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VANCOUVER On Saturday, the Rio Theatre opened its doors for the first time as a sports bar. Household groups, dressed in hockey gear, were spaced out in the theatre to watch the Canucks game. Earlier in the week, owner Corinne Lea announced the venue would be using its existing liquor license to become a sports bar. Under the current provincial rules, bars and restaurants can be open, but movie theatres cannot. “We’re just doing what we can to stay alive,” Lea said Saturday. “This whole decision of keeping cinemas closed is wrong.” Other small theatres across Vancouver have also had to change their business to stay afloat. The Dunbar Theatre has never closed because of the pandemic. It moved straight to private screenings and offering up food and drink through food delivery apps.
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Published Friday, January 1, 2021 9:31AM EST TORONTO If anything is certain about the future of movie theatres in 2021, it s that nobody can be certain about anything. After a year that saw Canada s film exhibition industry roiled by the COVID-19 pandemic, industry observers say the country s cinemas are sitting at a critical juncture with no clear path forward. Most theatres across the country were dark over the usually bustling holiday movie season, as they were for the majority of the year in many major markets. The few screens that continued operating did so at a fraction of their usual capacity. Some say sustained closures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 could spell doom for the movie theatre business, which has been battered in recent years as ticket sales declined and streaming giants like Netflix chased the same audience.