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Another view of the ABC

13 forgotten Blackpool cinemas which were once treasured

Tenpin Blackpool opens at Festival Leisure Park on Rigby Road

19 fabulous pictures as Blackpool's new Tenpin opens its doors

Tenpin

Tenpin to create major new indoor entertainment venue in Blackpool

New holiday home, ATM & updates to the old Odeon: plans submitted in Blackpool last week

All the interesting plans submitted in Blackpool last week

Can Timothee Chalamet add an Oscar to his Best Actor Award for "Marty Supreme" at the Critics Choice Awards earlier this year?

Oscars 2026: Two tickets £10.99 or five £20.99

Nearly a fifth of 2,000 adults polled have no plans at all for December.

First there was Quiet Quitting, now there is Quiet Christmas

14 interesting planning applications submitted in Blackpool recently

14 interesting planning applications submitted in Blackpool recently

What better way to avoid the door knockers this Halloween than a trip to your local cinema to catch one of these frighteningly good releases this season?

What horror films are coming to cinemas for Halloween 2025?

The former Odeon building is being marketed for leisure use

Update on Blackpool's empty Odeon cinema as development hopes revived

The former Odeon cinema in Blackpool

Future of former Odeon site is uncertain following planning decision

The latest film in the "Transformers" franchise is released this weekend, but is it worth going to see in the cinema or is it another "Transformers" movie worth missing instead?

Reviews, run time and age rating as new Transformers film released

Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton return as Lydia Deetz and Betelguese in Tim Burton's long-awaited sequel to 1988's "Beetlejuice." "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" arrives to UK cinemas this weekend.

Is Beetlejuice Beetlejuice suitable for kids as it releases this week?

(Photos: Pexels/Getty Images)

How to get £4 movie tickets at 600+ UK cinemas - for one weekend only

Artist’s impressions show the revised design (credit AIM Land Ltd)

Revised plans revealed for empty former Odeon cinema site

Bill Skarsgård has very big boots to fill, as he takes on the role made famous by the late Brandon Lee (right) with the "modern reimagining" of "The Crow," out in UK cinemas later this week.

Everything you need to know about The Crow remake ahead of release
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Benjamin Jackson

Cailee Spaeny stars in the seventh installment in the long running "Alien" franchise - "Alien: Romulus," which is released in UK cinemas from today (August 16 2024.)

Is “Alien: Romulus” worth going to see in the cinema this weekend?

Artist's impression of the proposed Odeon redevelopment (picture from Austringer Capital)

Inquiry will decide future of Blackpool's former Odeon cinema

"Borderlands" has been critically savaged since opening in August 2024 - but is it on track to be this year's biggest box office flop?

What have been the biggest box office flops of 2024 so far?

The Odeon cinema on Port Way in Preston is available to buy for £6,560,000

Odeon's Preston cinema up for sale with eye-watering price tag

(Photo: Odeon)

Odeon to open Luxe venues with reclining seats ahead of release season

(Photos: Pexels)

Kids Club cinema - your guide to Kids Clubs and discounts this summer

Diane Carson don the cloak of The Evil Enchantress in Beauty and the Beast

I was asked about panto soon after I got out & I thought that’d be fun

Credit: Lisa Ferguson

Family activities to do for £5 or less this May half-term

Preston City Ghostbusters Emmy Bell 36, Alex Lythgoe, 26, and Myke Bell, 38, chat trapping ghouls, entertaining kids and raising money for various charities.

I've fulfilled my childhood dream and now I'm a Ghostbuster

Jordan North and William Hanson have announced their podcast tour 'Help I Sexted My Boss LIVE' will be in 400 cinemas across the UK, Ireland and select European cities on Tuesday, May 14.

Tickets go on sale for Help I Sexted My Boss cinema release

Charles Hanson with chicken leg stilts used in Star Wars (Credit: Hansons / SWNS)

I found a pair of giant chicken leg stilts used by my dad in Star Wars
They were featured in the cult sci-fi movie just after the famous bar scene.
Sean Gleaves

The rise of Blackpool cinema: "It’s the ceremony... It’s an event.”

Rendezvous Cinema was in Bond Street, South Shore. This was 1956

13 lost cinemas which were once treasured including the Odeon and ABC

Fresh plans emerge at former Odeon site with new Starbucks underway

Artisit's impression of the proposed Bloomfield Central development at the former Odeon site

Dismantling of former cinema on track - but its future still to be decided

Work underway to remove the interior of the former Odeon (picture from Pete Marquis)

Blackpool Odeon is no more as screens and seating ripped out

A computer generated image of the proposed new Bloomfield Central

Readers have their say on plans to redevelop former Odeon into storage facility

A computer generated image of the proposed new Blackpool Central

Plans submitted to redevelop former Odeon cinema

Barbie (Warner Bros picture)

Barbie Movie: Is it worth the hype?

Blue Light Card holders will be able to get exclusive offers this weekend

Blue Light Weekend launches with huge offers - how to claim

The Backlot Cinema under construction

Work stepping up to raise curtain on new cinema

Blackpool Odeon is closing for good due to the redevelopment of Festival Park

Blackpool has its say on Odeon cinema closure

Breaking Odeon cinema to close several UK branches within days - full list

Now this was possibly the 1990's answer to Primark and was a teen paradise for discount clothes and bargains. You had to rummage though for that going out top...

14 scenes which look back at life growing up in Blackpool in the 90s

Odeon will close a number of cinemas in the UK next month

Full list of Odeon cinemas closing in the UK next month

Derek Walsh on Derek's Books stall, Preston Market

Derek’s Books: legendary Preston Market trader on 45 years’ trading

Blackpool Odeon is closing for good due to the redevelopment of Festival Park.

Blackpool Odeon set to close its doors for final time ahead of redevelopment

Smashing the social glass ceiling: wine tasting in Tuscany

From grey skies in Oldham to wine tasting in Tuscany | Jack Marshall’s column

Artist's impression of the Odeon Cinema if it is converted into a family entertainment centre

Blackpool Odeon Cinema proposals due to go before town hall planners

This is probably how many people will remember the Odeon Cinema. This was in 1994 the year of Forest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction

10 picture memories of Blackpool's old Odeon Cinema

The demolition of the old Odeon cinema and Tokyo Jo’s nightclub on Church Street, Preston
Exclusive picture by Iain Lynn

Demolition delayed at fire-hit nightclub due to 'possible body'

Fire ravaged former Odeon cinema and Tokyo Jo's nightclub in Church Street, Preston
Credit: Pete Marquis

Watch the moment main wall of former Tokyo Jo's is brought down

Cheapest Dr Strange 2 tickets revealed

Blackpool Odeon

Blackpool Odeon: Future of cinema unclear as plans unveiled for site

Cliff Richard in 1963

Sir Cliff Richard wore a white jacket, black slacks and a handful of Brylcreem i...

The big screen is back as cinemas in Blackpool, Cleveleys and St Annes reopen.

Here's what films are showing at Odeon, Island and Vue cinemas in Blackpool, Cle...

Screenings will be limited

Odeon confirms plans to reopen on May 17

Spring daffodils

Blackpool nostalgia in 2002: Fylde's war on dog fouling, Funny Girls and rubbish...

The news comes after fellow chains Cineworld and Odeon also announced closures (Photo: Alex Davidson/Getty Images)

A quarter of Vue cinemas will shut for three days every week - the full list of ...

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