Drive-in movies ready to launch Goodwood season

As George Wood, founder of The Luna Cinema, says, Goodwood was always the venue he wanted to add to his list.

And he and the team have done precisely that with a busy programme of films at Goodwood Motor Circuit from April 17.

George has been delivering open-air picnic cinema for a dozen years. Last year, he was brilliantly placed to make the switch to drive-in cinema, one of the country’s big discoveries of the pandemic.

“I always say it took us 12 years to perfect open-air cinema. And then we had 12 days to perfect drive-in cinema!

“Thinking back to when the lockdown started, we all just had no way of fathoming how long it was going to last. We were all just thinking that it was going to go away in a few weeks. So we just thought ‘Let’s all work from home and see what happens.’ We didn’t for one second anticipate what a huge thing this was going to be.”

It was certainly worrying: “We had spent 12 years building up open-air cinema and we were just about to put on sale our biggest season and then it was like everything was going to just fall away. We were just thinking what could we possibly do.