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City Screen to charge £3 for tickets on Saturday in inaugural Picturehouse offer

City Screen Picturehouse York: £3 ticket offer on Saturday

CITY Screen Picturehouse York’s inaugural £3 Ticket Day will take place on Saturday.

In a celebration of cinema spanning all 26 Picturehouse cinemas in the UK, all visitors can watch any film at any time for only £3 a ticket. 

Cinemagoers will have the chance to sample the diversity of films on offer at Picturehouse, including this Friday’s new releases The Duke and Cyrano, alongside opportunities to catch some of the biggest releases of the past year, such as Belfast and West Side Story, and Picturehouse Entertainment’s The Souvenir Part II.

Picturehouse’s reDiscover season will be celebrating the work of Studio Ghibli, and no film is more eagerly awaited than the 50th anniversary release of Francis Ford Coppola’s mafia epic The Godfather, all guns blazing on Friday. 

Clare Binns, Picturehouse’s joint managing director, says: “Saturday is a chance to celebrate great cinema. At Picturehouse we believe in the power, the fun, the joy of sharing great films together.

“After such a tough two years, this is an opportunity to invite you to sample a range of brilliant films on the big screen for only £3 a ticket.

“We curate our film programme with love and passion and want people to come in and celebrate with us on this exciting day for cinema lovers everywhere. Cinema on the big screen is well and truly back in all its diverse glory.”

Films playing  at City Screen York Picturehouse on Saturday:

The Duke; Belfast; Death On The Nile; The Souvenir II; The Beatles: Get Back – The Rooftop Concert; Cyrano; Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind and My Neighbour Totoro.

For full listings for February 26, go to: picturehouses.com/whats-on?date=2022-02-26

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CORONAVIRUS: City Screen closed from today in line with all Picturehouse cinemas

Going dark: City Screen, York, is closed until further notice

CITY Screen, York, is closed from today, in response to the Coronavirus epidemic, in line with all fellow cinemas in the Picturehouse chain.

A statement from “the Picturehouse Team” says: “It’s with great sadness that Picturehouse is today announcing the closure of all its cinemas across the UK, starting from Wednesday, March 18 2020, until further notice.

“This decision was made in the light of the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and recent UK government advice, which the company has been carefully monitoring and following.

“The safety and well-being of our customers, our members and our staff is our utmost priority at Picturehouse and we are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment within our cinemas.” 

All City Screen – and Picturehouse at large – customers who pre-booked tickets online or on the phone will be emailed and then be issued a refund automatically within 14 days. 

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Customers who purchased tickets in person should contact enquiries@picturehouses.co.uk, where the customer care team will be able to assist.

Picturehouse memberships, including at City Screen, will retain their value and all members will be contacted in due course with further information. 

The statement continues: “We deeply value our cinema-loving audience and staff and their health and wellbeing is our number one priority during this difficult time. We look forward to welcoming our Picturehouse customers back through our doors as soon as possible.

“We will continue to update customers via our email mailing list and please follow our social media channels.” 

Those channels are:

Twitter: @picturehouses

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/picturehouses/

Instagram:@picturehouses