Advance ticket sales opened on September 13, with the film becoming the chain’s highest pre-selling title since Avengers: Endgame in 2019 after only four days. With final numbers still to be confirmed by distributor Universal, it may yet challenge for the widest release of all time in the region, currently held by Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker which opened on 744 sites in December 2019, just ahead of Mary Poppins Returns which went out on 743 a year before that.īoth of those titles were released by Walt Disney Studios Universal’s widest UK release to date is Downton Abbey, which started in 732 locations in September 2019.Ĭineworld, the UK and Ireland’s second largest cinema chain by number of venues, will be showing the film in all 100 of its sites, with the majority of those playing it at one minute past midnight on the Thursday opening day.

No Time To Die will open in over 700 cinemas across the UK and Ireland, marking the largest release of the year, surpassing the 650 sites for Disney’s Black Widow in July. Screen has spoken to stakeholders from across the sector about preparations for the 25th film in the Eon series, and what it could mean for the future of cinema in the territory. With cinemas still recovering from enforced closures across 20, the scarcity of tentpole blockbusters, combined with the underperformance of several that have released, has offset wider positivity around box office recovery. James Bond will return in seven days, and the release of No Time To Die on September 30 comes not a moment too soon for the UK cinema industry.

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