Drive-in theaters in three California locales, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, generated the highest grosses of the weekend. Next weekend, Disney will open in theaters its long-delayed X-Men spinoff “New Mutants,” while “Unhinged” adds some 500 screens to its release. The theater industry hopes to have 70 percent of the nation’s screens open by that date. “Theaters that have been open for a while did better comparatively because people knew they were open,” he said. The chain reopened a portion of its 630 theaters this weekend for the first time.

Source: New York Times August 23, 2020 19:18 UTC