Three decades ago, US exhibition giant AMC revolutionised the then struggling UK cinema sector by opening The Point in Milton Keynes, a medium-sized ‘new’ town about 40 miles north-west of London. In the days when run-down high street venues had been justifiably nicknamed fleapits, this was a gleaming new 10 screen multiplex, the very first of its kind in the UK.
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