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Wildhorse 6 Stadium Cinemas General Manager Brent Almon hangs a new poster for the Disney movie, Cruella , which is expected to show during the movie theater’s reopening targeted for Memorial Day weekend. (Photo by Suzie Romig)
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS Wildhorse 6 Stadium Cinemas General Manager Brent Almon is looking forward to being able to rehire his furloughed employees before the sole movie theater in Routt County reopens again, hopefully on Memorial Day weekend.
The theater that often provides the first job experience for a crew of as many as 20 teenagers and young adults has been closed since November 2020. The theater was hit with double trouble dealing with a pandemic as well as a burst water pipe due to a late winter cold snap that damaged flooring and some electrical wiring in the empty building.
“We are hoping for late May,” said David Corwin, president of Los Angeles-based Metropolitan Theaters
, which operates the Isis Theater. “We are gradually getting it together.”
The Isis closed initially in mid-March 2020 when the pandemic hit, and then re-opened in August only to shut down again in November.
Since the novel coronavirus swept across the world just over a year ago, the movie industry has changed significantly with a larger focus on online and on-demand streaming, and less production for the big screen.
Many new releases have been postponed as production companies are waiting for theaters to reopen.
“There’s not a lot of significant product left so we are guided by what’s going to be available,” Corwin said. “There’s not much between now and late May.”
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