Vue West End
3 Cranbourne Street,
Leicester Square,
London,
WC2H 7AL
3 Cranbourne Street,
Leicester Square,
London,
WC2H 7AL
14 people
favorited this theater
Showing 126 - 134 of 134 comments
Any body have more information or photos inside and out of this theater when it was a single hard ticket house?
By the time I saw it in the mid 70’s it was already a quad I believe.
The Warner Theatre was still a single screen 2,500 seater ‘Home to Warner Brothers’ when I took this photograph in July 1964:
View link
Never managed to visit the original Warner as a single screen but as a twin, triplex and even fiveplex it was much better than as this nineplex which is almost a grind house in comparison. Before the refit in the mid 90s the ads in Time Out were fullpage black and white with short synopses of the films and 4 out of 5 screens were worth the trip to the West End…Saw Driving Miss Daisy, Bonfire of the Vanities, The Grifters here
As a nineplex there are only 2 really great screens and the rest are good for filler and second run rather than first run…the crowds are also pretty unpleasant…Over the years have made it through The Fugitive, My Best Friend’s Wedding, The Fifth Element, Gilbert Grape, Scream, Don Juan De Marco, Big Night, Gingerbread Man, True Romance and plenty more and more recently exclusive first runs of The Aviator and Brokeback Mountain but hate paying 12.50 pounds essentially 20 dollars for a mediocre multiplex experience
OOOoops, here is the link I omitted to add above:
View link
A close-up view taken in January 2006 of the recently installed Vue signage.
current exterior photo at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/howardbhaas/69196525/
From Summer 2004 all Warner Village Cinemas have been renamed VUE, the Warner West End is now VUE Cinemas, Leicester Square.
Its to bad Warner Bros didn’t include one large screen in the complex.I guess the Odeon is the last screen in the West End with first class showmanship.London at least has the Odeon and a few other major screens where New York has not one major screen left on Broadway.brucec
A bunch of shoeboxes now. I remember seeing THE TOWERING INFERNO there in the 1970s and stuff like BATMAN and NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN etc, those days it was REAL theatre, and I remember portraits of hollywood’s golden era stars as we walked throug a long corridor to their flagship screen in those days.