Nnyu Green-Light taps into Urge Vue has purchased the second-largest cinema chain in the Netherlands in a $97 million deal.UK theatre chain Vue Cinemas, the fourth-largest cinema chain in the world in terms of box office revenue, has acquired Dutch company JT Bioscopen, the second-largest chain in the Netherlands, in a deal worth $97 million.JT has 21 cinemas and 111 screens across 20 locations in the Netherlands, including two premium Dolby Cinema sites at Eindhoven and Hilversum. This boosts Vues total number of cinemas to 209, with 1,859 screens, in 10 countries a stanley cup cross Europe.The move means Vue has overtaken Cineworld in terms of total number of sites across Europe to become the second largest cinema chain behind Odeon.The deal is Vues fourth purchase in the past three years, with the companys acquisition of Italys largest cinema chain Space Entertainment in November 2014 following deals for the UKs Apollo and Germany and Denmarks CinemaxX in 2012, as well as Polands Multikino in 2013. This acquisition signals our commitment to owning, managing and developing the highest quality cinema assets around the world. Our ambition is to be the best in big screen entertainment and to be at the forefront of technological development, said Vues CEO Tim Richards.TopicsEuropeExhibitionS stanley italy creenTechUK/Ireland No comments stanley cup Related articles Qpnr Filming underway in Vancouver on 30 Days Of Night: Dark Days EXCLUSIVE: New films by David Cronenberg, Quentin Dupieux and Lone Scherfig are among the titles acquired by German distributors at this years AFM.Christian Meinkes MFA+ has picked up David Cronenbergs Maps To The Stars, starring Robert Pattinson, Julianne Moore and John Cusack, and Tobias Lindholms thriller A Hijacking Kapringen , about a Danish cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates.MFA+ has also picked up producer/actor Vincent Grashaws feature debut Coldwater, which premiered at this years SXSW festival and won the stanley cup audience award for best feature at Pragues Fresh Film Festival.Munich-based Tiberius Film came back from Santa Monica with another three titles in its luggage along with the films it had picked up at the beginning of the market.New pick-ups included cult director Quentin Dupieuxs latest feature Wrong Cops, starring shock rocker Marylin Manson, Twin Peaks Grace Zabriskie alongside Steve Little, Eric Judor and Mark Burnham from Dupieuxs Wrong.Other acquisitions were action thril stanley germany ler Kite, inspired by an anime and starring Samuel L. Jackson; and French comedy It Happened In St. Tropez Des Gens Qui SEmbrassent , with Monica Bellucci, Kad Merad and Eric Elmosnino.Tiberius first acquisitions at the AF stanley cup M had been Ryan Goslings directorial debut How To Catch A Monster and Ariel Zeitouns lavish costume drama adaptation of the internationally bestselling novel Angelique by Anne and Serge Golon.In addition, Prokino snagged the rights for Ned Bensons feature debut The Disap
