Between Dune, The French Dispatch and The Harder They Fall, October 22 goes to be a hell of a weekend at the films. As famous back in May, Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead was heralded/anointed as a giant deal partially as a outcome of it got a week-long theatrical run in round 600 Cinemark theaters. Sure, it solely earned round $800,000 theatrically, but it was at all times intended to be a glorified advertising device and a method to say that, say, Army of the Dead was a a lot bigger deal than the “bought from Disney/20th Century Pictures” Amy Adams thriller Woman in the Window. I may idealistically argue that streamers, even Netflix, could start utilizing theatrical releases, even an unique theatrical window, to implicitly separate the wheat from the chaff. Right now, summer season blockbusters — the Marvel movies, the “Fast and the Furious” saga and so many different big pictures we’d see proper now — stay hidden behind studios’ film reels.
Starting this week, movie theaters in Minnesota can also apply for up to $150,000 in COVID-19 relief grants, as part of the state’s lately handed small business aid package deal. “When you go to …