VANCOUVER With COVID-19 numbers dropping and the pace of vaccinations picking up, B.C.’s movie theatres are urging the province to let them open their doors in time to screen big summer blockbusters. “We have
Fast and Furious, a
Bond movie, a
Top Gun movie, through the summer and fall, there’s
Black Widow,” said Landmark Cinema’s CEO, Bill Walker. “The unfortunate reality for Canada is we are going to miss some of those.” Movie theatres have been closed since November, when they were included in the provincial health officer’s ban on indoor events. “I’m very concerned with Bonnie Henry’s use of the word event. She uses it to define a sweeping amount of different activities, and we have repeatedly asked that we be taken out of the event category,” said Rio Theatre owner Corinne Lea.
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Corinne Lea has overcome a lot of adversity since taking ownership of the Rio Theatre in 2008. She started off by fighting to get an antiquated law from 1920 changed so the venue could acquire a liquor licence in 2012 the first for a movie theatre in B.C. Then, in 2018, when the property was put up for sale and there was a good chance it would be torn down and replaced with condos, she campaigned to raise enough money $8 million to buy it.