It's all quite sad as the UK's high street will now likely lose a popular and familiar brand name." The company admitted about 95 million cinema-goers in 2021, up 75% on the 54 million in 2020 but well below the 275 million who attended before the Covid crisis. The state of Cineworld stands in stark contrast to the performance of AMC Entertainment, the world's largest cinema group and owner of the Odeon chain in the UK, which said the new Top Gun and Dr Strange films had fuelled a doubling of ticket sales in the US.