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Since then, the building has undergone a £2m refurbishment that has seen a complete internal refit to the public areas and screens, and "substantial" repairs to the roof and stonework.The venue will boast a total capacity of 350 seats and the former three-screen cinema will now offer a fourth, seating 24, for private screenings.
A-listers from the film world got behind the campaign to save the well-loved cinema, including patrons Jack Lowden and Charlotte Wells and supporters Dougray Scott, Brian Cox, and Emma Thompson.When the cinema opens, it will show a programme of films missed during the venue's almost three year closure.Lowden, whose film credits include Dunkirk and the upcoming Tornado, said the reopened cinema would provide a lift to Scotland's film-makers and storytellers.
"Filmhouse is a place utterly dedicated to the promotion and celebration of independent cinema," he said."To have such a place on the streets of our capital providing the platform to give our world-class film-makers and storytellers the lift-off they need, and continue to ask the big questions of ourselves through cinema, is exciting and vital."
Moves to reopen the cinema began when the building's owners, Caledonian Heritable, agreed to lease the building back as a modern cinema space for a minimum period of 25 years, with a new lease being signed in July 2024.
Work to refurbish the venue then began in February 2025, supported by funding including £324,000 from the grassroots Open the Doors crowdfunding campaign, £1.5m from the UK government, and donations from other sources.TikTok has deleted the adverts the BBC highlighted, but all three companies are still on TikTok Shop selling other products without providing full allergen information.
The BBC has approached all of these sellers for comment but could not independently verify that the sellers were all listed in the UK.However, allergy charities say regardless of where the firms are based more should be done to keep consumers safe.
TikTok is a place where food trends go viral - from the pickle challenge which involved eating a hot pickle wrapped in a fruit roll-up - towhich sparked a shopping frenzy.