Soho and Shoreditch line up classic films, dining-led screenings and early Halloween favourites as the UK expands its annual cinema celebration to 5–6 September.
Soho and Shoreditch line up classic films, dining-led screenings and early Halloween favourites as the UK expands its annual cinema celebration to 5–6 September.
- Courthouse Hotel Soho will screen four Saturday classics in September, beginning with Sex and the City on 5 September and continuing with When Harry Met Sally, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Snatch.
- Courthouse Hotel Shoreditch’s Sunday programme features Dead Poets Society, The Social Network, Children of Men and Little Miss Sunshine across 6–27 September.
- The opening Soho and Shoreditch screenings coincide with National Cinema Weekend on 5–6 September, when participating UK cinemas are offering tickets from £4.
- Both hotels are also preparing Halloween programmes, with titles including Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Get Out, Hereditary and The Conjuring.
(NEWS) LONDON, United Kingdom, 2026-Sep-03 — /Travel PR News/ — The first weekend of September is shaping up as a particularly film-focused one in London. The UK’s National Cinema Weekend takes place on 5 and 6 September 2026, expanding the industry’s former one-day celebration into a full weekend, while Courthouse Hotel Soho and Courthouse Hotel Shoreditch are using the same period to open a month of classic and cult screenings inside their own private cinemas.
National Cinema Weekend, organised by Cinema First, is offering tickets from £4 at participating cinemas across the UK, with more than 530 venues confirmed ahead of the event. The Courthouse Hotels programmes are separate hotel cinema experiences with their own packages and pricing, but their first September screenings fall directly on the national weekend, giving visitors another way to build a film outing into a London stay or day trip.
Saturday classics in Soho
At Courthouse Hotel Soho, the Saturday cinema programme begins on 5 September with Sex and the City. When Harry Met Sally follows on 12 September, Breakfast at Tiffany’s on 19 September and Snatch on 26 September.
- 5 September – Sex and the City
- 12 September – When Harry Met Sally
- 19 September – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- 26 September – Snatch
The hotel’s published cinema package combines a 5pm film screening with a Champagne cocktail and a choice of dining options, including a two-course lunch, traditional afternoon tea or a two-course dinner. The experience is currently listed from £37.50 per person.
The setting gives the screenings a character that conventional multiplexes cannot easily replicate. Courthouse Hotel Soho occupies the Grade II-listed former Great Marlborough Street Magistrates’ Court, and its 100-seat private cinema is fitted with professional digital projection and Dolby 7.1 sound. The building retains reminders of its judicial past elsewhere too, including former holding cells and courtroom features incorporated into the hotel.
Sunday cult favourites in Shoreditch
Across town, Courthouse Hotel Shoreditch is continuing its Sunday Classics & Cult Cinema programme with a line-up that moves from coming-of-age drama to technology, dystopia and road-movie comedy.
- 6 September – Dead Poets Society
- 13 September – The Social Network
- 20 September – Children of Men
- 27 September – Little Miss Sunshine
The Shoreditch property occupies the former Old Street Magistrates Court and Police Station, a Grade II-listed Baroque building now housing a 180-seat cinema. The hotel’s history is woven into its hospitality spaces, while the screening room gives the property an unusually large dedicated film venue for a central London hotel.
Halloween screenings extend the season
The cinema calendar is also set to continue into the run-up to Halloween. Shoreditch is preparing screenings including Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, while Soho’s darker selection includes Get Out, Hereditary and The Conjuring.
For travellers planning an early-autumn London break, the two programmes add a weather-proof cultural option that can sit alongside theatre, dining and nightlife. More broadly, their timing reflects the renewed push around communal filmgoing this September: National Cinema Weekend is encouraging audiences back to participating cinemas nationwide, while hotel screening rooms are turning the big-screen experience into part of a wider hospitality stay.
