Cinestar
| CineStar CMS Cinema Management Services GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1948 |
| Seat | Lübeck , Germany |
| management | Mathew Duff, Gregory Dean, Oliver Fock ( Managing Directors ) |
| Branch | Cinema operators |
| Website | www.cinestar.de |
| As of July 23, 2020 | |
CineStar operates 52 cinemas and is the market leader in Germany with 406 screens and 91,454 seats .
Company history
The group was founded as a private company by Hilma and Albert Kieft after the Second World War and operated under the name Kieft & Kieft Filmtheater . The main building was the Lichtspiele Hope cinema in Lübeck , which opened in 1948 and was closed in 2004 after a fire.
The rise of the group began after German reunification with the takeover of numerous cinemas in the former GDR. After the first successes of the modern concept, the town hall was built in Lübeck in 1993 to become the Kiefts' first “CineStar” multiplex cinema . The town hall is traditionally the main venue for the Nordic Film Days Lübeck . The first CineStar film palace opened in Wismar in 1995 . In 1998, the largest Australian cinema operator, Greater Union, took over 50 percent of Kieft & Kieft Filmtheater GmbH through its subsidiary Amalgamated Holdings Limited (AHL) as part of a joint venture . In 2000 the "CineStar Original" was opened in the Sony Center Berlin . It specialized in films in the English original language and was also home to an IMAX - 3D cinema. Another CineStar cinema was opened in Leipzig in 2001, which quickly established itself as the venue for various festivals such as the Wave-Gotik-Treffen or the DOK Leipzig .
After taking over 30 cinemas from the Ufa Group in 2003, the company was the market leader among German cinema operators with 3,700 employees and 132,735 seats in its cinemas . Some partner cinemas under the brand name Village Cinema or with individual traditional names also belong to the CineStar Group. The Kieft & Kieft Filmtheater GmbH and the Onex Kino GmbH founded the "Neue Filmpalast GmbH" for this purpose.
The takeover of the ailing Ufa theater group, however, turned out to be a wrong decision, and Ufa's severe financial crisis also spread to the CineStar group. As a result, the previous joint venture partner Amalgamated Holdings Limited (AHL) , which had held a 50 percent stake in Kieft & Kieft Filmtheater GmbH since 1998, took over the shares of the Kieft siblings. AHL thus held 100 percent of Kieft & Kieft Filmtheater GmbH and 50 percent of Neue Filmpalast GmbH & Co. KG , the latter being responsible for the Ufa cinemas. Marlis and Heiner Kieft initially remained as managing directors alongside David Seargeant (AHL) in management. A part of the Ufa theaters was returned to the Ufa insolvency administrator .
This was followed by the name change from Kieft & Kieft Filmtheater GmbH to Greater Union Filmpalast GmbH , which thus became part of the cinema division of the Australian entertainment group AHL. It operates cinemas in Australia , Europe and the Middle East under the brand names Greater Union , Birch Carroll & Coyle and CineStar . An online cinema magazine was founded in Germany, which was initially moderated by Nova Meierhenrich for two years . In 2011 Nina Eichinger took over .
A uniform collective agreement came into effect on January 1, 2013 for employees in the CineStar cinemas in Germany. In order to move the negotiations forward, work has been stopped in several film theaters since December 2011. The employees were supported by the ver.di union .
In December 2015, the name was changed from the owner AHL to Event Hospitality & Entertainment Limited . In 2017 David Seargeant retired as Managing Director, he was succeeded by Jane Hastings.
In October 2018, the sale of the cinema chain to the British Vue Entertainment , which already owns the Cinemaxx cinemas, was announced. The Bundeskartellamt approved the sale on March 2, 2020 on the condition that five Cinestar cinemas and one Cinemaxx cinema were sold to competitors within six months in order to prevent a monopoly in the six cities. The cities of Augsburg, Bremen, Gütersloh, Magdeburg, Remscheid and Mülheim an der Ruhr are affected.
On January 1, 2020, the Cinestar Original in the Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin and with it the Cinestar IMAX closed. The reason given was unprofitable due to rent increases and a lack of visitors.
Cinema locations
| city | movie theater | Halls | Seats | including wheelchair spaces |
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| augsburg | CineStar Augsburg | 9 | 1,595 | |
| Bamberg | CineStar - The Film Palace | 8th | 1,539 | 8th |
| Berlin - Alexanderplatz / Mitte | CineStar - CUBIX Filmpalast | 9 | 2,451 | 14th |
| Berlin - Hellersdorf | CineStar - The Film Palace | 7th | 1,462 | 8th |
| Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg | Cinema in the KulturBrauerei | 8th | 1,583 | 8th |
| Berlin Tegel | CineStar - The Film Palace | 9 | 2,318 | 11 |
| Berlin - Treptow | CineStar - The Film Palace | 9 | 2,409 | 18th |
| Bonn | Star plays of light | 3 | 520 | - |
| Bremen | CineStar Crystal Palace | 11 | 3,339 | - |
| Chemnitz | CineStar - The Film Palace at the Red Tower | 11 | 2,302 | 22nd |
| Crimmitschau | CineStar - The Film Palace | 3 | 441 | - |
| Dortmund | CineStar - The Film Palace | 14th | 3,691 | 16 |
| Dusseldorf | CineStar - The Film Palace | 9 | 2,534 | - |
| Emden | CineStar - The Film Palace | 6th | 923 | 7th |
| Erfurt | CineStar - The Film Palace | 8th | 2.158 | 8th |
| gain | CineStar - The Film Palace | 10 | 1,976 | 10 |
| Frankfurt (Oder) | CineStar - The Film Palace | 6th | 1,392 | 11 |
| Frankfurt am Main | CineStar - The Film Palace | 8th | 1.918 | 24 |
| Frankfurt am Main | CineStar Metropolis | 12 | 3,498 | 19th |
| Fulda | CineStar - The Film Palace | 8th | 1,683 | 18th |
| Garbsen | CineStar - The Film Palace | 9 | 2,284 | 10 |
| Greifswald | CineStar - The Film Palace | 6th | 944 | 8th |
| Hagen | CineStar - The Film Palace | 8th | 2,107 | 18th |
| Ingolstadt | CineStar - The Film Palace | 10 | 1,749 | 11 |
| Jena | CineStar - The Film Palace | 8th | 1,434 | 9 |
| Karlsruhe | Partner cinema Filmpalast at the ZKM | 12 | 3,532 | 24 |
| Constancy | Partner cinema CineStar - Der Filmpalast | 9 | 1,439 | 10 |
| Leipzig | CineStar - The Film Palace | 8th | 2,420 | 20th |
| Lübeck | CineStar - Filmpalast Stadthalle | 7th | 1,426 | - |
| Lübeck | Movie house | 3 | 375 | - |
| Ludwigshafen | CineStar - The Film Palace | 11 | 2,027 | 20th |
| Magdeburg | CineStar - The Film Palace | 9 | 2,221 | 22nd |
| Mainz | CineStar - The Film Palace | 10 | 2,720 | 25th |
| Neubrandenburg | CineStar - The Film Palace | 8th | 1,734 | - |
| Neumunster | CineStar Neumünster | 7th | 1,191 | |
| Oberhausen | CineStar - The Film Palace | 9 | 2,529 | - |
| Remscheid | CineStar Remscheid | 6th | 1,094 | |
| Rostock | CineStar - The Film Palace | 7th | 1,864 | - |
| Rostock | CineStar Capitol Filmpalast | 4th | 1,089 | 21st |
| Saarbrücken | CineStar - The Film Palace | 11 | 2,516 | 12 |
| Wins | CineStar - The Film Palace | 9 | 1836 | 6th |
| Stade | CineStar - The Film Palace | 5 | 956 | 4th |
| Stralsund | CineStar - The Film Palace | 6th | 1,173 | 6th |
| Villingen-Schwenningen | CineStar - The Film Palace | 7th | 1,658 | 7th |
| Goods (Müritz) | CineStar - The Film Palace | 3 | 466 | 2 |
| Weimar | CineStar in the atrium | 2 | 386 | |
| Weimar | CineStar - The Film Palace | 6th | 984 | 6th |
| Wildau | CineStar - The Film Palace | 10 | 2,182 | 9 |
| Wismar | CineStar - The Film Palace | 4th | 652 | - |
| Wolfenbüttel | CineStar - The Film Palace | 6th | 1.104 | 4th |
| All in all: | 50 locations | 388 halls | 87,824 seats | 456 wheelchair spaces |
As of August 21, 2020
CineStar abroad
Until 2002 there were also CineStar cinemas in Austria, after which the company withdrew from the Austrian market. The buildings were taken over by Cineplexx. In 2001 the CineStar in Austria opened the second cinema in Vienna. In Switzerland there is a CineStar cinema in Lugano . There are also 13 cinemas in the Czech Republic , including the country's largest cinema in the Smíchov district of Prague . CineStar also operates cinemas in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.cinestar.de/impressum
- ↑ Kieft & Kieft buys the Ufa chain. In: Spiegel Online. February 17, 2003, accessed July 23, 2020 .
- ↑ The German market leader: - WELT. In: THE WORLD. Retrieved October 5, 2016 .
- ↑ A cinema queen resigns. In: www.mediabiz.de. December 17, 2010, accessed July 23, 2020 .
- ↑ kinonetzwerk.verdi.de : collective agreements in the cinema industry
- ↑ Mike Fiebig: Cinestar employees in Hagen continue on strike. In: DerWesten.de. November 14, 2012, accessed July 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Anja Schröder: Four days strike at the box office in Cinestar Dortmund - performances canceled. In: DerWesten.de. January 9, 2012, accessed July 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Anja Schröder: First "receipts" for a long strike in the Cinestar Dortmund. In: DerWesten.de. May 29, 2012, accessed July 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Cinema chains: Cinemaxx owner buys Cinestar In: tagesschau.de , October 22, 2018, accessed on October 22, 2018.
- ↑ Marc Mensch: Federal Cartel Office gives the green light for CineStar takeover - subject to conditions. In: Blickpunkt: Film. March 2, 2020, accessed March 2, 2020 .
- ↑ CineStar in the Sony Center closes. In: rbb24.de. November 15, 2019, accessed January 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Kino am Wienerberg will reopen on December 12th. In: The Standard. November 12, 2002, accessed July 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Cinestar opens second cinema in Austria. In: Blickpunkt: Film. June 1, 2001, accessed July 23, 2020 .
- ^ CineStar Praha - Anděl. In: Prague.eu The Official Tourist Website for Prague. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .