(Cleveland) - Greater Cleveland's best-known locally-owned chain of movie theaters will be turning off the projectors for a few weeks. Cleveland Cinemas is closing the Cedar-Lee Theatre, and Chagrin Cinemas until Christmas Day. They cite a variety of reasons, but this is at a time when the statewide 10 p.m. curfew is expected to be continued when it expires on Thursday.
Cleveland Cinemas will continue to offer private showings at both theaters on weekends for groups of 20, for $149 plus concessions. They are also offering some movies through a virtual screening room.
The other Cleveland Cinemas theaters, the Capitol in Gordon Square, and the Apollo in Oberlin, closed at the start of the pandemic in March, and have not reopened.
There's no shortage of movie theaters open in Greater Cleveland, as screens operated by Cinemark, AMC, Atlas Cinemas, and Silverspot, are still open for business.
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