The choice of films on offer to UK cinema-goers is to be massively increased from later this year thanks to the creation of the world’s first ‘Digital Screen Network’ involving more than 200 cinemas across the country, the UK Film Council announced today. A total of £11.7 million from the UK Film Council’s share of National Lottery funding is to be used to install state-of-the-art digital film projectors and related equipment in 209 cinemas across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with the first cinemas in the network programming screenings later this year. In return for the new equipment, the cinemas, which range from smaller local and ‘art-house’ cinemas to multiplexes, have committed to providing more screening time to showing a greater selection of more specialised (ie non-Hollywood), classic, and foreign language movies. As a result more people will be able to see critically acclaimed films such as British multiple award winners Touching the Void and Vera Drake, House of Flying Daggers, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Downfall, Motorcycle Diaries and Dear Frankie.
UK Cinemas Film Boost
