July 23, 2020 | 1: 37pm

AMC, the arena’s greatest movie theater chain, is delaying its reopening all another time as Hollywood studios attach at bay the free up of their deliberate summer season blockbusters.

The firm said Thursday that it obtained’t resume stamp sales at its US theaters unless “mid-to-late August” attributable to the truth that there are no longer any new motion footage to deliver. AMC had been planning on a phased reopening kicking off July 15 with the hope of being fully operational by July 24, nonetheless pushed abet the thought July 30 late closing month.

The most new prolong comes factual days after Warner Bros. indefinitely postponed the free up of its mountainous-budget search movie, “Tenet,” which had been slated to hit theaters on August 12. Warner Bros. cited spikes in coronavirus cases across the US for the switch.

“This new timing reflects currently anticipated free up dates for a ways anticipated blockbusters love Warner Bros.’ ‘Tenet’ and Disney’s ‘Mulan,’ as well as free up dates for several varied new motion footage,” the firm in an announcement.

Disney’s “Mulan,” the subsequent blockbuster on the calendar, is slated for the mountainous veil on August 21. Disney is moreover anticipated to prolong free up of the are living-action reboot of the 1998 animated classic, which would possibly maybe maybe maybe maybe force theaters, shuttered since mid-March, to dwell closed for the entirety of the summer season blockbuster season.