Monday, February 22, 2021

New York movie theaters set to reopen in March!


With New York City reopening, the studios will hopefully have more confidence to keep their release dates as planned, which is a huge step in the process of recovery for the entire exhibition industry...”

FINALLY.


I’m of two minds about this. 

I knew this day would come sooner or later, and of course I’m thrilled, but at the same time I’m trepidatious. How can I not be? Spending two hours inside an enclosed room, immobile, without outside exposure, with a large amount of strangers who may or may not keep their masks on, is less enticing now than it was last summer when I was so sure I’d go back right away and follow all the social distancing protocols and blah blah blah. 

Spending Thanksgiving and Christmas with small groups of friends prepared me for this moment, I suppose (Virginia and I also went to a museum last fall), but I honestly didn’t think it would come quite so soon. 

I’ll return, but I won’t run right out on the first weekend. 

The bigger takeaway from this, of course, is what this means to the movie industry in general. Local theaters—the chains, indies and revival houses—will stay in business after all. How they’ll compete with the streaming services is another question, but at least they’ll have gotten past the worst of it.

Thoughts?



2 comments:

  1. I don't miss the big theatre chains as much as I miss them for Gavin. He loves going to the movies.

    I do miss the silent movie screenings and the Toronto Silent Film Festival which is usually in the spring and had to be cancelled last year, is looking at autumn dates this year. I want to get out but I am not totally confident given the situation.

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  2. I’ll bet TSFF will make it this year if they come out in the fall.

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