COVID has hit businesses very hard and movie theaters are no exception. The last movie I saw in theaters, I think, was The Invisible Man and it was so long ago. I have begun to forget that smell of freshly popped corn and gummy bears and the taste of a Cherry Coke sucked through a straw. I have been at the movies almost every week of my adult life, but thanks to the pandemic, I have not even thought twice about going back. And I'm not alone. Theatrical attendance has been throttled by the threat of catching the 'rona. First, theaters were closed, then there was limited capacity, and now we have a mixture of both. There have been layoffs, chains shuttering, and the struggle for these places to survive has been treacherous. Now, a number of high profile filmmakers, including James Cameron, Christopher Nolan, Clint Eastwood, Zack Snyder, Steven Soderbergh, Martin Scorsese, M. Night Shyamalan, and Edgar Wright (among many others) have reached out and asked Congress to reallocate funds from the CARES Act proposals to movie theaters across the country. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 1 October, 2020