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Wildfires Shutter Handful Of Los Angeles Cinemas, Weekend Box Office To Be Impacted
The Pacific Palisades wildfire is forcing around ten cinemas to close. Box office is expected to be down in Los Angeles, the No. 1 market in the U.S.
In the core of the Pacific Palisades wildfire is the historic Bay Theater, which is owned by local real estate developer and mayoral candidate Rick Caruso, and operated and booked by Netflix. With evacuation orders in place for various parts of the city, as well as those in safe zones being encouraged to stay off the roads, the sentiment for moviegoing this week, and into this weekend, for a market which grossed over $681M last year, and reps some 8% of the total domestic box office, doesn’t look good. The movie from The Greatest Showman filmmaker Michael Gracey has been in exclusive LA & NYC release since Christmas Day and counts a running total just under $100K.
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