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Cinemas to reopen in Maharashtra from Thursday with 50% capacity

No eatables permitted, can run only outside containment zones

Watch: Special show for corona warriors, new normal for cinema halls

Cinemas in several parts of the country opened after almost seven months on Thursday, ushering in a new era of contactless' movie watching in the shadow of a pandemic with alternate seating, 50 per cent capacity and packaged snacks. While theatres and multiplexes will remain closed in states like Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Chhattisgarh, they opened in several places, including Delhi and parts of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, with stringent dos and don'ts in keeping with the new Covid-19 normal.

Unlock 5.0: Cinema halls get ready to open, guidelines to be adhered to

The SOPs include one0-seat distance in theatres, 50 per cent capacity, masks at all times, proper ventilation and air conditioner temperature settings at above 23 degrees Celsius

BookMyShow adds safety shield tag for safe movie-watching experience

BookMyShow has added a new safety shield tag to help create awareness about the various safety and hygiene measures available across various properties listed on the platform

Veteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee tests positive for Covid-19

Veteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, health officials said

Robert Pattinson starrer 'The Batman' release pushed to 2022

The much-anticipated superhero film 'The Batman' will no longer hit theatres in 2021

S P Balasubrahmanyam on life support, extremely critical: Hospital

Balasubrahmanyam, popularly known as SPB admitted on August 5, "remains on ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) and other life support measures," MGM Healthcare said.

Theatres returned but audiences didn't. What next for cinema in Covid era?

After five months of pandemic-forced closure, the big movie theater chains reopened in roughly 68 percent of the United States

WB govt announces financial assistance for single-screen cinema halls

The West Bengal government has announced financial assistance of Rs 2 lakh to single screen- cinema halls which suffered extensive damage to property caused by cyclone Amphan

Govt, media became part of solution to problem posed by Covid-19: Naqvi

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that in times of crisis, govt, society, cinema, and media in India act as "four bodies, one soul", and in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic they became a part of the solution

Animal instinct

Gaav inspires reflection on widely held, and poorly judged, ideas of what it is to be and appear and behave 'human'

Priyanka Chopra, Anurag Kashyap among ambassadors for virtual TIFF 2020

The festival, slated to run from September 10 to September 19, will be opting for digital screenings and virtual red carpets

How an inherently collaborative film industry will adapt to the time

Many in the business of cinema are cautiously excited as the industry receives the green signal to restart work.

How Holocaust-era film The Shop on the High Street frames fascism

A surreal happy ending and a final tragic one coexist in The Shop on the High Street, which benefits from intellectual honesty and thoughtfully edited frames

India's oldest multiplex finally pauses for breath, closed for six months

Virtually every film buff in the city has an Anupam story, of standing for hours in line to buy a ticket for the latest Hollywood or Bollywood film

Creepy cinema

The Telluride Horror Show, a three-day event showcasing the latest movies from across the world in the always excellent genres of horror and thriller

Decoding 'woman-oriented' popular cinema

Raazi and Veere Di Wedding are just two films that have worked. There is nothing more to be read into them

Denver cinema

It's heartwarming to see new foreign cinema being shown at every American city, says J Jagannath

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