The North American box office is resuming after an unprecedented five-month shutdown due to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, from Solstice Theaters. They are the first new Hollywood releases to open wide since the pandemic forced cinemas to close their doors in March.
In the U.S., the big chains have delayed reopening several times due to a surge in COVID-19 cases, but are now beginning to switch the lights on in advance of new product.expects to have a sizeable footprint when opening in the U.S. on Aug. 21, while even more cinemas will be open in time Christopher Nolan’s tentpoleearned an estimated $900,000 from 300 runs in Canada, where theaters are operating at 50 percent capacity as part of new protocols being implemented because of coronavirus .
"Any way you slice it in my opinion, people did show up and that is a good thing as we have to start somewhere on the road to recovery," says one top executive at a rival studio. He cautions that making judgments about grosses is difficult because there are no comparisons in the age of the"new normal."
Solstice distribution chief Shari Hardison says that drive-ins made up the biggest portion of the ticket sales for. In terms of indoor cinemas, theaters in Canadian suburbs outperformed locations in the major cities."We always knew this would be a slow burn," says Solstice CEO Mark Gill.drives into the U.S. next week, about 50 percent of theaters will be open in 42 states, followed by 75 percent the following weekend.
On Sunday, Comscore reported box office grosses for the first time since March, although it isn’t yet ranking films. In the U.S., a myriad of independent films are playing in a smattering of smaller cinema chains which have been able to reopen, along with drive-ins., starring Shia LaBeouf continued to do well in its second weekend, earning $203,722 from 101 theaters for a cume of $634,145 for RLJE films.
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