This follows government suggestions that cinemas would reopen in July Over 200 independent film venues across the UK have said in a new survey that they could not reopen with social distancing measures still in place.
In a new survey carried out by the Independent Cinema Office, 497 venues responded on their future in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Forty-one per cent of respondents said they would be unable to resume business while enforcing social distancing, despite the government suggesting cinemas could reopen from July 4.
The survey said that many venues “feel pressure from the commercial sector and the industry as a whole to open when it is not actually financially viable, practical or even safe to do so.” Twenty-three per
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