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Regal Cinemas confirms it will close all 500 of its US theaters in a move that will affect 40,000 employees as the pandemic ravages the movie industry

Rob Kim/Getty ImagesThe closures means approximately 40,000 Regal employees will not be able to work.

Shares of Regal's parent company, Cineworld, plunged 40% in trading Monday following the announcement. With virtually no new movies to show at its theaters — and a coronavirus outbreak that shows no signs of slowing — Regal Cinemas on Mondaythat it will shutter all of its US locations beginning Thursday, October 8.

Shares of the Cineworld, Regal's parent company, plunged as much as 40% following its announcement of the new closures Monday. In aexecutives pinned the closures on a lack of new film releases amid the pandemic. It also sought to separate stubbornly high COVID-19 case numbers in the US from its decision.

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That stock market though......🙄

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