UK Cinema Association CEO Phil Clapp was in bullish form about the health of the UK’s exhibition sector at the start of the UKCA’s 2020 annual conference, titled “Audiences – growing the big screen experience.”
“There is a recognition that the industry as a whole is enjoying a period of considerable success. The last two years have seen the strongest admissions in the last 50 years,” Clapp said at the event, which runs March 3-4.
He said that in 2019, 30 new cinema sites opened in the UK, adding just over 120 new screens. By the end of 2019, the UK had 4564 screens, up from 4399 in 2018.