Around 40 Florida Movie Theaters Shutter As Hurricane Helene Nears Landfall
deadline.comClose to 40 AMC, Cinemark and Regal multiplexes are closed throughout Florida as the state braces for Hurricane Helene to hit landfall as a Category 4 with a force of 130 mph.
Theaters from as far south as Fort Myers, Florida to as far north as Tallahassee, are shuttered. Their tentative re-opening date is tomorrow, Friday Sept.
27. The major movies opening this weekend are DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot and Lionsgate’s Megalopolis. Hurricane-force winds at 74 mph are expected per Weather.com to stretch into Florida’s Panhandle northward into southern and middle Georgia tonight, possibly as far north as the Atlanta metro area.
Downed trees and power outages are expected to be widespread and will no doubt impact cinema reopenings. Per CNN, there were more than 225,000 homes and businesses without power in Florida.
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