Cineworld Cinema - The O2 Greenwich
The O2, Peninsula Square,
London,
SE10 0AX
The O2, Peninsula Square,
London,
SE10 0AX
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Visited today to see Blue Beetle in the super screen. Have to say I enjoyed the movie and the quality of the presentation. Picture bright and clear on the large screen. Though they were only using 1 or the 2 projectors in the booth. I’d had thought on a screen that size 2 would be better. The Dolby Atmos sound sounded really good. I’ve read a lot of negatives about it at the O2, but it was really effective in this film and sound movement was clear and I was sat in the balcony. They do need to work on the signage around the cinema as the way I to the balcony wasn’t clear. I also think Cineworld needs to start installing more luxuries seats.
Superscreen: 853 Screen 12: 299 Screen 13: 151 Screen 14: 154 Screen 15: 195 Screen 16: 444 Screen 17: 61 (VIP) Screen 18: 62 (VIP) Screen 19: 54 (VIP)
how is cineworld compared to odeon?
Screen 12 provided similarly strong picture and sound to screen 16, and also suffers from a red glow on the screen from the stair lighting.
Zappomatic: Thanks for the photos. How is the picture and sound quality in Screen 12?
Added a photo of screen 12, which is part of the expansion. Surrounds are by QSC.
According to a press release titled “Christie RealLaser Helps Cineworld Eastbourne Become Europe’s First All-RGB Laser Cineplex,” the Superscreen has been upgraded to Christie RGB laser projection.
Thank you Zappomatic. Too bad there are some rough edges that you mention, and Atmos really should have been specified.
Picture quality was very good however the red LEDs on the stair edges unfortunately cast a glow at two points on the screen. Seating is steeply rake and the ceiling sloped. I found row H provided a good viewing position. Sound is not Atmos – I would describe it as clear and competent but perhaps lacking impact for such a large and immersive screen. It’s a shame Atmos wasn’t installed in here as an alternative to the flawed acoustics of the Superscreen
I assume Screen 16 is the one marked Screen 8 on the planning application, as that is the largest of the new auditoria.
The screen width for that auditorium, measured off plans, is ~18m (~60ft.) Seating distance to screen width ratio varies from, somewhat roughly, 0.35 to 1.35x (first to last rows.)
So, it sounds like it could provide a good experience.
Zappomatic: How did you find the picture/sound? I expect laser projection will have been installed, but presumably, not Atmos?
Screen 16 is an impressively large wall to wall scope screen. The 4DX is flat. I am yet to try the other new screens.
The original 11 screens of the 2007 build all had Scope screens.
A question about the 8 additional screens that Cineworld added in 2019; are they Scope or Flat? I ask because Cineworld has a tendency just to install Flat screens in its new cinemas.
I thought that the original cinema was quite impressive, big Scope screens, very dark auditoria with black matte walls, typical of the Vue style of the late 00s (as this was a Vue then). Has the recent refurbishment by Cineworld improved on this or made it worse? I hope the former.
Chapman Taylor’s website has been updated with new photos of the refurbished/extended Cineworld O2, including shots of what I assume to be the “VIP” lobby/bar, and a “VIP” auditorium.
Zappomatic: Cineworld’s “house style” sparkle tiles look fantastic, especially in black, and going by online prices, very expensive (though Cineworld’s seem to have coloured sparkles, which I can’t seem to find anywhere…)
(Typically ~£40-80/sq.m. at low volume consumer prices, and made of quartz/resin.)
All of which is to say that a “vast expanse” of them sounds good to me, but it does seem very odd that the extension foyer is so large (~11,500sq.ft.) seemingly without purpose—it’s not as if the rest of the complex is short of space! Perhaps an intended use is as a “flexible space” for hosting events?
Absolutely baffled by the design choice of the extended foyer: a vast expanse of glittery red and black flooring, dimly lit with a few sofas around the edge. Seems very strange not to have used this space for a Starbucks and/or a bar.
Screen 13: 157 seats across 10 rows with a slightly off-centre aisle
Further details for currently bookable screens:
Screen 12: 309 seats across 13 rows all in a single block plus 4 wheelchair spaces Screen 16: 442 seats across 17 rows with an aisle by the entrance
Tickets for the new 4DX screen are now on sale, for Avengers Endgame. It has 152 seats plus two wheelchair spaces spread across 10 rows.
Tickets are also on sale for VIP. VIP 1 has 61 seats plus 1 wheelchair space across 6 rows. VIP 2 is the same in a mirror image layout. VIP 3 has 56 seats plus 1 wheelchair space across 6 rows (curiously this screen seems to have been configured wrongly in the booking system so no premium over regular screens is being charged – will be interesting to see if they honour bookings)
Zappomatic: Thank you for the update.
Progress on the extension work is covered in an article on the website of AV Magazine, including photos. The fit-out started in December 2018.
Some key points from the article:
The article includes some puzzling statements, particularly the claim that the O2’s Superscreen is the largest screen in the UK (excluding the BFI IMAX)—Cineworld themselves operate venues with auditoria fitted with larger screens!
The cinema extension doesn’t look anywhere near ready to open, with a hole still in the outer wall and the interior still showing bare plasterboard. (See photo added today)
Has anyone visited this cinema recently, I presume all work on the extension (the addition of seven new screens) has now been completed?
Would be nice to see some photos of the new extension.
Hmm, I assume, specifically regarding wall coverings and the surrounds, you mean in the non-ScreenX auditoria?
The seating is newer than the blue flooring so they must have decided retain it in the refurb. In screens 1-10 the seats, lighting and carpet are new. Ceiling, hard flooring, hand rails and wall coverings (including the bulges housing the surrounds) are all from the original fit-out for Vue.
Zappomatic: Ah, that explains the handrails!
I suppose the seating would have to be removed to replace the vinyl floor covering.
The blue vinyl flooring and grey handrails in the screens here are all left over from the original fit-out, which is why they perhaps look slightly out of place.