Movie Ticket Sales Fall to Historic Low

The coronavirus pandemic hurt new films like “Bloodshot” and “The Hunt.” But the
faith-based “I Still Believe” found an audience.

The general idea

The mind-sets of moviegoers about coronavirus pandemic intensifies is that God
beat a superhero at the weekend box office.
Apparently, every activity of American life has been disrupted by the coronavirus
pandemic and go to the cinema has been no exception. Some cinemas in the United
States remain open, but that reducing seating capacity in auditoriums by 50%, so
that people could leave at least one empty seat between them. That means that the
fears about coronavirus kept the masses at home and that has drained 44 percent
of profits last week, despite three new films: Bloodshot, The Hunt and I Still
Believe.
The result: Hollywood may have just had its worst weekend since ticketing data
started to be independently compiled in the 1980s.

Specific ideas of each paragraph

It was the worst period for movie theaters in two decades, according to Comscore,
which compiles box office data. The next lowest weekend was Sept. 15 to 17 in
2000, and the primary draws were holdovers like “The Watcher,” a serial-killer
movie, and “Nurse Betty,” a dark comedy starring Renée Zellweger.
“This weekend’s three new wide releases were not expected to do big business,”
David A. Gross, who runs Franchise Entertainment Research, a movie consultancy,
said in an email on Sunday. “Still, these openings are down 30 percent or more
from where they would be under normal circumstances.”
The No. 1 movie was a holdover: “Onward,” the Disney-Pixar fantasy about two elf
brothers who have an accident with magic, this movie had a 73 percent drop in
winnings from its first to second weekend, demonstrating the impact of
coronavirus fears on moviegoing.
Overseas, where theaters have been closed in some countries in Europe and Asia.
In a surprise (at least for Hollywood) an under-the-radar new release rooted in
religion, “I Still Believe,” sold the most tickets of the newcomers, and is based on
the true story of the Christian singer-songwriter Jeremy Camp and his first wife
Melissa Henning-Camp, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer while on their
honeymoon.