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Author Topic: VUe cinemas - like the name? Michael Harlow Expert Film Handler Posts: 170 From: Faversham, Kent, UK Registered: Jul 2002 posted 05-19-2003 05:50 PM                     Im not sure how it works in the US but here in the UK you can buy a McDonalds franchise and trade as that name, normally it costs about £150,000 to £600,000. Village Roadshow (i thought) were a financial backer / operator. Warner as far as i am aware have had cinemas here in the UK for 20 odd years, i suppose the right offer came along and they took it  |  IP: Logged Dave Hall Film Handler Posts: 16 From: Watford, UK Registered: Jan 2003 posted 05-19-2003 06:56 PM                     I think yeh, it will be a good thing for us Lee... Hopefully a lot of the bullshit bureaucracy will disappear so that we can conentrate on exhibition. We are one of the few sites to still have a maintenance guy, we're praying they don't get rid of him! The one thing that concerns me is that rumour states the sale was delayed because SBC were £5m short of the price. This is worrying because that is £140k per site *less* that they have to spend on re-branding efforts. The only negativity I've encountered is from h/o staff who don't want to re-locate to Chiswick!... Here's the company line on the website: quote: the site is only a temporary version the new one will be launched when the sites are rebranded and the WVC website is closed down in 6 mths, i believe it was a quick and dirty version developed in house for no cost just to have a Vue website! Village owned some cinemas in the UK themselves before they went into a joint venture with WB. These sites (6 of them) are still owned by Village but will be managed by SBC.  |  IP: Logged

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