Manchester’s Odeon Cinema in the Printworks is CLOSING DOWN

Lee-Antony Bennett | 9th May 2017

 

The highly popular Odeon cinema which is situated inside The Prinkworks, adjacent to Next, has today confirmed that after the 14th May 2017, it will no longer be in operation as an Odeon cinema.

Odeon confirmed the closure of it’s cinema branch in The Printworks, Manchester, in an email to it’s customers earlier today. The announcement comes after Vue Cinema’s reached an agreement with Odeon after it was ruled by the CMA (Competition and Markets Authority) that AMC Entertainment’s recent purchased the Odeon cinema group would lead to “an in-depth investigation unless AMC could address concerns over the merger’s effect on the competition between cinemas in Manchester.”

Odeon have confirmed that all 113 current employees will be kept on at the city centre 23-screen multiplex, after Vue cinema’s take over next week.

 

So what does this mean for any Odeon Limitless customers living in the City Centre?

 

Unfortunately, after the 14th May, Odeon Limitless customers will have to visit other Odeon cinema’s around Greater Manchester in order to carry on using their limitless memberships. Therefore, other local Odeon Cinema’s are now going to become busier with an influx of Limitless customers who can no longer use their limitless membership cards in Manchester City Centre.

This means that the Trafford Centre’s Odeon cinema will now become the main multiplex for limitless card owners in the Greater Manchester area.

 

Other Odeon Cinema’s in and close to Greater Manchester are:

  • Manchester – Trafford Centre – M17 8DF
  • Oldham – The Old Town Hall – OL1 1RA
  • Rochdale – Sandbrook Way – OL11 1RY
  • Huddersfield – Bradley Mills Road – HD1 6PG
  • Leeds-Bradford – Gallagher Leisure Park – BD3 7AT
  • Preston – Riversway – PR2 2YQ

 

 

Vue Cinema’s don’t currently offer an equivalent to the Odeon Limitless and Cineworld Unlimited Cards – hopefully this will change in the future so that City Centre residents can have the option to change so that they can still enjoy films at their local cinema.