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CASABLANCA RETURNS TO THE BIG SCREEN AT SELECTED UK CINEMA’S FOR VALENTINES DAY

Casablanca will be back in cinemas for special Valentine’s Day screenings at 63 Cineworld sites around the UK. The film has been digitally restored and will be screened via digital cinema and new 35mm prints.

World War II Morocco springs to life in Michael Curtiz’s classic love story. Colourful characters abound in Casablanca, a waiting room for Europeans trying to escape Hitler’s war-torn Europe. HUMPHREY BOGART plays Rick Blaine, a cynical but good-hearted American whose café is the gathering place for everyone from the French Police to the black market to the Nazis. When his long-lost love, Ilsa (INGRID BERGMAN), surfaces in Casablanca with her Resistance leader husband, Victor Laszlo (PAUL HENREID), Rick is pulled into both a love triangle and a web of political intrigue. Ilsa and Victor need to escape from Casablanca, and Rick may be the only one who can help them.

Nominated for eight Oscars at the 1944 Academy Awards, the film won three: best picture, best director and best screenplay. It regularly features at the top of all time best movie lists.

Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson will be opening at Curzon Soho/Curzon Mayfair and nationwide at Cineworld cinema’s from 14th February. The film has been digitally restored and will be screened via digital cinema and brand new 35mm prints.

Casablanca is being released through Park Circus, the UK’s only commercial film distributor specialising in the acquisition and distribution of classic films for theatrical release. The film is being released in partnership with TCM.

Alan Musa TCM VP and Channel Manager said -
“TCM is delighted to be sponsoring the return of arguably the most famous classic film of all time, Casablanca, to cinema screens around the UK. It is great to work alongside Park Circus, which shares our passion for celebrating the great heritage of Hollywood’s Golden Age, and introduce this great film to a whole new generation of film-goers.”

Casablanca airs on TCM 25th February at 3pm.

Participating Cineworld venues (contact locally for screening times and further details):

ABERDEEN
ASHFORD
ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE
BEDFORD
BIRMINGHAM BROAD STREET
BOLDON TYNE & WEAR
BOLTON
BRADFORD
BRAINTREE
BRIGHTON
BURTON ON TRENT
BURY ST EDMUNDS
CAMBRIDGE
CARDIFF
CASTLEFORD
CHELTENHAM
CHESTERFIELD
CHICHESTER
CRAWLEY
DIDCOT
DIDSBURY
DUNDEE
EASTBOURNE
EDINBURGH
FALKIRK
GLASGOW RENFREW STREET
GLOUCESTER
HULL
HUNTINGDON
IPSWICH
ISLE OF WIGHT
LIVERPOOL
LLANDUDNO
LONDON - BEXLEYHEATH
LONDON - ENFIELD
LONDON - FELTHAM
LONDON - FULHAM ROAD
LONDON - HARLOW
LONDON- ILFORD
LONDON - LUTON
LONDON - SHAFTESBURY AVENUE
LONDON - STAPLES CORNER
LONDON - WANDSWORTH
LONDON - WEST INDIA QUAY
LONDON - WOOD GREEN
MIDDLESBROUGH
MILTON KEYNES
NEWPORT
NORTHAMPTON
NOTTINGHAM
ROCHESTER
RUGBY
RUNCORN
SHEFFIELD
SHREWSBURY
SOLIHULL
ST HELENS
STEVENAGE
SWINDON
WAKEFIELD
WEYMOUTH
WOLVERHAMPTON
YEOVIL

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