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Vue Manchester Printworks

Tom Grieve, Cinema Editor
Vue Printworks Manchester

Formerly run by Odeon, Vue Manchester Printworks is the biggest cinema in Manchester with a whopping 23 screens capable of seating 4,472 people. The programming covers all of the latest 2D and 3D movies, but there is also room for plenty of Event Cinema releases and some of the bigger mainstream foreign language titles. Vue also boasts the city’s only IMAX screen and it is the only local cinema capable of presenting films from 70mm celluloid.

The Printworks, 29 Withy GroveManchesterM4 2BS
Telephone: 0345 308 4620 Visit Now

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