Hurricane Ian Forces 80 Film Theaters To Shut In Florida – Deadline

With Hurricane Ian enroute to hit Southern Florida within the morning, Deadline hears near 80 film theaters have closed all through the Tampa, Orlando, North Florida Panhandle and southwestern a part of the state.

This contains such properties because the spruced up Regal Naples, the Regal Hollywood 18, the AMC Veterans Expressway 24 in Tampa, the AMC Woodlands Sq. 20 in Oldsmar, the Regal Gulf Coast in Fort Myers, amongst a number of others. Many have already got closed right now to attend out this massive storm, which is seeing greater than 2.5 million ordered to evacuate the state, the latter stat in response to CNN.

And it’s not simply film theaters that closed — most grocery shops too. Large Florida chain Publix is closing down shops in 11 counties efficient 6PM EST tonight together with Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Hernando, Hillsborough, Lake, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas and Sarasota.

Walt Disney World and Common already reported that they’ll be closing throughout this week.

Hurricane Ian stays a 120 mph, Class 3 storm per CNN and by the point it hits land tomorrow may wind up a Class 4. Additionally per the information community, 30K employees from 23 states are being dispatched to assist Florida with energy restoration. Ian has already hit Cuba.

Sometimes when Florida will get hit with a hurricane, it doesn’t dent field workplace {dollars} that a lot. Don’t Fear Darling grossed a stable $1.66M yesterday taking its 4-day whole to $21M. ‘The Olivia Wilde-directed style pic is on the right track to make $2M right now, on par with Lady King’s first Tuesday. The pic is anticipated to ease round 55% this coming weekend as Paramount’s horror film Smile spots a excessive teenagers begin, and Common’s Billy Eichner LGBTQ romantic comedy Bros eyes a excessive single digits begin.