JENNY RUTH: Will covid-19 sound death knell for movie theatres?

Sat, 25 Apr 2020

Movie theatres are dead! That's the umpteenth time in recent memory the industry's death knell has been sounded, this time because of the coronavirus crisis, which has forced the closure of cinemas around the world. The chief analyst at US-based research firm RiskHedge, Stephen McBride, has declared covid-19 will wipe out a number of industries, not just for the duration of the crisis, but also for good. "Filmmaker Universal detonated a nuclear bomb in Hollywood" when its children's film, Trolls 2, became the first mainstream movie to be...

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