It is one of the oldest running cinemas in the UK and London’s oldest independent community cinema.
The Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley, north London, was built in 1910 and opened in 1912 as the East Finchley Picturedrome.
Film directors Mike Leigh and Ken Loach and Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant have joined forces to protest against plans to hand over the running of one of Britain’s oldest independent cinemas to a commercial operator.
The Phoenix trustees have been approached for comment.