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The success of Barbie and Oppenheimer at the box office has led to Vue International reporting its biggest weekend for UK cinema ticket sales since before the pandemic.On Sunday, the cinema chain said a fifth of its customers had bought tickets to see both films in a double bill given the moniker Barbenheimer on social media.More than 2,000 of Vue’s screenings for Barbie were sold out, according to the company.The two films, released on Friday, have contrasting storylines with Greta Gerwig’s comedy about the famous doll…

Tim Richards is celebrating a milestone he feared he might not see – the 20th anniversary of the creation of Vue, Europe’s largest privately owned cinema chain. That achievement looked precarious in the pandemic, when the world’s biggest cinema operators were pushed to the brink.“When it is your baby, your firstborn, going through this, it is very tough,” says Richards, who is in recovery mode himself, having “had an argument with a tree and lost” on a recent heli-skiing trip in his native Canada.“It has been…

Vue cinemas across the country will not show previously scheduled films on Monday 19 September and will, instead, show coverage of the Queen’s funeral. In an announcement made on Tuesday (13 September), the popular cinema chain announced that it would be airing the monarch’s funeral in select venues. The screenings will be free and will include a complimentary bottle of water for attendees.No other drinks or snacks will be available for purchase, and all other screenings will be cancelled.Other chains including Cineworld…

Welcome! Happy to see you in the seventh part of my Vuejs Amsterdam Conference 2022 summary series, in which I share a summary of all the talks with you.You can read my JSWorld Conference 2022 Summary series (in four parts) here, where I summarized all the first day’s talks. You can also find the previous Talks of the Vue Amsterdam conference 2022 in my blog.(Recurring) Introduction After two and a half years, JSWorld and Vue Amsterdam Conference were back in Theater Amsterdam between 1 and 3 June, and I had the chance to…

Welcome! Happy to see you in the seventh part of my Vuejs Amsterdam Conference 2022 summary series, in which I share a summary of all the talks with you.You can read my JSWorld Conference 2022 Summary series (in four parts) here, where I summarized all the first day’s talks. You can also find the previous Talks of the Vue Amsterdam conference 2022 in my blog.(Recurring) Introduction After two and a half years, JSWorld and Vue Amsterdam Conference were back in Theater Amsterdam between 1 and 3 June, and I had the chance to…

Welcome! Happy to see you in the sixth part of my Vuejs Amsterdam Conference 2022 summary series, in which I share a summary of all the talks with you.You can read my JSWorld Conference 2022 Summary series (in four parts) here, where I summarized all the first day’s talks. You can also find the previous Talks of the Vue Amsterdam conference 2022 in my blog.(Recurring) Introduction After two and a half years, JSWorld and Vue Amsterdam Conference were back in Theater Amsterdam between 1 and 3 June, and I had the chance to…

Welcome! Happy to see you in the fifth part of my Vuejs Amsterdam Conference 2022 summary series, in which I share a summary of all the talks with you. You can read my JSWorld Conference 2022 Summary series (in four parts) here, where I summarized all the first day's talks. You can also find the previous Talks of the Vue Amsterdam conference 2022 in my blog.(Recurring) Introduction After two and a half years, JSWorld and Vue Amsterdam Conference were back in Theater Amsterdam between 1 and 3 June, and I had the chance to…

Vue has denied cancelling screenings of a brand new horror film due to it’s “offensive” content.On Wednesday (1 June), a screenshot of what appeared to an email from a Vue employee was shared online by Rob Savage, the director of Dashcam.The email, seemingly sent to a customer who had purchased a ticket to see Dashcam, claimed that all screenings were cancelled “due to the contents of the movie, which may offend our audience”.However, in a statement to The Independent, a Vue spokesperson said:“Our decision not to screen…

A new film is considered so offensive that Vue cinemas have cancelled all scheduled screenings. Those who had purchased tickets to see Dashcam, the new found footage horror from Host director Rob Savage, were surprised when they realised screenings would no longer take place.This was brought to the attention of Savage himself, who shared an email from a Vue employee received by one customer.“Apparently @vuecinemas have canceled our screenings of DASHCAM because the movie is too offensive!” he wrote on Twitter, adding: “If…