This story contains original reporting by Kara Seymour "This is not a decision we made lightly, and we did everything in our power to support safe and sustainable reopenings in all of our markets - including meeting, and often exceeding, local health and safety guidelines in our theaters and working constructively with regulators and industry bodies to restore public confidence in our industry," said Cineworld CEO Mooky Greidinger.Īpart from North Brunswick, in New Jersey Regal Cinemas has locations in Burlington, Turnersville, Moorestown, South Plainfield, Hamilton, Sewell, Vineland, Mays Landing, Manahawkin and Phillipsburg.
The situation will be monitored closely, the company said, noting it would communicate any future plans to resume operations at the appropriate time, "when key markets have more concrete guidance on their reopening status and, in turn, studios are able to bring their pipeline of major releases back to the big screen." The company explained that studios have been reluctant to release their pipeline of new films.Īs such, Regal is unable to have a "breadth of strong commercial films necessary for them to consider coming back to theatres against the backdrop of COVID-19," Cineworld said in its statement.Īpproximately 45,000 employees will be impacted by the closures.
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