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Vue CEO Tim Richards on Continued Strike Recovery, Getting Back Into Production and Wanting to Work With Streamers: ‘Emilia Pérez’ ‘Deserved to Be on a Big Screen’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Vue CEO Tim Richards discusses cinema's post-strike recovery, premium experience growth and why 2026-27 will see a theatrical resurgence.
While acknowledging that the U.K. box office remained flat in 2024 compared to 2023, Richards pointed to lingering effects from the Hollywood strikes as the primary culprit rather than any fundamental shift in audience behavior. Vue is expanding its luxury offerings, with plans to launch the company’s own Premium Large Format (PLF) screens while maintaining existing partnerships with Imax and Dolby. Richards also expressed optimism about improved relationships between exhibitors and studios post-pandemic while voicing hope that streaming services would embrace theatrical distribution more broadly, specifically mentioning Netflix.
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