Leicester Square premiere screen
West End, London
£3,900
per week
per week
Cinema advertising in the United Kingdom
From£460per week
Median price£1,740per week
Typical run1 weekmost-booked length
Spaces listed288in the UK
Cinema in the UK
Shapes below are drawn to each surface's real proportions.
Cinema by city in the UK
Prices below are that city's median, not the national one.
Cinema questions, answered
What buyers ask before booking this format in the UK.
How much does cinema advertising cost in the United Kingdom?
Across 288 listed spaces, prices start at £460 per week and the median is £1,740. London prices highest of the cities on this page and Birmingham lowest. The listed price is what a buyer pays.
How long is a typical booking?
1 week. Shorter runs are possible where the owner allows them, but most cinema inventory is sold in whole cycles because posting, installing or scheduling costs the same however long the creative stays up.
Who handles production and installation?
The operator encodes the DCP, delivers it to the projection system and reports screenings per site.
What artwork do I need to supply?
A 2048 × 858 master with 5.1 audio, ten working days ahead. The creative needs a certificate from the national classification body, billed separately.
Can I negotiate the price?
Some listings are Book now at the owner's fixed price. Others take Make offer or Request quote, where the owner comes back with a price for your dates. Closed-bid listings take sealed bids and award the space to the highest one at close.
What moves the price
The cheapest cinema space in the UK is £460 and the median is £1,740. Five things account for the gap.
Admissions and certificate
Price follows weekly admissions at the site and the certificate your creative clears — a spot passed for U audiences plays in front of far more screenings than one rated 15.
How long you book for
Most cinema campaigns in the UK run 1 week. Owners discount the longer runs — two weeks is rarely twice the one-week price, and four weeks is rarely four times it.
When you book
The weeks either side of Christmas, and the fortnight before a public holiday, price above the annual median. January and the first half of February are the cheapest windows in every city on this page.
Production and install
The operator encodes the DCP, delivers it to the projection system and reports screenings per site.
How the space is sold
Book now spaces carry a fixed price. Make offer and Request quote spaces are priced by the owner for your exact dates, so the same site can settle above or below the median depending on what is already booked around it.