Val-d’Oise. After 15 years of fighting, this city will finally have its cinema

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“15 years of fighting which normally ends this evening. You have to know how to be patient. The Versailles administrative court of appeal rejected the last appeal against the installation of the cinema in Cormeilles-en-Parisis.

” Finally ! »

Yannick Boëdec, the mayor (Dvd) of Cormeilles-en-Parisis, (Val-d’Oise) was delighted, Friday, November 15, with the green light given to the cinema project.

” Finally ! » says the elected official, whose first letter addressed to Pathé at the time dates back to 2009. He will discuss the project for the first time at a public meeting in 2012, after Pathé responded favorably.

The leisure center was six months late

But it is not Pathé which will build this cinema with six rooms and 730 seats, but Mégarama, after a long series… The cinema will be part of the leisure center under construction to the south of Bois-Rochefort, including a bowling alley, a karting, a café-theatre, indoor football, a fitness room, a trampoline, a virtual reality room, a Prison island.

Six rooms, 730 seats

Having fallen behind schedule (it was to be completed by Christmas 2024), the project will not be delivered until summer 2025. Only the Fitness Park will open on Thursday November 28. For the cinema, we will probably have to wait until next summer.

So in 2009, the mayor wrote to Pathé. But from Cdac to Cnac (departmental and national commercial development commission), the project ended up failing. At the time, it was a 12-room project. Then Kinépolis relaunched a project of 8 rooms, which also failed.

Fierce competition between cities

It must be said that competition was then fierce with other municipalities which also had cinema projects: Franconville, Montigny-lès-Cormeilles, Argenteuil, Bezons… Mégarama ended up winning and this is perhaps also linked to the fact that the Argenteuil multiplex project has fallen through, since the municipality announced the abandonment of the Fiminco project.

The nine-screen Étoile Cinéma project was nevertheless validated by the national commercial development commission (Cnac) in 2017.

The abandonment of the project in Argenteuil

It was Fiminco who appealed to the administrative court of appeal against the Cormeillais project. His project in Argenteuil having aborted, the mayor of Cormeilles does not think that the developer will go as far as the Council of State.

No question of an extension of cinema in the future

Ironically, Mégarama was in competition with Cormeilles-en-Parisis when it established its multiplex in Montigny.

Yannick Boëdec has already said this and reaffirms that the cinema will remain at six screens. No question of an extension in the future. “The current local urban plan (Plu) would not allow this.” The town hall also specifies that the Cormier cinema will continue.

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