A completely different VUE

摘要

Vue has 59 multiplexes across the UK and Ireland, with over 570 screens. The new Vue cinema at Thurrock Lakeside, one of the largest shopping centres in Europe, just outside the eastern boundary of Greater London, opened on 15th June, with 'The Fantastic Four; Rise of the Silver Surfer', and I went to have a look at the cinema and talk with the staff just a fortnight later, when all the opening razmataz had finished and the new nine-screen multiplex was fully operational. The shopping centre originally opened in 1990, but has recently undergone major refurbishment at a cost of f 30 million, and there are now over 234 shops and department stores, 33 cafes and restaurants and a 26-acre lake, all of which attracts around 500,000 visitors per week.