AMC has pushed back reopening its sites from July 15 to July 30 after studios delayed their tentpole releases amid a surge in new Covid-19 cases across the US.
Later on Monday (June 29) Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti announced a “hard pause” on reopening businesses, including cinemas, after the number of cases in the county crossed 100,000 and city and California officials expressed renewed concerns over a possible hospital bed shortage.
A few hours later the governor of Arizona ordered cinemas and other specific businesses like gyms to shut down for 30 days as the state remained a hotspot. Others are expected to issue restrictions heading into the July Fourth holiday weekend.
The world’s largest exhibitor announced it will reopen at 450 sites, and at approximately 150 remaining venues a week later ahead of the first wave of new releases in a heavily diluted summer season.
The theatre chain said it expected “at least some theatres in all the 14 countries in which AMC operates outside the U.S. will have opened by July 30 as well, with a full global opening of theatres completed by early August”.
Last week Warner Bros pushed Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi thriller Tenet back to August 12, and several days later Disney moved its live-action adventure adaptation Mulan to August 21.
Other distributors followed suit with their releases, and on Monday (June 29) Sony said it was moving back rom-com The Broken Hearts Gallery to August 7.
The first wide release of a new film this summer will be Solstice Studios’ Russell Crowe road rage thriller Unhinged on July 31.
June 30, 2020 at 09:14AM
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