'We are seeing that people will come out for a specific movie, but it isn’t a return to the same habit [of movie-going] they had pre-pandemic,' Eric Marti, a European analyst for box office research group Comscore, says
Governments in Denmark and The Netherlands closed all cinemas this past weekend in response to a sharp rise in-19 cases and Ireland imposed an 8 p.m.
curfew for theaters, bringing cinemas in line with coronavirus restrictions already in place there for bars and restaurants. The Dutch government plans to keep the country in lockdown until Jan. 14, Denmark’s new restrictions will keep theaters shut until Jan. 17.
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