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Theater news. IFC Film, a VO streaming channel is launching “The Indie Theater Revival Project,” an initiate to support its hater partners as they reopen for audiences in the coming month The company has put together 20 curated retrospective programs, featuring approximately 200 films spanning IFC Films’ 20-year history, and will make them available to cinemas across the US. No film rental will be due for these special engagements. Theaters can sign up for the project and get more information on the IFCFilms site.

Meanwhile in Georgia... We are not going to open on Monday, and we don’t have any plans as to when we would,” says Brandt Gully, owner of The Springs Cinema & Taphouse, near Atlanta. “Even if we wanted to, we wouldn’t be ready. It just doesn’t feel socially responsible to me to go out there to try to grab a few bucks.” Ciné, an art-house theater in Athens, Ga., also has no plans to immediately recommence business. “We’re basing our opening on the data and science,” says Pamela Kohn, the executive director. “Georgia hasn’t seen a downward trend of cases for 14 days.” At the Plaza Theatre in Atlanta, owner Chris Escobar says “You have to have movies to show,” Escobar says. “Second, you have to have people willing to come in.” In a statement, the National Association of Theatre Owners, the exhibition industry’s lobbying arm, noted that even if theaters open in Georgia or other states, the movie business is a national one. The major chains — AMC, Regal and Cinemark — have not yet commented publicly on their plans in Georgia. But insiders say they aren’t eager to reopen either...