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Month: October 2016

Mockingbird flies full time in custard factory

Ffion Davies

| The Mockingbird goes full-time at Birmingham’s Custard Factory, with food to suit the films and bargain screenings. | Situated within Birmingham’s iconic Custard Factory, The Mockingbird Cinema and Kitchen offers a unique cinematic experience. It has had occasional screenings of cult favourites for a year but from Friday, November 18 it will launch as a full-time cinema, showing blockbusters straight from Hollywood. It will open with Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them by Harry Potter writer JK Rowling, starring Eddie Redmayne and Colin Farrell. Anyone booking to see…

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Outdoor cinema in proposed Box City development

Ffion Davies

| Cardiff Bay could soon be home to a retail and leisure development made entirely from shipping containers. | The proposed ‘Box City’ would include hotel apartments, offices, street food venues and even an outdoor cinema. The innovative quayside scheme would see around 400 shipping containers reconfigured to create a stunning environmentally-friendly four-level development. The Welsh Government has given its initial approval to lease a 0.64 acre part of the Porth Teigr site to DS Properties, the developers behind Cardiff’s Tramshed. It could open as early as next spring. Simon…

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Cinema returns at last after Christchurch earthquake

Ffion Davies,

| Hoyts Cinemas is returning to Christchurch city centre for the first time since the 2011 earthquakes destroyed their eight-screen complex in the old railway station building | The earthquake that struck Christchurch, New Zealand, in February 2011 killed 185 people, caused more than $40-billion NZ in damage, and destroyed nearly half the downtown’s building stock. The building was demolished four years ago. A computer generated image shows how a proposed new $50 million Hoyts cinema development in central Christchurch, New Zealand will look. Construction is due to start next year on the…

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