Kathyn Dennet, center, and Brian Haver leave the IFC Center after viewing a screening on "Mank", Friday, March 5, 2021, in New York.
Theaters in many other areas reopened last summer around the release of Christopher Nolanโs โTenet,โ but that attempted comeback fizzled.
โItโs a symbolic moment,โ said Michael Barker, co-president of the New York-based Sony Pictures Classics, which on Friday released the Oscar contenders โThe Fatherโ and โThe Truffle Huntersโ in Manhattan theaters.
Some of the cityโs prominent theaters, including the Film Forum, the Alamo Drafthouse, the Metrograph and Regal Cinemas were targeting openings in the coming weeks.
โWe in the movie theater business live off of movies that play all around the country and all around the world.