Star Cinemas is set to open a new multi-screen cinema in The Concourse Shopping Centre, Skelmersdale, which will become the town's first since 1982.
The American firm, which operates screens in California and Arizona, hopes to open the new venue in August or September, dependent on the government's social isolation guidelines.
The owners have promised to price screenings at £5 each, seven days a week, and to offer food and drink at half the price of rival national cinemas.
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