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Exactly and that's why I am glad Mooky is Cine CEO and not many on here :-)

Luvs ya both Rammy and Sobin.
I seem to keep forgetting my wallet when I meet my special friend at cinema.
She seems happy to oblige so far.

Got my first unlimited screening this coming Friday for A Quiet Place 2 so be interesting to see numbers for that (I don't expect to be able to count them all).
I often go during week when things are quieter and pick film choices at points avoiding biggest crowds (the massive Marvel/DC type stuff being the exception).
I may look to do some bigger film initial release dates and some weekend visits to get an idea on the busy times numbers.

Cheers LPD.

Open £6
Close 6p
Does closest win the jar of sweeties?

Cheers Bonkers, Yes I remember that and have more than few times had ludicrous accusations.
Hey ho.

Good day today, great night tonight!
Just home from latest visit to local Cineworld.
Watched The Conjuring tonight and it was on one of the main larger screens.
Was somewhat surprised very pleasantly at numbers there.
I counted it at 46 of us for this one, damn good I think for a Tuesday night and not one of the biggest movies.
Good mix again and plenty young folks (remember the ones that some derampers have tried to say don't go to cinemas and all have moved to streaming only viewing ;-)

Ever more confident for the longer term here.
It's very early (only one week open in UK), but I think I am already seeing signs of pent up need to get out and do something/anything (the cinemas getting some of this action).

One of only 3 days since March we have seen 16m+ volume.

£1:8300001 I think.

Yay heard from the full team today :-)
Yeah it's casino punt now Amigo.

Cbx still interests me a bit sammy.
If only I had limitless pots of money for all these shares.
Took the bit I had in Aviva and BAT out yesterday and back into Cineworld.
View being more potential upside short-term and possibly then put back to them for next set of dividends (hopefully with no major up in their SP in-between).
Or depending how goes keep in the movies a while longer.

Past halfway feels good.
Time for you to dip into Amigo again sammy? ;-)

Takeover and much other stuff is opinions and not a solid base for investment in itself.
My point on numbers is it is FACT , undisputable FACT .

Sammy well if we assume similar mix from previous years then it makes no difference ;-)
Biscuit club weekly night out and the numbers could be skewed somewhat.

Welcome back RS2002.
I was solely going on Cineworld own financials and keeping it relatively simple.
Made assumptions that the business model would not dramatically change. i.e. attendance would result in similar levels of concessions sales per head and advertising revenues similar.
The major part is attendance numbers c. 58% revenue with their concessions a further 28.4%
Unlimited card holders are useful guaranteed steady income, but is a minor part still for the business.

Spot on MOOla, that's what many seem to have missed.
While there is now extra costs with additional debt this will partly be offset with the cost savings exercises done during covid lockdowns and combined with no dividends the company can/should/will start to significantly reduce debt burden and quickly.

Much has been debated on return of cinema, being profitable and attendances etc.

So last night I saw my 4th film so far since local Cineworld re-opened.
Monday night so would expect quiet and for Nomadland which I went to see it was with 5 of us at the 8pm viewing.
Other movies sounded busier and car parking suggested reasonable numbers were around (nothing conclusive to confirm).
So far it's been:
c. 40 at Kong (Wednesday evening)
22 at Mortal Kombat (Thursday evening)
26 - 30 Spiral (Friday evening)
5 Nomadland (Monday evening)
Age over 4 during week movies c.24!!!

So this got me thinking and did a bit looking at Cineworld financials.

In 2019 and 2018 they were profitable and had what was noted as strong attendances producing over $4bn in both cases.
This was achieved by 308.3m attendances in 2018
And 275m attendances in 2019

What this means in reality:
c. 787 sites. c. 9500 screens c. 12 screens per site (as it happens that's number screens at my local)

275m/308.4m = 349,428 / 391,868 annual per site
= 28,947/ 32,463 annual per screen
* = 6720/7536 per site weekly
= 557/624 per screen weekly

I checked from today to Monday total screenings at my local and got 282 screenings over the 12 screens for the week. Note this is weighted to weekend with 102 screenings over Saturday/Sunday. That is clearly to accommodate the busy period with people's free time, big movies, maximising profits. Often on these days in particular c. 40% of screenings will be with THE major movie of that week and if two big movies then substantial allocation to second movie also. Others getting 1 to 3 screenings.
So applying my 282 screenings example taken as typical for 12 screen average site.

From above:
* 6720/7536 site weekly /282 screenings
= 24/27 people per screening average to achieve 2019/2018 type figures.

Past experience shows me that much/most of during week daytime and many evening screenings numbers are very low.
However get to Friday evening - Saturday and Sunday and anytime we have a Fast Furious, Marvel, DC, Top Gun type release we see multiple 100-200people screenings per day.

It's very much about these big big movies, the rest is filler and opportunity to sell concessions and build brand loyalty.

I shall probably be 2 - 4 X per week cinema going again and shall for a time try tracking the numbers.
Early indications being we are on target to return to pre covid profitable levels.

Ah.....but who are you feeling that is warm and fuzzy ;-)

Any luck tomorrow will see us halfway there to that £1:83 ;-)
Hope you are great too Robin :-)

Is today the first for a while we have basically traded in c.1p range pretty much all day!?
Gradual creep to ever more certainty and ever less unknowns/negative news hopefully.

International travel is probably still my main/only area of concern.

Tried to get it up to 90p, managed 89.99 with further buy back in.
:-)

An amount our very competent CEO is happy with.
That's enough for me :-)

Spot on again Crumpets.
No idea why some think a few days or first week or so box office for Cine is going to suddenly give the SP a full recovery.
Key points as you state.
Time all takes time.

A during the week daytime screening of a kids film that is some way down even the current releases of what someone would go to see.
It's no huge surprise to me as a regular cinema goer.
Pre pandemic would have had many similar such instances so gives me NO concern whatsoever.