Die.

Already open are the Showcase Cinema de Lux locations at Nottingham, Peterborough, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Teesside, Glasgow, Paisley, Coventry, Bluewater, Southampton, Derby, Bristol and Reading, along with Showcase Cardiff Nantgarw, Newham, Walsall and Dudley

Showcase Bristol Avonmeads and Derby Foresters will reopen on August 21

 More information will follow in due course regarding Showcase Manchester

Of course, the cinema experience will be a little different to what you will have become used to. We have been working hard preparing for our re-opening by making all our sites as Showcase Safe as possible for the comfort of both staff and guests, which has always been our top priority. The video below shows the new enhanced health and safety protocols which are designed to help everyone “Be Showcase Safe”. 

To summarise, the Be Showcase Safe experience includes:

BEFORE YOU ARRIVE

Do not enter the cinema if you are experiencing any Covid-19 symptoms

Please book in advance online and use contactless where possible for any transactions in cinema – you can also purchase your favourite food and drink online to pick up when you get to the cinema

We encourage the wearing of a face covering. Face coverings are mandatory in England and Scotland but may be removed when eating and drinking.

Please avoid entering the cinema until 10 minutes before the film’s scheduled start time

IN THE CINEMA LOBBY

Hand sanitiser stations and anti-bacterial wipes available for guests to use

Observe social distancing throughout the cinema, including within the auditorium

Protective screens have been installed at each till point

Using your booking confirmation email, you can now scan this on your smartphone to enter your film

IN THE AUDITORIUM

Certain seats will not be available to be booked to allow for social distancing between parties

There will be fewer shows each day with increased time between shows to allow for thorough cleaning of the auditorium

Air purifying systems are to be added which kill airborne viruses 

Where possible, help us by leaving the screen directly into the car park at the cinemas that have them

STAFF MEASURES

Employees will be temperature checked before their shift and will have appropriate PPE

All staff have undertaken enhanced safety and cleaning training

CLEANING

We are introducing an enhanced cleaning regime with high touch point areas cleaned every 30 minutes

A new non-chemical anti-viral spray used on every seat after every show, and at the end of each day

INSIDER REWARDS, GIFT CARDS AND VOUCHERS

If you are an Insider member who had rewards that were due to expire during our closure, these have been extended until 1 October.

If you have a £5 bonus gift card that was due to expire on 31 March 2020, this has been extended until 31 August.

If you hold any pass or voucher with a validity date that falls in the period that we are closed, it will be honoured for the same length of time after the expiry date shown that we were closed for.

We hope that you and your loved ones are healthy and we hope to see you back at Showcase soon!

*£5 tickets for all previously released films. Standard prevailing ticket pricing applies to new film releases