10 Facts About Tyneside Cinema

Tyneside Cinema is an independent cinema in Newcastle upon Tyne.

The Tyneside Cinema's patrons are filmmakers Mike Figgis and Mike Hodges, and musicians Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys and Paul Smith of Maximo Park.

Alongside its core programme of cultural cinema, the newly refurbished Tyneside Cinema holds daily free screenings of archive newsreel footage and guided tours.

Tyneside Cinema building was conceived, designed and built by Dixon Scott, a local entrepreneur and the Great Uncle of film directors Sir Ridley and Tony Scott.

Tyneside Cinema was opened as a news cinema, the Bijou News-Reel Cinema on 1 February 1937, and was commonly known as the News Theatre.

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Tyneside Cinema had occupied its Pilgrim Street site since 1937, and had by 1999 declined to a critical state, with many believing it would eventually be forced to close.

Tyneside Cinema reopened in May 2008, following the major restoration of its original auditorium, alongside a modern extension and redevelopment of the upper floors designed by Fletcher Priest Architects and consulting engineers Cundall.

In November 2019, following an employment tribunal, Tyneside Cinema was found to have discriminated against a former employee who lived with mental health disabilities, and had not made reasonable adjustments to protect them.

We do not feel that Tyneside Cinema is a safe workplace for everyone.

Tyneside Cinema won the Building Conservation and Tourism and Leisure categories as well as the overall accolade Project of the Year at the 2009 Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors North East Renaissance Awards at Newcastle Civic Centre on 25 April 2009.