View full details on this film... View full details on this film... John Wick: Chapter 2 Advertisement : content continues below Advance Booking & General Enquiries: 017687 72195 Reservation of seats in advance is rarely necessary, but should you wish to reserve specific seats, or to book for a large party, please call the above number. The cinema is manned between 18:00 & 22:00 every evening and at other times, leave your number and we will return your call. Find us on Facebook (Alhambra Cinema) and Twitter (@keswickAlhambra) Situated on St Johns Street, the Alhambra cinema offers first class cinema entertainment in traditional surroundings. Open seven days a week, the cinema prides itself on its tasteful decor, comfortable environment and impeccable customer service. The cinema has Dolby Digital Sound, seats 246 people, and provides wheelchair access. An extensive range of confectionery and refreshments are available to compliment your visit.
While we have retained traditional 35mm film projection capability to screen classic films only available in that medium, we now also offer full digital cinema with a state of the art Barco Digital Projector and Dolby Processor which provides an incredibly sharp, bright picture with magnificent colour rendition and 5.1 digital sound. The quality of the performance has to be seen & heard to be believed! Our current programme is already mailed to to several hundred people every week and if you would like to be added to this mailing list please enter your email details in the box provided on the web page. As well as operating up-to-date programming, the cinema also plays host to Keswick Film Club every Sunday evening from September to March. The film club was formed in December 1999, and produced its first short season of 10 films in the period February-April 1999. Based at the Alhambra Cinema, the Club is run by a group of enthusiasts who try to bring the people of Keswick and the surrounding area the best of British and World cinema: high quality, thought-provoking films which are often not given a screening in the local cinemas.
More information can be found here. The Alhambra held it’s Centenary Celebrations in February 2014 in conjunction with the Annual Film Festival held by the Keswick Film Club, when the ten best films for the last century were screened free of charge. A film was commissioned to mark the occasion, recording the memories of many past customers and staff of the cinema. We have nearly 100 trip adviser comments from visitors, all of them very positive indeed; just a few of the more recent ones are show below; “A magical gem - something special” The private owner of The Alhambra Cinema should be immensely proud of this unique cinema situated in the heart of Keswick offering really interesting films in a beautiful building. A fantastic experience for all ages and a real asset to Keswick. “Great old fashioned cinema just like the one I used to visit in my childhood” On rainy day in Keswick went to see the 5.30pm showing of 'What we did on our holidays' which is to be recommended.
Sat on the balcony and helped ourselves to courtesy coffees with fesh milk from the fridge which was a nice touch. Real feel of nostalgia visiting places like this. Came across this cinema by chance whilst staying in Keswick. Went to see a movie called The Lunchbox which was a hindi movie, it was a brilliant movie and the cinema had an old fashioned charm to it. Its a real local cinema with a sense of community, we were even offered free Coffee to take in with us. “Holiday visit to the Alhambra” My husband, son and I visited the Alhambra in August and saw Guardians of the Galaxy. It was our first visit to the cinema and it was such a lovely experience for all of us. The cinema itself was lovely, the film was good and the way that everyone was made welcome was really lovely. On top of that, it was so nice to have a holiday experience where you didn’t feel you were being ripped off.The business of cinema, like hotels or theatres is high risk with usually high start-up costs, high fixed costs (overheads) and tiny margins.
A film exhibitor’s success is dependent almost entirely on the artistic flair and talent of film producers. If there are no good films around (as is often the case in the Summer for example) people simply won’t go to the cinema no matter how comfortable the seating or brilliant the sound system. The costs of building a cinema consist of four main elements:Site acquisition and preparation costsConstruction costsEquipment and fit out costsProfessional fees The amount of initial investment capital required for a cinema is hugely variable dependent on where it is located, whether it is a new build or refurbishment, size, quality and nature of services to be provided as well as what is required in terms of compliance with local planning regulations. Conversion can often be more expensive than new build, especially if it is the conversion of an old cinema where the screens have to be reconfigured for modern audiences or its location, squashed between shops and offices in a pedestrian precinct, requires special equipment for the builders to gain access.
Trying to ‘rescue’ and bring back into use an old cinema building can be very costly but there are numerous examples of this being done successfully such as the Odyssey Cinema in St Albans. Distributor release patterns and smaller audiences generally mean that several smaller auditoria are required rather than one big one to make the thing work. Multiplex operators in the UK reduced their capital start-up costs in the 1980s and 1990s by building multiple screens, out of town in a low cost shell with a basic minimum standard of fit out and limited ancillary trading areas. More recently, in the face of tighter planning controls on green field sites, and pressures to regenerate urban areas there is a move back onto the high street. The majority of cinema chains are also differentiating their offer with upgraded facilities and more diverse programming as exemplified by the range of luxury multiplexes now open in Britain’s major city centres. Multiplexes increasingly represent direct competition to the smaller independent cinema and, like the ‘corner shop’ independents will have to work doubly hard to keep their customers.
Site acquisition and preparation costs vary widely according to particular circumstances. Of the other costs, approximately 75% is accounted for by the construction of the building. The remaining 25% is split into broadly equal amounts for fit out and for professional fees. The effect of VAT should of course be taken into consideration when project cash flows are being planned. The actual cost of creating a new cinema depends on the location and the configuration of the building. For example a four-screen cinema on a town centre site will normally be substantially more expensive to build than a two-screen facility alongside a leisure centre built on a green field or brown field site. As a broad guide, it is possible to build a 2-screen cinema, seating 400 people in total, for as little as £1.5 million but a more typical cost for a good quality new build would be around twice that amount. Digital cinemas will not necessarily be less expensive to build. Anyone working within the constraints of an existing building, aiming to provide a high quality experience by, for example, offering bars and restaurants as well as having to buy more sophisticated projection equipment in order to offer the full range of film product available, are likely to incur higher than average fit out costs.