UKCA's Phil Clapp on the Second Return of UK Movie Theaters

In this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, co-hosts Russ Fischer, Daniel Loria, and Rebecca Pahle talk about the top five box office titles of this past weekend, with The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard topping the charts in its first weekend of release. Updates on Arclight/Pacific’s closure is followed by the episode’s main feature: a conversation between Loria and UNIC and UKCA’s Phil Clapp on the status of U.K. cinemas as they emerge from their second round of closures.

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Episode Resources:

• CinemaCon 2021

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:36 The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard opens at 11.6M weekend gross
• 03:54 Pacific Theaters filed for Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy code
• 07:13 The Beatles: Get Back will debut as a 3-part series on Disney Plus
• 08:52 Hotel Transylvania: Transformania is moved to debut on October 1st
• 11:20 UK cinemas were able to reopen mid-May
• 13:27 Safeguarding and welcoming of audiences were properly handled
• 16:44 There’s a form of general business support from the government
• 21:03 The movie industry is huge ecosystem that includes hourly-wage earners
• 23:42 Social distancing and 50% capacity limits are still being implemented
• 28:42 Ensuring that the foundations are in place and continuously helping small theaters
• 31:52 CinemaCon registration is open!