During the Golden Age of cinema (1930-1960s), Jersey had six cinemas, with typically one screen per cinema, excluding the Odeon, which had a few more.

Nowadays, there are only 10 cinema screens located at Cineworld in St Helier, aside from various independent cinema spaces which could be rented, such as Howard Davis Park, where the Jersey Film Festival has taken place at one year.

The number of cinema screens over the years have declined in Jersey due to the release of DVD and other formats that are more easily accessible, and with the releases of modern streaming services, less and less cinemas have popular films to show. This implies that in the future most films will have to release straight to a streaming service, as a cinema release isn’t as strong a source of profit as it used to be.