{"id":380629,"date":"2026-01-20T16:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380629\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:54:12","slug":"picturehouse-boss-clare-binns-asks-directors-to-make-shorter-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380629\/","title":{"rendered":"Picturehouse Boss Clare Binns Asks Directors To Make Shorter Films"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tClare Binns<\/a>, creative director of Cineworld<\/a>-owned boutique theater chain Picturehouse<\/a> Cinemas, has claimed that film runtimes are proving to be a problem for audiences and cinemas.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking after BAFTA announced<\/a> that she would receive an Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema award, Binns used the platform to appeal to directors to make shorter movies.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Picturehouse boss said she speaks to producers about the trend, which led to Oscar-winner The Brutalist<\/a> inserting an interval into its 215-minute runtime.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI talk to producers about this and say: \u2018Tell the director you\u2019re making the film for an audience, not the directors,\u2019\u201d she told The Guardian<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s always exceptions, but I look at a lot of films and think: \u2018You could take 20 minutes out of that.\u2019 There\u2019s no need for films to be that long.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBinns said longer films mean that theaters \u201conly get one evening show,\u201d which could hurt the revenue of some chains. \u201cI think it\u2019s a wake-up call to directors. If they want their films in cinemas, people have to feel comfortable about what they\u2019re committing to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Clare<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tClare Binns<\/p>\n

\n\tBinns began her career as a cinema usher in the early 1980s. Working her way up to projectionist and then manager at the Ritzy cinema in London, she went on to operate a network of UK cinemas under Zoo Cinemas before joining Picturehouse in 2003.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe told The Guardian that cinemas are \u201cin a much better place\u201d after the pandemic, and voiced confidence in the medium amid Netflix\u2019s \u201cunsettling\u201d takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. \u201cPeople have predicted the end of cinema many times \u2013 when television arrived, when we went digital. We\u2019re still standing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\tBinns will receive her BAFTA<\/a> at the Film Awards on February 22. The ceremony will be hosted by Alan Cumming. BAFTA longlists were published last week, with Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s One Battle After Another leading the pack with a record 16 mentions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clare Binns, creative director of Cineworld-owned boutique theater chain Picturehouse Cinemas, has claimed that film runtimes are proving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[72590,6491,144459,144460,96,144461,138063,144462,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-380629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bafta","tag-celebrities","tag-cineworld","tag-clare-binns","tag-entertainment","tag-picturehouse","tag-the-brutalist","tag-the-brutalistm","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}