The 2020 edition of the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado is still happening, despite growing concerns in an industry that has this year seen festivals shutter left and right. This year’s 47th edition of the festival will kick off on Thursday, September 3. That’s a day earlier than its usual launch on the first month of September in Friday, over the Labor Day weekend. The festival was originally set to take place September 4 through 7. This year’s edition of the festival will include an additional day of free film screenings at the Herzog Theatre. The closing picnic, however, is still set for Monday, September 7.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed Thursday announced that the city’s stage-three reopening, which includes cinemas, is tentatively set for mid-August. The plan affects only those theaters within the boundaries of the city of San Francisco, which accounts for about 900,000 people in a metropolitan area of about 4.8 million. For a normal, first-run wide release, that would mean just five theaters out of about 4,000 in North America

Only one in five British people say they are willing to go to movie theaters when they reopen in July, according to new research. More than 1,200 movie theaters are now open worldwide, up 500% on the low point of about 200 theaters on April 25, Lucy Jones, executive director of Comscore Movies, said. This month and July will see many more territories opening their venues. Whereas theaters in England are expected to open on July 4. It is unclear when the rest of the U.K. will open their cinemas, although it is likely to be later in July. In the Republic of Ireland cinemas will open on Aug.

With the State of Emergency lifted in Japan, various businesses in the capital city are reopening, with slight changes and various policies to combat COVID-19. Toho Cinemas, one of the biggest cinema chains in Japan, will be reopening its flagship theaters in Tokyo this week