A YORK cinema will re-open tomorrow after a £3 million refurbishment, with almost every ticket sold.
The Everyman, created in the former Reel and Odeon cinema in Blossom Street, features sofas instead of seats, with food and drink served directly to customers in the auditoriums.
The owners claim it will offer a brand new night out experience for York, and customers have responded by buying all the tickets for every screening tomorrow of films including Star Wars:The last Jedi, The Greatest Showman and Murder on the Orient Express. Only Paddington 2 in the morning had any tickets left to buy by yesterday afternoon.
The firm’s revamp of the 80-year-old Grade II listed art deco building has cut each screen’s seating capacity as well as taking the cinema down from five to four screens.
The huge auditorium of Screen One will have sofa seating for just 144 when there used to be several hundred seats. Screen Four will a capacity of only 20.
The old Screen 5 to the right of the entrance doors is becoming a Spielburger restaurant, but this is not ready to open as yet.
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