Chinese online ticketing service Maoyan Entertainment released a report Tuesday suggesting that moviegoers in the Middle Kingdom are growing more and more eager to return to cinemas after nearly three months of coronavirus-forced closures.
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Over 500 cinemas in the country had re-opened their doors over the last week
China has ordered all of its cinemas to close once again as it continues to battle the coronavirus, reports say.
Last week, the first cinema in China re-opened its doors after closing in January. “We can’t stay closed forever,” a representative for the Zhongying Golden Palm Cinema in Urumqi told Chinese media.
Almost 500 cinemas had re-opened this week, but now sources tell Deadline that they have all been now ordered
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