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5 Years Ago, The Pandemic Shut Down Movie Theaters - And They Never Fully Recovered

Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic forced movie theaters to shut down, the theatrical industry and Hollywood at large are facing an uncertain future.

As a result, by March 20, 2020, thanks to widespread stay-at-home orders, virtually every movie theater in North America — and throughout much of the world — was forced to close its doors temporarily. Hollywood had offered signs that this pandemic was very serious, with the "James Bond" movie "No Time to Die" delaying its global release in early March, which was no small thing. VOD had been a thing for years, but when theaters shut down, studios released movies that had their runs at the box office cut short at home for $20 to rent.

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