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The Utopia Group SA was a Luxembourgish
cinema Cinema may refer to: Film * Cinematography, the art of motion-picture photography * Film or movie, a series of still images that create the illusion of a moving image ** Film industry, the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking ...
chain which owned and operated cinemas located in
Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
,
France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...
,
Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...
, and the
Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...
. In 2015, its French, Luxembourg and Dutch operations were acquired by the Kinepolis Group. The Utopia Group's Belgian operations were bought by the French ''
Union Générale Cinématographique UGC is a cinema operator in France and Belgium, operating 57 cinemas as of 2022. It is also a major film production and distribution company. France & Belgium UGC was originally an exclusively French operator, created in 1971 from a merger of s ...
'' (UGC), following a ruling against Kinepolis' bid by the Belgian competition authority''.'' Originally formed in 2002 as a result of a merger between Luxembourg's Utopia SA and the Dutch Polyfilm BV, the company operated 19 cinemas, predominantly in the
Benelux The Benelux Union ( nl, Benelux Unie; french: Union Benelux; lb, Benelux-Unioun), also known as simply Benelux, is a politico- economic union and formal international intergovernmental cooperation of three neighboring states in western Europe: ...
region, under the brand name of "Utopolis", with its flagship cinema, Utopolis Kirchberg (now
Kinepolis Kirchberg Kinepolis Kirchberg is a multiplex cinema in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg, owned and operated by the Kinepolis Group, following their acquisition of the Utopia Group SA in late 2015. Prior to this, the multiplex was known as "Utopolis ...
), based in Luxembourg City. Whilst most of the Utopia Group's cinemas have been renamed following the changes in ownership, a tribute remains in the form of the "Utopia" cinema in the Limpertsberg district of Luxembourg City.


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Utopia Group official website
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