The Queen's funeral will also be a public bank holiday.
Customers will now be able to prove their identity through an app.
Cinema admissions in the UK are set to be the lowest since records began, back in 1928.
The studio has issued a statement saying it wants to support the industry by releasing the film into cinemas.
A total of 663 Cineworld, Regal and Picturehouse theatres will close temporarily.
Cineworld confirmed on Monday that it will temporarily shut all of its sites across the country.
The chain cited the ‘ongoing delays to the release of many new films’ as a reason for reducing its opening hours.
The closures come after the latest James Bond film was postponed until next year.
Boris Johnson has announced that face coverings will be legally required in cinemas in England from 8 August.
Strange times call for strange movies suddenly topping the UK box office, decades after they were first released.
The UK cinema chain has pushed back the original opening dates by three weeks.
Staff at Cineworld are petitioning the owners of the chain for customers to wear masks when venues re-open in July.
Cineworld will reopen its doors on 10 July, with classic films on show ahead of new releases.
What can you expect to see filling up the multiplexes when cinemas reopen next month?
Suddenly, 'Trolls World Tour' has become the candy-coloured centre of a battle for the future of cinema.
Cineworld has announced that it is closing all of its UK cinemas.
Cineworld officially introduced cinemagoers last night to the newly expanded cinema at The O2 which includes three new VIP screening rooms and a 4DX auditorium.
The cinema chain Cineworld has withdrawn its support from BAFTA, following wins for the streaming movie Roma at this year's awards.
A special screening of the new Mamma Mia movie arranged for a fan who suffers from dementia was a huge success after being held at a cinema in Newport.
The takeover would put the combined company in a better position to take on industry leader AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc , and give it more scale to fight growing competition from Netflix Inc, Apple Inc and other digital outlets. Regal is three times larger than Cineworld by market value and the combined company would have about 9,542 screens, with 7,315 screens in the United States. Cineworld Chief Executive Mooky Greidinger brushed aside those concerns.
The ‘Blair Witch’ is back… and this time, you can feel it. It’s been 17 years since the original ‘Blair Witch Project’ appeared in cinemas, and a lot has changed. The first film was a viral sensation, leveraging creepy ‘missing persons’ flyers and rumours that this film might just be the real deal to create a truly immersive experience.
British cinema is in rude health right now. In 2015, box office revenues exceeded £1.2 billion making it the biggest year in UK film history, and it’s not just because of inflated ticket prices.
We’ve all heard nightmare tales from friends and family about an unpleasant cinema experience they’ve had. Whether it’s people talking loudly, phones going off, or worse - but it appears no one is inclined to complain at the time.
UPDATE: The UK distributors of ‘The Hateful Eight’ have revealed that a dispute over the exclusive rights to show the extended 70mm “Roadshow” presentation of Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming western is the reason the film won’t be coming to Cineworld, Curzon, and Picturehouse cinemas when it’s released this Friday. The statement on the Guardian reads: “Cineworld had made us aware that they were very unhappy that The Hateful Eight had been booked into the Odeon Leicester Square for an exclusive 70mm Ultra Panavision presentation, and specifically that they would therefore not be able to play the film at their Picturehouse Central venue. Due to the special facilities required for the unique 70mm Ultra Panavision presentation we needed the largest theatre and screen possible in the West End and the Odeon Leicester Square was the natural choice.