{"id":344196,"date":"2025-08-14T15:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/344196\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T15:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:35:19","slug":"worlds-tallest-cinema-in-glasgows-could-close-any-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/344196\/","title":{"rendered":"World’s tallest cinema in Glasgow’s could ‘close any day’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n A member of the team, who\u00a0wished to remain anonymous, told The Glasgow Times\u00a0it “will definitely be closing.”\n<\/p>\n

\n They said: “It was\u00a0shocking, but we always knew that Cineworld was having issues.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I mean, we had had so many warnings that we were getting shut down, multiple times\u00a0a year,\u00a0we were told we were getting shut down.\n<\/p>\n

\n “But when we got that e-mail through, it\u00a0was the first one that was so separate from any other issue.\n<\/p>\n

\n “So we knew pretty much the minute we got this e-mail that we were like, yeah, we’re done for.”\n<\/p>\n

\n We\u00a0reported last<\/a> month\u00a0that the world’s tallest cinema in Glasgow\u00a0was at risk of closure after\u00a0an email was sent to staff.\n<\/p>\n

\n World’s tallest cinema in Glasgow’s staff speak out amid closure fears (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n

\n READ MORE:\u00a0World’s tallest cinema in Glasgow could be ‘closed down’\u00a0<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n READ MORE:\u00a0Petition launched to save world’s tallest cinema in Glasgow\u00a0<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n The blow comes\u00a0despite campaigner Andrew Hamilton launching a\u00a0petition last month, after learning that the iconic cinema\u2014which stands at 200 feet tall\u2014was under threat.\n<\/p>\n

\n Unfortunately for staff and fans of the establishment, it appears it will be shutting its doors.\n<\/p>\n

\n Despite the shock, the staff said that “the managers\u00a0were so accommodating.”\n<\/p>\n

\n One manager “was phoning everyone who wasn’t in that day, and I thought that was really quite sweet.”\n<\/p>\n

\n They continued: “As soon as they know things they want to tell us.\n<\/p>\n

\n “It hurts me to even talk about them, people with kids and people who’ve been there since it opened, and I really genuinely worry for them.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I know there’s a lot of talk right now about what’s going to happen afterwards, whether there’ll be redundancy\u00a0pay or if we’re going to get more time.”\n<\/p>\n

\n READ MORE:\u00a0The story of Cineworld in Glasgow, the world’s tallest cinema\u00a0<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n And the staff member said that\u00a0the cinema, which boasts 18 screens, is “definitely going to close.”\n<\/p>\n

\n The opinion was that “if they want the building back, they’re going to take it back”.\n<\/p>\n

\n They said: “We do know for a fact now it is shutting, but we don’t know at all when we’ve been told many times we don’t have an exact date, so really it could be any day now.”\n<\/p>\n

\n They said that the\u00a0uncertainty is “a very emotional thing for everybody in the building.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Everyone’s a bit down the dumps.”\n<\/p>\n

\n They say that many of the staff are very close friends and have “some great connections” in the building, and admitted that “it’s going to be hard.”\n<\/p>\n

\n There’s a hopeful resilience among the staff, they say, though: “We’re getting through it and everyone’s really positive. We’re all going to end up okay at the end of it.\n<\/p>\n

\n “We really haven’t been told much, and neither have the managers; there’s a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff going on, I’m sure.”\n<\/p>\n

\n Omniplex, which bought the building in May, refused to comment on the situation.\n<\/p>\n

\n Cineworld were contacted repeatedly for a comment but did not respond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A member of the team, who\u00a0wished to remain anonymous, told The Glasgow Times\u00a0it “will definitely be closing.” They…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-344196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115027858215122731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}