Originally Posted by
ClanAskani
Outside of the US, theaters are moving forward with reopening. Even domestically (US and Canada), over 1,000 theaters are now open. The top movie this weekend was Empire Strikes Back, so theaters are doing okay for the time being with old movies which are fun to see at drive-ins.
Studios are going to have a choice to make about whether to release some movies overseas before their US premieres. That won't be Tenet or Wonder Woman. They have contracts with their international partners and can't tell them there isn't anything to release because theaters are closed in Los Angeles. The question is whether New Mutants falls into that category of something studios are willing to essentially give out to make sure they have something to release or not.
Los Angeles County staying closed is inevitable. The numbers keep going up. Same with much of the rest of Southern California except for Ventura. But theaters in London are going to be reopening in a few weeks. Other major cities around the world are reopening theaters. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
And Disney World did reopen. It's currently open while Florida has hit the largest number of new cases in a single day and isn't closing.