Gladiator actor Russell Crowe and Shaun of the Dead creator Edgar Wright have both shared the call to save The Electric ...

An old Birmingham cinema that spent years as a strip club and shisha bar has been granted Grade II listed status. The Futurist, on John Bright Street, has been listed by the Department for Culture, ...

Designed by Horace G Bradley for Selly Oak Pictures Ltd, the Royalty was built in 1930. The cinema was taken over by Associated British Cinemas (ABC) in March 1935 and screened its last movie in 1963.

The venue provided a key piece of Birmingham’s music puzzle, co-existing with smaller and larger concert spaces such as The Nick, the former Bottletree Cafe, the Alys Stephens Center and Oak ...

The site of a "pioneering" former cinema has been granted listed status. The Futurist, on John Bright Street in Birmingham, survived two world wars and was the first in the city to show "talkies ...

One of the UK’s oldest working cinemas, the Electric Birmingham, has shut, with the last film screening listed as yesterday (February 29). The closure has been confirmed on the cinema’s ...