Japan Cinemas Halt Advanced Ticket Sales in Anticipation of Theater Shutdown
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variety.comMark Schilling Japan CorrespondentAnticipating that the Japanese government may again call for movie theaters to temporarily close in Greater Tokyo due to an upsurge of coronavirus cases, Toho Cinemas and other leading exhibitors are halting sales of advance tickets for cinemas in the areas.
In recent years Japan has been the world’s third most valuable theatrical market behind North America and China.Toho Cinemas, the nation’s largest chain, said in a Monday statement that it would stop accepting orders for tickets sales beyond two days in advance and that from Jan.
8, 2021 it would only sell same-day tickets for the theaters in Tokyo and neighboring Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures.
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