At the risk of sounding like a party pooper, what makes anyone think a Cinema would be popular? I just cant see it working in Forest Hill. Especially when old people can sit at home and watch films on the TV for free, youth would rather hang out with their mates, anyone who wants to see a current film will go to a multiplex, so that leaves the arty mob - who wont go everynight. As much as I'd like it work I just cant see it.
I'm not so sure. Until reasonably recently I worked in Islington, and just up the road from a 9 screen Vue multiplex is the Screen on the Green. Admitedly it went for a more "serious" type of film, but seemed to be surviving quite well. There are several Screen cinemas dotted around so there may be scope for a Screen on the Hill/Oak