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Cinema group risked default in holding out over contested additional costs
Staff face job uncertainty as investors approve potential £65m share award for chief
CEO and deputy in line to receive stock-based awards, even as many staff remain on furlough
Some top shareholders and proxy advisers come out against award pegged to rise in cinema company’s share price
Cineworld’s refinancing points to grim survival; Heathrow and high-end retailers battle VAT relief plans
World’s second largest cinema chain agrees new $450m loan
Shareholders will probably be called on to get cinema chain in line with the new realities
Cinema chain looks at cutting rents and permanently closing UK screens
Small budget movies get rare chance if cinemas stay open
The postponement of the new Bond feature has the multiplexes in meltdown. But film is about much more than blockbusters
Send in the clowns
Pandemic cements a lost year for the movie industry and upends its business model
Decision to mothball almost 700 cinemas comes as studios delay releases and audiences dwindle
Cinema chain draws curtains on screens; Mulberry suffers at home on the high street
More than 30,000 jobs affected as pandemic and film delays devastate cinema business
Chief executive says cinema chain is looking at ‘every kind of possibility’ for raising capital
Covid crisis has thrown UK-listed cinema chain’s business model into disarray
Cinema owners had been gearing up for a grand reopening in July
Cineworld chief known as a ‘ruthless’ negotiator unlikely to be deterred by Canadian failure
World’s second-largest cinema chain accused of ‘buyers remorse’ by Canadian rival
Closure of cinemas has wiped more than C$1bn from Canadian company’s value
Hammerson’s woes go beyond retail reopenings; Cineworld spurns Cineplex; Little bp
UK-based cinema chain says Canadian group had suffered ‘material adverse effect’
The plot hole in cinema operator’s fairy tale is its planned purchase of Canada’s Cineplex
Optimism of large chains belies scepticism that film goers will flock back
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