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===Film=== The films and plays ''[[The Full Monty]]'', ''[[Threads (1984 film)|Threads]]'', ''[[Looks and Smiles (film)|Looks and Smiles]]'', ''[[When Saturday Comes (film)|When Saturday Comes]]'', ''[[Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?]]'', ''[[The History Boys]]'' and ''[[Four Lions]]'' are set in the city.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/List?locations=Sheffield,+South+Yorkshire,+England,+UK&&tv=on |title=Locations: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK |work=The Internet Movie Database |publisher=Internet Movie Database |access-date=19 July 2009 |archive-date=3 January 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103055653/http://www.imdb.com/List?locations=Sheffield,+South+Yorkshire,+England,+UK&&tv=on |url-status=dead}}</ref> ''[[F.I.S.T. (film)|F.I.S.T.]]'', ''[[Kill List]]'', ''[['71 (film)|'71]]'' and ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'' also include several scenes filmed in Sheffield and a substantial part of ''[[Among Giants]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b80846206 |title=Locations: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK |publisher=The British Film Institute |access-date=6 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805190106/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b80846206 |archive-date=5 August 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> was filmed in the city. The documentary festival [[Sheffield Doc/Fest]] has been run annually since 1994 at the [[Showroom Cinema]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thestar.co.uk/what-s-on/cinema/shefield-doc-fest-2012-film-world-zooms-in-on-city-preview-video-1-4637530 |title=Sheffield Doc/Fest 2012: Film world zooms in on city |date=13 June 2012 |work=The Star |access-date=13 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017090507/http://www.thestar.co.uk/what-s-on/cinema/shefield-doc-fest-2012-film-world-zooms-in-on-city-preview-video-1-4637530 |archive-date=17 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and in 2007 Sheffield hosted the [[Awards of the International Indian Film Academy]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6737805.stm |title=Thousands cheer Bollywood stars |date=10 June 2007 |work=BBC News |access-date=19 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619151648/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6737805.stm |archive-date=19 June 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> The 2018 series of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', which features the [[Park Hill, Sheffield|Park Hill]] estate and other Sheffield locations, premiered in Sheffield.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-south-yorkshire-45589723 |title=Doctor Who premiere: How Sheffield red carpet happened |work=BBC News |access-date=25 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924140134/https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-england-south-yorkshire-45589723 |archive-date=24 September 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> A follow-up series of the same name, to the 1997 film ''The Full Monty'', which released on [[Disney+]] in 2023 was filmed in Sheffield<ref>{{cite web |date=12 January 2023 |title=More details of new Full Monty series as pictures show filming in Sheffield street |url=https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/people/the-full-monty-more-details-of-disney-series-revealed-as-pictures-show-filming-in-upperthorpe-sheffield-3983421 |access-date=14 May 2023 |website=The Star }}</ref> and Manchester<ref>{{cite web |last=Topping |first=Stephen |date=3 August 2022 |title=Film crews descend on town centre for Disney+ reboot of 90s classic |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/film-crews-descend-greater-manchester-24657593 |access-date=14 May 2023 |website=Manchester Evening News }}</ref> between 2022 and 2023. Furthermore, scenes in [[HBO]] miniseries ''[[The Regime (miniseries)|The Regime]],'' starring [[Kate Winslet]] and [[Hugh Grant]], were filmed in Sheffield as well as in [[Wentworth Woodhouse]], a stately home in neighbouring [[Rotherham]].<ref>{{cite web |date=28 April 2023 |title=Photos show filming taking place around Sheffield for drama starring Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant |url=https://www.thestar.co.uk/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/the-regime-sheffield-first-photos-emerge-of-hbo-drama-starring-kate-winslet-and-hugh-grant-being-filmed-4124160 |access-date=14 May 2023 |website=The Star }}</ref> [[File:Valley Centertainment, Sheffield.jpg|thumb|Valley Centertainment, Sheffield]] [[Valley Centertainment]], located in the [[Lower Don Valley|Don Valley]], is the main out of town leisure complex in Sheffield. It opened in the 1990s and was built on land previously occupied by [[steel mills]] across the road from what is now Sheffield Arena. It is anchored by a 20 screen [[Cineworld]] complex which is the largest in the chain and contains the only [[IMAX]] screens and [[4DX]] screen in Sheffield.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cineworld Sheffield (Formerly UGC Sheffield) – Sheffield |url=http://www.britinfo.net/T/1002387.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302141020/http://www.britinfo.net/T/1002387.htm |archive-date=2 March 2014 |access-date=3 October 2013 |publisher=Britinfo.net}}</ref> Other features of the complex include a [[bowling alley]], several chain restaurants, an indoor play area as well as indoor [[laser tag]]. Sheffield has six other cinema complexes, five of which are in the city centre and a one at Meadowhall—[[Odeon Sheffield]], situated on Arundel Gate in the city centre, [[Curzon Cinemas|Curzon]], which opened in 2015 in the former Sheffield Banking Company building on George Street,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.curzoncinemas.com/sheffield/info/about |title=Discover Curzon Sheffield |work=Curzon Cinemas |access-date=20 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811073024/http://www.curzoncinemas.com/sheffield/info/about |archive-date=11 August 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thestar.co.uk/whats-on/cinema/new-sheffield-cinema-to-open-in-january-1-6965923 |title=New Sheffield cinema to open in January. |work=The Star |access-date=20 July 2016 |location=Sheffield |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814200528/http://www.thestar.co.uk/whats-on/cinema/new-sheffield-cinema-to-open-in-january-1-6965923 |archive-date=14 August 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[The Light Cinemas|The Light]], located on The Moor and opened in 2017 as part of the regeneration project, and [[Vue (cinema)|Vue]], located within Meadowhall Shopping Centre, are the three other mainstream cinemas in the city. The [[Showroom Cinema, Sheffield|Showroom]], an independent cinema showing non-mainstream productions, is located in [[Sheaf Square]], close to [[Sheffield station]]. In 2002 the Showroom was voted as the best Independent cinema in the country by ''Guardian'' readers.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/feb/28/2002inreview.features |title=Guardian readers' favourite independent cinemas | Film |work=The Guardian |access-date=3 October 2013 |location=London |date=5 December 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002173336/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/feb/28/2002inreview.features |archive-date=2 October 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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