Stone Theatres, a small cinema chain with locations in North Carolina and South Carolina, has been empty for months after theater operator Dale Coleman made the difficult decision to stay closed due to the lack of new movies to show.
Yet for the first time since March, the lobby of The Pointe 14 in Wilmington, N.C. is bustling. People aren’t coming to see “The Croods: A New Age” and they certainly aren’t showing up for “Wonder Woman 1984.” Instead, nearby residents are going to their local theater to get Covid-19 vaccines.
The local New Hanover Regional Medical Center has set up shop inside the theater to vaccinate those eligible to make appointments. Currently in North Carolina, only frontline health-care workers, longterm care staff and residents, and adults ages 65 and up can register to receive the vaccine. Carolyn Fisher, New Hanover Regional Medical Center’s director of marketing, says...
Yet for the first time since March, the lobby of The Pointe 14 in Wilmington, N.C. is bustling. People aren’t coming to see “The Croods: A New Age” and they certainly aren’t showing up for “Wonder Woman 1984.” Instead, nearby residents are going to their local theater to get Covid-19 vaccines.
The local New Hanover Regional Medical Center has set up shop inside the theater to vaccinate those eligible to make appointments. Currently in North Carolina, only frontline health-care workers, longterm care staff and residents, and adults ages 65 and up can register to receive the vaccine. Carolyn Fisher, New Hanover Regional Medical Center’s director of marketing, says...
- 1/22/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
In the latest setback for an already struggling film industry, Regal, the second-largest U.S. movie theater chain, is closing its theaters two months after reopening. It’s a decision, made in response to the delay of “No Time to Die,” that underscores the immense fallout surrounding the fact that moviegoing just isn’t a popular activity during a pandemic.
It’s unclear at this point if other major operations like AMC Theatres or Cinemark will follow suit. Cineworld, Regal’s parent company, is also shuttering locations in the U.K. For independently owned and operated theaters, many of which are in small towns across the country, the pressure has been mounting for some time now, with many concerned about their chances for survival in a world without exciting new movies to offer. Many have scaled back hours and limited the number of days they are open. Others, like Regal,...
It’s unclear at this point if other major operations like AMC Theatres or Cinemark will follow suit. Cineworld, Regal’s parent company, is also shuttering locations in the U.K. For independently owned and operated theaters, many of which are in small towns across the country, the pressure has been mounting for some time now, with many concerned about their chances for survival in a world without exciting new movies to offer. Many have scaled back hours and limited the number of days they are open. Others, like Regal,...
- 10/5/2020
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
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