Vue Birmingham
Star City, Unit 29, Watson Road,
Nechells,
Birmingham,
B7 5SB
Star City, Unit 29, Watson Road,
Nechells,
Birmingham,
B7 5SB
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Please update, the official screen count is 19, per the official website. Here’s what they’ve written:
“Vue Birmingham features The Recliner, with individual food tables for a VIP experience like no other. Located in the Star City Entertainment Complex, Vue Birmingham has 19 screens with more than 3,750 seats. All screens are fitted with Digital Dolby Surround Sound. Screen 7: 177 seats Screen 8: 137 seats Screen 9: 137 seats Screen 10: 118 seats Screen 11: 118 seats Screen 12: 537 seats Screen 13: 213 seats Screen 14: 196 seats Screen 15: 139 seats Screen 16: 47 seats Screen 17: 64 seats Screen 18: 64 seats Screen 19: 537 seats Screen 25: 133 seats Screen 26: 179 seats Screen 27: 242 seats Screen 28: 242 seats Screen 29: 151 seats Screen 30: 133 seats”
1997 plan for this cinema. Star Cinema plan 02 May 1997, Fri The Birmingham Post (Birmingham, West Midlands, England) Newspapers.com
Please change the screen count to 25. Mike already mentioned this.
On March 9, 2021, A 24-Year-Old Man Named Ateef Rafiq Died In An Unusual Way After Being Trapped Inside One Of The Vue Birmingham Screens. Reports Later Say That He Died From A Cardiac Arrest Inside One Of The Screens.
Now 25 screens. Screens 20-24 are closed. seating info posted in the photo section.
More than a gang, it was a mob of 100 fighting.
Cinema unfortunately in the news when a gang armed with machetes caused a fight and terrified families witnessed armed police arriving to close the cinema and deal with the situation on 23rd November, 2019
A March 2008 view of the Vue Star City complex:
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Exterior signage at Vue Star City, photographed July 2006:
http://flickr.com/photos/nalarewop/186576063/
Foyer:
http://flickr.com/photos/brettwilde/1505187871/
Another perspective of the foyer:
http://flickr.com/photos/95009192@N00/1151668749/