Korea, the world’s fifth largest box office market, is re-opening a portion of its major cinemas this week after a soft-ish shutdown last month. One of the first new titles in the mix will be Unive…
in late March, major exhibitor CGV is set to turn the lights back on in 36 theaters including those in central Seoul, and with social distancing measures. CGV had closed 35 of its 116 sites nationwide last month.
The Yonhap news agency cites a CGV official saying, “We will restart operations in a bid to overcome the crisis by revitalizing the virus-hit film industry and our neighborhood economy.” Lotte is also planning to open some sites.crisis, recently screening such beloved older titles asmovies. However, given COVID-19 concerns, the market’s box office fell to an all-time low of just 1.83M admissions in March, versus 14.67M in the same month last year.
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