Some cinemas closed for nearly 2 years since the COVID-19 pandemic reached Myanmar will be opened again in April 17 which is a Myanmar New Year Day.

All the cinemas were closed in the middle of March, 2020. 

“Not all the cinemas can be opened in April 17. As cinemas use digital system, it takes time to operate them. Meetings will be taking place among cinema owners and producers. At present, four or five cinemas will be chosen and showed. The exact detail will be known at the end of March,” said an official who participated in opening cinemas by Myanmar Motion Picture Association.

Initially, Ministry of Information has planning to open some 60 cinemas among all the cinemas in Myanmar. There are private owned cinemas in Myanmar and majority of them are owned by Mingalar Company and JCGV, Mega Ace and Paradiso companies also owned cinemas. 

Mingalar Company is preparing to open 20 cinemas in Yangon and Mandalay on April 17 while Mega Ace is preparing to open 3 cinemas in Yangon and one in Mandalay.

An official from the JCGV Company said they are also preparing to open cinemas in Yangon and Nay Pyi Taw but as the cinemas were closed for a long time, there were technological errors.  So, they are doing maintaining works at present and they couldn’t say exactly how many cinemas will open.

In 2019, altogether 99 movies had showed in cinemas. Up to 2019, there were hundreds of cinemas which were waiting to be shown in cinemas.