Harry Potter and The Dark Knight among 450 films to be re-released when UK cinemas reopen
Twilight, The Hunger Games, Back to the Future and the Fast and Furious franchise will also be returning to screens
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Your support makes all the difference.A spate of popular films will be re-released as cinemas prepare to re-open across the UK after being closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Approximately 450 films, including the Harry Potter franchise, the Dark Knight trilogy and Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, will be coming to UK screens in the near future.
The titles were chosen by the Film Distributor’s Association, the UK’s leading distributors, and published in a collection called Relaunching Cinema: Content for Recovery.
In England, Vue cinemas are scheduled to reopen from 4 July, and Cineworld from 10 July. Odeon and Showcase have both stated they plan to reopen in “early July”.
While there are a couple of big releases on the horizon – Disney’s live-action Mulan remake is out on 24 July, and Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi blockbuster Tenet is scheduled for 31 July – cinemas are relying on the appeal of re-releases to see them through the opening weeks.
Many of these will be franchise films. As well as Harry Potter, the Back to the Future, Matrix, Hunger Games, Twilight and Fast and Furious franchises will be made available to watch in cinemas.
Recent acclaimed films such as the Oscar-winning Parasite, 1917 and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood will also be gracing the nation’s screens, alongside classics like Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia and His Girl Friday.
Here’s a list of some of the other films that will be making their way back to cinemas:
81⁄2
Bicycle Thieves
Breakfast At Tiffany’s
Singin’ In The Rain
Some Like It Hot
The Third Man
Bohemian Rhapsody
Gravity
La La Land
The Philadelphia Story
Roman Holiday
Aquaman
Bad Boys For Life
Crazy Rich Asians
Do The Right Thing
The latest Jumanji films
Moonlight
28 Days Later
Bend It Like Beckham
Dunkirk
The Italian Job
Four Weddings And A Funeral
Paddington
Rocketman
Apollo 13
The Conjuring series
Mad Max: Fury Road
Anchorman
Bridesmaids
The Hangover trilogy
Knives Out
Jojo Rabbit
Despicable Me
Peter Rabbit
The Princess Bride
Pan’s Labyrinth
Parasite
Onward
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