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‘We don’t need another bar’: St Andrews film fans take on Tiger Woods and Justin Timberlake

Celebrity plan to turn a much-loved retro cinema into a sports bar faces stiff opposition from thousands of angry movie goers

Open every day of the week and boasting three screens, the category B listed building has showed blockbusters and independent films, as well as plays, community events and festivals, for the best part of a century. Plans from Woods and Timberlake, who have already teamed up to launch a dining and entertainment brand, T-Squared Social, in New York City’s Manhattan, outline their aim to convert it into a gastropub with televised sports and golf simulators, keeping one screen for new cinema releases. “It fills me with such despair to see yet another venue in Scotland where culture is public and accessible being threatened with closure, especially in a small place with a thriving student population,” said writer and director Cat Macleod, who graduated in English and film from St Andrews University in 2011.

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