Here's what you should look for when you watch the movie in theaters next month. BY Michele Debczak. Subscribe to our Newsletter! We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. As theaters slowly reopen, studios turn to classics to fill the screens.
The circumstances are the fodder of a Michael Crichton novel: After the initial outbreak of the novel coronavirus, and the subsequent lockdown measures designed to prevent further spread of COVID, movie theaters became one of hundreds of types of businesses forced to cease operations. The urgent decision has been catastrophic for the industry, with AMC Theatres, the largest chain in the U.
Cinemark and Regal are currently encouraging, but not requiring , ticket buyers to wear masks; AMC recently took a hard mask-wearing stance after a wave of backlash.
The appetite for big-screen entertainment is an unknown factor, causing studios to re-reschedule tentpoles like Wonder Woman from August to the fall and bump kid-centric fare like The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run directly to streaming in this case, a CBS All Access premiere in But for now, studios are relying on late winter releases Sonic the Hedgehog , The Invisible Man and a handful of classics to fill the gaps.
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