U.S. movie theaters prepare to switch the lights back on, but hurdles remain


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  • Friday, 26 Jun 2020

FILE PHOTO: Grand Lake Theater, known as Oakland’s Historic Movie Palace, seen two days after California’s Governor Gavin Newsom implemented a state wide "stay at home order" directing the state’s 40 million residents to stay in their homes for the foreseeable future in the face of the fast-spreading coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Oakland, California, U.S. March 21, 2020. Picture taken March 21, 2020. REUTERS/Kate Munsch/File Photo

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When the 60-person Arena Cinelounge in Los Angeles opens again for the first time in months, more than a dozen seats will be filled by cardboard cutouts of James Dean, Charlie Chaplin and other Hollywood icons.

The seating arrangement, designed to encourage social distancing among the 15 real-life patrons who will be allowed into each screening, is one of the new safety measures theaters are putting in place to reduce the chance of coronavirus spread.

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