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About 60% of the movie theaters in the country — though not the major chains — would be in line for several billion dollars in grants if Congress can agree on a coronavirus stimulus package. Negotiations on a bill were jumpstarted on Tuesday, when a bipartisan group of senators offered a $908 billion plan. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell circulated his own framework that would provide about $500 billion. Both proposals include $15 billion for live event venues and movie theaters, aides on both sides of the aisle confirmed to Variety. So while the sides remain apart on several other issues, there is broad agreement about bailing out theaters, restaurants and music venues.

British Columbia’s film industry is a multibillion-dollar concern, and, along with travel, is one of the most significant pillars of the province’s economy. According to the Vancouver Economic Commission, more than $3.1 billion was related to the entertainment industry’s spending in the province in 2019.

The movie theater has always been a casual place in modern America. While people may have dressed up to go to the movie palaces of old, that rarely happens anymore. But could it happen again? It seems unlikely that brand new movies will completely cease to be presented on the big screen, but there just won't be a need to see them that way, even if you want to be among the first to do so. This means that actually deciding to go out to the movie theater could become a much rarer choice for a night out, and perhaps it could also become a more formal one. (Courtesy Dirk Libbey)

Uruguay’s government has announced new and ambitious film-TV legislation aimed at converting the small Latin American nation into a far larger film-TV hub via a new series of cash rebates for international shoots and co-productions with Uruguay. Coming as Uruguay neighbors Brazil and Argentina battle huge challenges to state film funding – an incentive free in Brazil, a decimation of state funding in Argentina tanks to COVID-19 – the new regulation in Uruguay looks set to accelerate a disappear of productions from Latin America and runaway international shoots to its shores.