'WW' director warns movie-going could become extinct

Patty Jenkins' new 'Wonder Woman' movie has been delayed 3 x through the coronavirus pandemic. Now, the director is sounding the alarm that movie-going itself is under real threat. Jenkins is among a large number of top Hollywood directors attractive to the US government to supply a financial lifeline to cinemas. Without it, she warned, the century-old tradition of likely to the films could disappear from American culture. "If we shut this down, this will never be a reversible process," she said in an interview from her home in Los Angeles. "

We're able to lose movie theater-going forever." While theater attendance has rebounded in a few countries carrying out a global shutdown in March, the US market is struggling. Cineworld Group Plc is temporarily closing regal places that reopened in August. The National Association of Theatre Owners said 69% of small and mid-sized cinema companies could be forced to file for bankruptcy or shutter permanently.