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Final curtain for six Hong Kong cinemas
Macao News > Culture > Final curtain for six Hong Kong cinemas

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UA closes its six venues overnight, dismaying fans, however the show goes on at Macau Galaxy’s 1,000-seat multiplex.

UA Cinemas Galaxy Macau
Photo by Galaxy Macau
8 March 20218 March 2021 BY STAFF REPORTER
BY STAFF REPORTER8 March 20218 March 2021

Covid-19 has claimed another victim in Hong Kong – UA Cinemas, which screened thousands of international and local blockbusters over more than 35 years.

The chain’s half-dozen cinemas were shuttered with little warning “due to unavoidable and devastating pressure faced by our operations since the outbreak of the [novel] coronavirus pandemic” according to a company statement. The city’s cinema-goers swiftly took to the internet to express their disappointment that Covid-19 had struck another blow at everyday life.

However, a spokesperson for Macao’s 1,000-seat UA Galaxy Cinemas at Galaxy Macau resort in Cotai told The Macau Post Daily that the 10-screen cineplex “operates as usual” and will continue in business. 

UA’s Hong Kong operation was founded in 1985 by larger-than-life US tycoon Ira Kaye, who set up the American Chamber of Commerce and also dabbled in agriculture and telecommunications.

 

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