Cinemas in the U.K. will not open before July 4. This was the date laid out Monday as part of the government's new COVID-19 recovery guideline, a 50-page document titled "Our Plan to Rebuild." Movie theaters, which have been shut since the week of March 23, were listed among the "high-risk" group of businesses alongside other leisure facilities, hospitality venues such as pubs and restaurants, places of worship and personal care businesses such as hairdressers.
These will be the last to reopen, no earlier than July 4, the government said. But even then they will need to meet strict COVID-19 guidelines. "Some venues which are, by design, crowded and where it may prove difficult to enact distancing may still not be able to re-open safely at.