13 Facts About Sky Cinema

Sky Cinema is a British subscription film service owned by Sky Group.

On 2 November 1990, Sky Cinema Television merged with rival British Satellite Broadcasting, acquiring The Movie Channel.

Three consecutive years in the early 1990s, Sky Cinema Movies carried several non-film premium content known as 'special events' including World Wrestling Federation's annual matches, various music concerts and live boxing competitions such as the first event was Mike Tyson vs Buster Douglas on 11 February 1990.

When Sky Cinema Sports became a pay channel on 1 September 1992, Sky Cinema Movies stopped showing non-movie related programming.

Sky Premier and Sky MovieMax both added three multiplex channels each, Sky Cinema launched Sky Cinema 2, and additionally, Sky Premier Widescreen – at the time was the only channel devoted to showing widescreen films were all launched exclusively on digital satellite.

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Sky Cinema Movies was overhauled in April 7,2007, when the different channels became dedicated to different genres, but three of the HD channels have launched already before the other:.

Sky Cinema Movies were rebranded as the part of the various Sky Cinema channels on 1 January 2010.

Sky Cinema Movies reshuffled its bouquet of ten channels to achieve greater "clarity" for subscribers.

Sky Cinema announced plans to launch a 4K ultra-high-definition feed later in the year.

On 22 June 2020, Sky Cinema added a content warning to several older films stating that they "have outdated attitudes, language, and cultural depictions which may cause offence today".

On 5 August 2021, Sky Cinema agreed a deal with ViacomCBS to launch Paramount+ in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria by 22 June 2022.

Sky Cinema has a dedicated production team that produces over 100 hours of original film-related programming each year – including Sky Cinema News and The Top Ten Show.

However, following a lack of success and her decision to leave Sky Cinema and set up her own production company called Shine, the unit was scaled back and closed in 2001.