Angela Chan

And I guess Easy Cinema was a David and Goliath story.

He wanted to make himself out to be the little guy, even though he was a very successful entrepreneur by then.

And the big bad distributors were his Goliath.

So it had all the makings of a great film, but it wasn't quite what he expected it to be.

Well, it was a happy sort of chaos, Sean.

I mean, the turnstiles didn't work, but Stelios handles it.

with great ease, you know, he just opened the turnstiles and said, nevermind, he's hands-on, he makes it work.

And, you know, it was big families that turned up.

They were delighted with their 20p tickets.

They were delighted to bring their own popcorn and save money.

And it's a smelly old cinema.

Stelios even went around with a bin bag at the end of the night, collecting the rubbish, you know, so it launched, but it launched Stelios style.

Oh, it was like the Wild West, Sean.

There was a bit of tumbleweed blowing across the plaza in Milton Keynes.

It was very quiet.

There wasn't much more to film.

And I couldn't help but think that for all the publicity stunts, to cast the distributors as the bad guy in this movie hadn't really helped.

You know, they're investors.

They care about their premium product.

And although it had caught the public imagination, I'm not sure it had really helped the business.