Reel Cinema
15 St. Catherine's Road,
Grantham,
NG31 6TP
15 St. Catherine's Road,
Grantham,
NG31 6TP
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Announced 10 Jun 2019: Grantham Savoy will open its doors, off St Catherine’s Road, on Friday, July 19. An invitation-only launch event will be held the day before. Announced 5 Jul 2019: Walt Disney’s The Lion King will top the bill for the opening line-up at its new town centre multiplex. Tickets will be on sale from Monday (July 8) for the grand opening on July 19. Other titles will include Pixar’s Toy Story 4 along with Marvel’s ‘Spiderman – Far From Home’ and supernatural horror ‘Annabelle Comes Home.’ Adult tickets will cost £7.60 or £8.60 for 3D viewings. A child/concession/student ticket will cost £6.10 and £7.10 for 3D. A family ticket (two children, two adults) will be £24.40 or 3D £28.40.
Announced 5 Mar 2019: the new building was handed over to Savoy Cinemas for the fitting-out work to begin. 5 screens, 650 seats are planned.
Demolition was completed this morning (21st June).
An album of images has been created and can be seen here:– 21st CENTURY CINEMA IN GRANTHAM
After several weeks of stripping out and asbestos removal, work commenced today – 12th June 2018 – on demolishing the cinema, starting with screen 2.
REEL DEMOLITION 1
REEL DEMOLITION 2
REEL DEMOLITION 3
The Reel was stripped out on the 27th April, and will be demolished within weeks – starting 7th May 2018. It had been hoped to screen “E.T.-The Extra Terrestrial” on the last night but sadly there was insufficient time to arrange.
A few photographs taken on the morning after closure here:–
SCREEN 1
SCREEN 1
PROJECTION ROOM – SCREEN 2
SCREEN 2
SCREEN 2
The cinema quietly closed on Thursday 26 April 2018 with “Rampage” in Screen 1 and “Truth or Dare” in Screen 2. Even the Reel website contained no mention of closure in the final weeks and no public ceremony or event was held on the final day. For the first time in 35 years Grantham is without a first-run cinema.
Now scheduled to close 26th April 2018
Savoy Cinemas (Nottingham) announced as operator of the new complex – with opening slipped to “Early 2019”.
Still planned to close the existing Reel twin cinema in May 2018 leaving the town without films for over half a year.
Still no announcement of the operator, but a start on the site next door to the existing cinema (which will close in 2018) was made in November 2017.
NEW CINEMA SITE
In July 2017, a start to the project still awaited, a new set of plans emerged which does not cover the site of the existing cinema (obove), and which is planned to be closed and demolished in May 2018.
The new cinema will open at the end of 2018 (but don’t hold your breath) and is reduced to five screens seating, according to the plans, 1) 184; 2) 164; 3) 122; 4) 141; 5)103 a total of 714 seats. there will also be two restaurants and some office space.
The operator has not been announced.
In 2015 it was announced that the Reel Cinema is to be expanded by the addition of 4 screens (to the west of the existing two cinemas), 3 restaurants and some office space. The new screens will accommodate 154, 217, 162 & 173 whilst the two existing screens will be comprehensively refurbished and reduced to 217 and 100 seats within the current spaces. The whole block will be given a unified new facade. A start on the project has been delayed but is currently scheduled to begin later this year. Photos from July 2015:–
REEL EXTERIOR SCREEN 2
REEL SCREEN 1 TO FRONT
REEL SCREEN 1 TO REAR
REEL SCREEN 2 TO FRONT