As China makes progress battling its coronavirus outbreak, Imax CEO Richard Gelfond sees increasing signs that the country's exhibition sector — shuttered since Jan.
23 — could begin to turn its lights back on. "I'm hoping — and a lot of this is subject to biology — that by June things will be somewhat more normal over there," Gelfond tellsThe Hollywood Reporter.
With China home to more than 700 Imax theaters — roughly half of the giant-screen exhibitor's global network — Gelfond has monitored the coronavirus outbreak's devastating impact on the global exhibition industry for longer than most. "While that doesn't make it less painful, it does make it less shocking.
Read more on hollywoodreporter.com