Compounding the misery for cinema owners is the fact that film studios have responded by putting films only very recently released in cinemas online.
Recent blockbusters like The Invisible Man have now been made available on demand mere weeks after their cinema release There was no single moment during the flu outbreak when all the cinemas in the UK shut, and some jurisdictions simply imposed mitigating measures. In London, cinemas were required to be ventilated for 30 minutes every three hours. Those in Wolverhampton banned children and removed carpets. A Walsall cinema showed a 15-minute public information film that featured a Dr Wise and a foolish patient.
Cinemas were encouraged to open around Armistice Day, however, and a week of packed cinemas and celebrations followed – apart from in Edinburgh where influenza restrictions were kept in force. The film journal Kineweeklythat “there was a feeling that it was the hardest of hard luck that what should have been a record week was one of several which will rank as one of the most disastrous in the history of every house.
However, it should give us cheer to note that while the film industry in America was certainly impacted, it did not suffer overall but rather changed shape – and in fact flourished even further.
The invention of VHS tapes was seen as a danger to cinemas, but in fact it only served to enhance the value of the big-screen experience
There has been a horrific earthquake in the Eastern Med....and it comes 5th on the 5pm BBC News...after the death of an old footballer. For FUCK sake, get your priorities right!!!
Well the Oscars will a short ceremony next time round...
Fair play to him, wish him all the best.....
horrible