MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
Will big audiences ever return to movie theaters? That was the big question hovering over a gathering of movie theater owners this week. They met in Las Vegas for their first full convention in three years. John Horn from Southern California Public Radio has this report.
JOHN HORN, BYLINE: It felt a little like a reunion of Titanic survivors, and the setting fit - The Colosseum at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, where Celine Dion, who sang the blockbuster film's famous ballad, played for years. The thousands streaming into the arena this week were talking about different blockbusters, those that didn't yet exist. They had come to Las Vegas for CinemaCon, an annual convention for movie theater owners who are looking for hit films to bring customers back to their multiplexes. Few national businesses were as decimated by COVID as movie theaters. Tom Rothman is the chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Motion Picture Group.
