, which opens on Christmas Day. But that timing created a huge problem for Canadian moviegoers. As of the beginning of December, only about 40% of Cineplex’s 164 locations in Canada were open, with all sites in Vancouver, Toronto, Manitoba and Quebec shuttered.Article content continued
But Canada’s what-about-us response was hardly the only pushback to Warner’s plan. U.S. cinema chains are understandably reluctant to allow anything that cuts into their bottom line, although with that line all but gone this year, they’re acquiescing, some more quietly than others.Adam Aron, the head of the AMC cinema chain in the U.S.