Rules posted on its Facebook page explain the COVID-19 safety measures It is running at half capacity, with one car allowed between two speaker poles. Ford-Wyoming reopened June 3.ĭrive-ins are experiencing a resurgence in popularity, but numbers on exactly how much they're earning aren't easily accessible.Ī co-owner of the fifth top-grossing theater named by Deadline - the Aut-O-Rama Twin Drive-In of North Ridgeville, Illinois - told that business has been good, but that the $60,100 gross cited by the online site was "about three times what we actually did."įord-Wyoming has five screens and a 1,700-car capacity. On June 1, Whitmer lifted the stay-home order ahead of schedule.
Days before, the order had been extended to June 12. More: Dearborn's Ford-Wyoming drive-in theater shut down again by policeĮmagine Royal Oak, a multiplex in suburban Detroit, announced plans last week to launch a Juneteenth Film Festival in defiance of state orders, but it scrapped the event a day before it was to begin.Įmagine Entertainment said it was cancelling because the Department of Attorney General had given notice that continuing with the festival would result in criminal charges.įord-Wyoming reopened it doors on May 28 - the day the governor's order originally was set to expire - and was promptly told to cease and desist by the Dearborn police. More: Emagine postpones Juneteenth festival after legal threat, chairman slams Whitmer Gretchen Whitmer's orders aimed at limiting the pandemic's spread.
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Indoor movie theaters remain closed in Michigan under Gov. The potential blockbusters arrive later in the month with Disney's live-action version of "Mulan" coming July 24 and the sci-fi drama "Tenet" slated for July 31. New releases are scheduled to return in July, beginning July 10 with the thriller "Unhinged" starring Russell Crowe. While indoor movie theaters are starting to open their doors nationally, they continue to face a lack of new movies from Hollywood, which stopped its pipeline in March when the threat of COVID-19 prompted massive shutdowns of businesses. Representatives of the Ford-Wyoming declined to comment. It reported that a whopping 160 of the top-grossing 201 cinemas were drive-ins.īy comparison, the highest-earning indoor multiplexes were the Megaplex Theatres in South Jordan, Utah, with $14,600 and the Palladium 19 in San Antonio, Texas, with $14,600. The rest of the top five theaters - one in the Canadian province of Quebec, two in California, and one in Ohio - also were drive-ins.ĭeadline, an online entertainment news site, credited an unidentified industry report for its figures. Of the locations actually open at this stage of the coronavirus pandemic, the historic outdoor venue in Detroit was number one with $127,300 in box-office business, according to Deadline. But now it's got another kudo: top-grossing movie theater in the country over the weekend. At 70, the Ford-Wyoming Drive-In in Dearborn deserves respect just for its seniority.
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