Sky Cinema

Sky Cinema
	Logo used since 1 October 2020
Country	United Kingdom
Broadcast area	United Kingdom; Ireland
Headquarters	London, England
Programming
Picture format	2160p UHDTV; (downscaled to 1080i and 16:9 576i for their HDTV and SDTV feeds respectively)
Ownership
Owner	Sky Group (Comcast)
Sister channels	List of Sky UK channels
History
Launched	5 February 1989
Replaced	The Power Station on the BSB service; Disney Cinemagic (UK & Ireland)
Former names	Sky Movies (1989–1998, 2002–2016)
Links
Website	www.sky.com/tv/cinema
Availability
Streaming media
Sky Go	Watch live (UK & Ireland only)
Now TV	Watch live (UK and Ireland only)
Virgin TV Anywhere	Watch live (UK only)

Sky Cinema is a British subscription film service owned by Sky Group (a division of Comcast). In the United Kingdom, Sky Cinema channels currently broadcast on the Sky satellite and Virgin Media cable platforms, and in addition Sky Cinema on demand content are available through these as well as via Now, EE TV and TalkTalk TV.

In 2016, Sky rebranded its television film channel operations under one single branding on 8 July, the channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland were rebranded from Sky Movies to Sky Cinema; on 22 September in Germany and Austria, the Sky Cinema brand (originally used for the flagship network) was extended to the German channels in the group formerly known as Sky Film; the Italian Sky Cinema channels followed suit on 5 November by adopting the brand packages introduced in the United Kingdom and Ireland earlier

Sky Cinema includes movie premieres from Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures alongside Sky Originals films [1]