{"id":2946,"date":"2020-08-26T10:02:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T16:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2020-08-26T10:06:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T16:06:57","slug":"its-showtime-at-your-local-movie-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/its-showtime-at-your-local-movie-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Showtime at Your Local Movie Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The motion picture industry has been put on hiatus by the Covid-19 pandemic and theaters that have been closed for many months are only now starting to slowly reopen. With few exceptions, e.g. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2020\/07\/tyler-perry-production-atlanta-sistas-the-oval-quarantine-bubble-1202998473\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Perry&#8217;s studio outside of Atlanta<\/a>, film and TV production has ground to a halt over recent months. To put it in perspective, by this time last year domestic box office had surpassed $11B. This year they are struggling to break $2B. But now, as production is beginning to resume and movie theaters are beginning to reopen, safety protocols are the focus of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/movie-theaters-consumers-safety-standards-89327c6a-96d0-464d-a413-3e6a6c79602d.html\" target=\"_blank\">Axios<\/a>, executives from the largest theater chains are introducing safety protocols that they believe will encourage folks to return to movie theaters. The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemasafe.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CinemaSafe campaign<\/a> is fairly routine stuff, but if all goes well, and Covid-19 cases continue to drop, they&#8217;re hoping that movie buffs will return to being comfortable sitting down with a tub of popcorn to enjoy the big-screen experience. I don&#8217;t know about you, but I&#8217;m looking forward to Christoper Nolan&#8217;s &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AZGcmvrTX9M\" target=\"_blank\">Tenet<\/a>&#8221; set to be released over Labor Day weekend. If you go expect the following: masks, social distancing, reduced capacity (40%-50%), upgraded air filtration systems, and touch-less ticket sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"671\" src=\"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/cinemasafe-1024x671.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/cinemasafe-1024x671.png 1024w, https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/cinemasafe-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/cinemasafe-768x504.png 768w, https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/cinemasafe-1536x1007.png 1536w, https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/cinemasafe-2048x1343.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The motion picture industry has been put on hiatus by the Covid-19 pandemic and theaters that have been closed for many months are only now starting to slowly reopen. With few exceptions, e.g. Tyler Perry&#8217;s studio outside of Atlanta, film and TV production has ground to a halt over recent months. To put it in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/its-showtime-at-your-local-movie-theater\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s Showtime at Your Local Movie Theater&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-media-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2949,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions\/2949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}