Movie Theaters

Date night at the movies is woven into the very fabric of Americana. It’s a tradition that dates back to … well, the advent of movie theaters. But like many traditions in 2020, the movie-going experience came to a grinding halt as theaters across the country shuttered because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Indoor) Dinner and a movie are back in Orange County. Hetty Chang reported on NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020.

For the first time since March, people can say “hey let’s go to the movies.” The Regal Theater in Irvine has reopened after anxiously waiting for state and county officials to give the green light. Hetty Chang reports Sept. 8, 2020.

With U.S. movie theaters closed for months, the film industry was forced to pivot during the pandemic. LX’s Ngozi Ekeledo talked to film critic Alison Willmore about the future of big blockbusters, streaming wars and VOD releases post COVID-19.

More Americans will make their way back to the movies this weekend than any since the pandemic shuttered theaters in March

Somebody had to go first. That’s the thought behind why Solstice Studios is releasing the thriller “Unhinged” to more than 1,400 open theaters across the U.S. on Friday. It will be the first new release since COVID-19 shuttered theaters in late March.  AMC plans to reopen more than 100 U.S. locations and other chains like Regal Cinemas and Alamo...

NBC LA entertainment reporter Heather Brooker talks with Russell Crowe about his new movie “Unhinged.” It’s the first nationwide release since coronavirus shuttered movie theaters in March.

The nation’s largest movie theater chain, will reopen in the U.S. on Aug. 20 with retro ticket prices of 15 cents per movie

While some industries have heralded the third quarter as the beginning of a rebound from the financial devastation wraught by the coronavirus pandemic, the outlook is still dire for U.S. movie theater operators.  In recent days all of the major cinema chains released quarterly results that showed mounting losses as nearly 100% of revenue was wiped out as auditoriums...

AMC reversed course on a controversial policy on Friday, saying it will now require all patrons at its movie theaters to wear face masks in an effort to quell the spread of the coronavirus.

New state guidance says movie theaters will be able to reopen, but certain measures will have to be enforced.

The coronavirus pandemic is forcing Americans to go through every kind of hardship without some of the reliable comforts of hard times.