Customers are reporting anti-social behaviour and police have various weapons at their disposal.
The Cineworld on Glasgow's Renfrew Street shut after new owners Clydebankbridge Ltd bought the site.
All staff have been placed at risk of redundancy, according to documents posted on social media by affected employees.
Robert and Jenny Ellice say they covered their children's eyes as a gory scene played at Cineworld.
Planning permission is granted for an Aldi supermarket at the closed Cineworld site in Yate.
Weymouth Pavilion plans to screen films alongside theatre shows after Cineworld closed in December.
Karen Read set up the petition to keep Weymouth's cinema open but it closed on 30 December.
The final film is set to be shown at the Weymouth branch of the cinema chain.
The landlords of the Northampton site expect the new Odeon to open to the public in 2025.