Inside the Wynne Twin Cinema, work continues even during the midst of a global pandemic.
#SILVER SCREEN CINEMA CABOT AR MOVIE#
Around the world, movie theaters are adapting - or closing - due to the pandemic. The high times came to a screeching halt in March 2020. You’re talking $42 billion in global box office in 2019,” he said. However, it was still a healthy year with a total of $11.4 billion at the box office.Īccording to National Theater Owners Association (NATO) director of media and research Phil Contrino, the industry was well-positioned as it moved into 2020 and was performing well in the early months. box office actually declined in 2019 after a record year in 2018, in which the industry raked in $11.9 billion. 2019 was the highest global box office haul with $42.5 billion in ticket receipts, up from the previous record of $41.7 billion, established in 2018. and global box offices had been breaking records in recent years. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has posed an existential threat to the future of the big-screen theatrical experience.īefore the pandemic struck, the movie theater industry was riding high. Whether seeking pure spectacle, formal brilliance or something in between, moviegoers could find it at theaters, which have always been there to offer a dream factory, whether in celluloid or digital. Movie theaters have been a place of respite for some, a sacred space for cinematic art for others. and nations worldwide in the 1960s and 1970s as they watched the Twin Towers fall on a fateful September morning and as they saw the rise of new technologies that could spell the end for movie exhibition as we know it today. Movie theaters were there for viewers as they witnessed the horrors of World War I and the Spanish Flu as they lived it up during the heyday of the Roaring Twenties as they struggled through the depths of the Great Depression and came out on the other side of World War II, entering a new, post-atomic age as they rebuilt in a postwar economic boom as they witnessed revolutionary spirit grip the U.S. Moviegoers have flocked to theaters to watch films on the silver screen with little interruption, ever since the first theater in the United States dedicated to motion pictures was established in 1902 in Los Angeles. Since the early 20th century, movies have been a constant, providing escape and entertainment for millions around the globe.
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