UGC (cinema operator)

UGC S.A.
FormerlyUnion Générale Cinématographique (1946–1988)
Company typeSociété anonyme
(with board of directors)
IndustryEntertainment
PredecessorContinental Films
Founded1946; 78 years ago (1946)
Headquarters
Neuilly-sur-Seine
,
France
Number of locations
57
Area served
France, Belgium
Key people
Brigitte Maccioni (CEO)
Number of employees
1520
SubsidiariesUGC Ciné Cité
UGC Images
UGC Distribution
UGC Fiction
Websitewww.ugc.fr
www.ugc.be

UGC is a cinema operator in France and Belgium, operating 57 cinemas as of 2022. It is also a major film production and distribution company.

France & Belgium

UGC was originally an exclusively French operator, privatized in 1971, who merged with several regional cinema companies running 22 cinemas.[1] The name originally stood for Union Générale Cinématographique, but today only the initials are used. The company is focused on the business side of the film business and French-dubbed versions, showing little interest in the screening of artistic cinema, on the contrary to Pathé and Gaumont cinemas, except in some UGC Paris theatres where the programming is very diversified and includes both subtitled and dubbed versions. Out of Paris, in some cities like Nantes, Bordeaux or Lyon, a part of this diversified programming does exist, but mostly UGC cinemas are like Pathé and Gaumont cinemas. Its competitors include Pathé Cinémas, Cinéville, CGR and Kinepolis Group.

In 2016, Kinepolis Group had sold the four Belgian Utopolis cinemas it had happened to acquire when it had taken over Utopia Group to UGC.[2] UGC had already owned three Belgian cinemas (one in Antwerp and two in Brussels) and now more than doubled that number, adding one cinema each in Aarschot, Lommel, Mechelen and Turnhout.

As of January 2022, UGC had:

Former operations

Italy and Spain

In Italy there were 4 UGC multiplexes : Porta di Roma and Parco Leonardo in Rome and Fiumicino, 45 ° N in Moncalieri in the urban area of Turin (located exactly on the 45th parallel north, from which it takes its name) and Romagna in Savignano sul Rubicone, close to Cesena and Rimini. The 4 multiplexes consisted of 66 screens and 15,000 total seats.

In Spain UGC had 5 multiplexes: three in Madrid and one each in Valladolid and Cadiz.

Odeon and UCI Cinema Group purchased in 2011 the UGC Cinemas in Italy which are integrated in UCI Cinemas Italy and in Spain which were integrated in the local chain of cinemas Cinesa.[3]

UK and Ireland

UGC was formerly also a leading UK cinema owner following the purchase of Richard Branson's Virgin Cinema Group, which it purchased in October 1999.[4] In December 2004, the business was sold to Blackstone Group and joined with Cine-UK to trade as Cineworld.[5] UGC's chain in the UK and Ireland consisted of:

  • UK: 41 cinemas, 391 screens;
  • Ireland: 1 cinema, 17 screens.

In July 2005, Cineworld began to phase out the UGC brand, replacing it with its own Cineworld logo. This rebranding was completed in September 2005. Cineworld has retained certain aspects of the UGC offer, including the Unlimited season ticket, originally introduced by Virgin, and the free magazine of the same name.

See also

References

  1. ^ "L'histoire du groupe". ugc.fr. Archived from the original on 25 November 2008.
  2. ^ "Kinepolis sells Belgian Utopolis cinemas to UGC | Kinepolis Group". corporate.kinepolis.com. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  3. ^ "European cinema chain acquires nine multiplexes with a total of 92 screens". screendaily.com. 5 May 2011.
  4. ^ "UGC buys film arm of Virgin". The Irish Times. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  5. ^ "Cineworld Acquires UGC's Operations in the UK and Ireland". www.blackstone.com. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
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