Coronavirus: Cineworld to cut 45,000 staff as it brings curtain down on UK, US cinemas

The firm, which had already announced that it was seeking new funding to help it ride out the pandemic, is understood to be planning an incentive scheme to get staff back at reopening.Cineworld was also yet to give information on the implications for membership customers.

health and safety guidelines in our theatres and working constructively with regulators and industry bodies to restore public confidence in our industry. "We are especially grateful for and proud of the hard work our employees put in to adapt our theatres to the new protocols and cannot underscore enough how difficult this decision was.

"Cineworld will continue to monitor the situation closely and will communicate any future plans to resume operations in these markets at the appropriate time, when key markets have more concrete guidance on their reopening status and, in turn, studios are able to bring their pipeline of major releases back to the big screen."

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