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Movie theaters around San Antonio are kicking off the summer with free and discounted tickets for families.

As the entertainment industry thaws from its pandemic freeze, Regal plans to reopen five movie theaters in the San Antonio area on Friday.

Regal Cinemas movie theaters in San Antonio will reopen on Friday after closing twice during the coronavirus pandemic.

This includes the one at the Quarry!

click to enlarge Google Street ViewRegal Fiesta 16, once the city's largest cineplex, was turned into a dollar theater roughly 10 years ago. The Regal Fiesta 16 dollar theater — once San Antonio's largest movie house — has been permanently shuttered, the Express-News reports Weingarten Realty, the owner of the Fiesta Trails shopping center, which houses the cineplex, confirmed the closure to the daily, saying it plans to repurpose the building.The colorful theater, located at 12631 Vance Jackson Road, opened in 1996 during a surge of development in Northwest San Antonio.It grabbed attention for having the city's largest number of screens at the time and for being the first local cinema with stadium seating — something that's since become standard.However, roughly 10 years ago, Regal stopped showing first-run flicks at the aging property and transitioned it into a dollar theater.In October, Regal announced that it had temporarily closed all its theaters due to the "challenging theatrical landscape and sustained key market closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic." It still has five other San Antonio cinemas.Movie chains nationwide have struggled to rebuild attendance during the COVID-19 crisis, and studios increasingly release films to streaming services at the same time as they hit theater screens.

SAN ANTONIO – The company that owns Regal cinemas has announced it will temporarily close 536 cinemas across the U.S. — six of those being in the San Antonio area — on Thursday. Cineworld will close the Regal theaters, as well as 127 Cineworld and Picturehouse venues in the U.K., due to the lack of blockbusters to attract customers during the pandemic. Some 45,000 employees are affected in total. The same decision has been made by other major studios, including Disney that has postponed Marvel’s “Black Widow” and Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story.”Regal has six locations in San Antonio: Regal Alamo Quarry, Regal Cielo Vista near Ingram Road, Regal Huebner Oaks & RPX, Regal Fiesta on Vance Jackson, Regal Northwoods on Henderson Pass, and Regal Live Oak. Greg Abbott allowed movie theaters to reopen at 25% capacity in May.

Cineworld Group Plc said Monday that it would close 536 Regal cinemas in the U.S. and 127 Cineworld and Picturehouse venues in the U.K. this week, affecting some 45,000 employees. Last week groups representing theater owners, movie studios and directors issued a plea to U.S. lawmakers to provide relief to ailing movie theaters. Cineworld had also been highly leveraged, having largely funded its acquisition of Regal Entertainment in 2018 through debt. Greidinger hopes that that might be settled before Christmas, in time for “Wonder Woman 1984.”“I will be the happiest man to open the cinemas for ‘Wonder Woman," he said. “But we will also need to look beyond ‘Wonder Woman’ to January and February.”