Movie Theaters

When the sun sets on the 2020 box office, it’ll be difficult to look at the numbers as anything but disastrous

The successful release of Pixar’s “Soul” and Warner Bros’ “Wonder Woman 1984” through streaming services served as test cases for how people’s expectations for big blockbusters rollouts are changing. Insider entertainment correspondent Kim Renfro stopped by LX News to break down what to expect from the entertainment industry in 2021.

Place a merry message on the El Capitan Theatre’s digital sign, and add fun graphics, too, for an additional fee.

Warner Brothers shook up Hollywood by announcing that all of its 2021 films will be released on HBO Max and in theaters at the same time. Media strategist Seth Schachner joined LX News to explain what this means for the future of movie watching.

It’s been two months since movie theaters started reopening in the U.S., but there is still a fair amount of consumer confusion about moviegoing in the COVID-19 era.

Regal Cinemas is temporarily suspending operations at all 536 of its theaters in the United States this week due to continued revenue losses from the coronavirus pandemic, its parent company Cineworld announced Monday.

U.K. media say cinema chain Cineworld will close all its U.K. venues after the postponement of the new James Bond film left a big hole in theaters’ schedules.

“Teen Wolf” actress Holland Roden stars in a new horror movie, “Follow Me,” that was inspired by the real-life dangers of massive social media fame. Roden, meanwhile, is teaching her own followers about the joys of van life.

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.