Everyman Bury St Edmunds

In Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, the arc Shopping Centre is a mixed-use re-development of the former cattle market on the western edge of the town.

It opened in March 2009, and has stand-alone buildings set out in ‘open street-scape’ style. It includes 62 homes and there was 25,000m2 of retail space. One of these was a 7,500m2 Debenhams store, housed in an eye-catching ‘double-curved’ building clad with sand-cast aluminium panels, which are intended to reduce the building’s perceived height and bulk.

The Debenhams store closed in May 2021, when the chain went into liquidation. The building was converted into dual use, with retailer Primark opening on the ground floor in March 2024, while an Everyman cinema opened in the basement (with a modest ground floor entrance). Their entrances are at opposite ends of the building.

The Everyman cinema opened on Wednesday 14th February 2024. In a ‘soft’ opening, free tickets were on offer for opening day screenings of musical biopic “Bob Marley: One Love” (Screen 2) and family drama “10 Things I Hate About You” (Screen 3) and also for children’s favourites “Migration” (Screen 1) and “Wonka” (Screen 2) and the 1985 sci-fi adventure comedy “Back to the Future” (Screen 3) the following day. (There were only single screenings for these films. Not surprisingly, they were all ‘sold’ out!)

Films from Friday 16th February were espionage drama “Argylle”, children’s favourites “Migration” and “Wonka”, wrestling biopic “The Iron Claw”, musical biopic “Bob Marley: One Love”, romantic drama “All of Us Strangers”, comedy drama “The Holdovers” and historical drama “One Life”.

Seating capacities are: Screen 1:94, Screen 2:74 and Screen 3:60. All have NEC laser projection, Dolby digital 7.1 sound, satellite and live show capabilities.

There is also, of course, the usual extensive bar/restaurant offering.

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