Cinemas are allowed to reopen from July 4. So why aren’t they doing it?
Yesterday was meant to be Super Saturday for the cinema industry too. Amid a flurry of openings – pubs, restaurants, hairdressers – movie theatres were also meant to be throwing open their doors to eager film fans from this weekend. But a lot of them just aren’t.
Two of the UK’s biggest cinema chains – Cineworld and Vue – were originally supposed to open from July 10, but have now pushed back that date until the end of the month. Odeon is opening a handful of locations in England this weekend, but the majority of its venues won’t be open for another few weeks. Smaller independent cinemas are likely to remain closed for even longer – possibly until the end of the summer.