Canyon News UNITED STATES—A dismal jolt shook L.A.’s cinephilic community last week when the Pacific Theater Corporation announced that it had choked during the locked-down as a result of the COVID economy. It was a bracing jolt of reality, a reflection of families and individuals beyond measure, who endure unimaginable pain in silence due to the unprecedented pandemic shutdown, in the midst of a giddy reawakening. Now to their pain is added the betrayal felt by film lovers and the Los Angeles based movie theater chain’s employees, who have been terminated. “This was not the outcome anyone wanted,” a corporate bulletin drily announced.