(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 01 - The date of March 27 "cannot, however, be considered the restart of the sector, but the first symbolic step of its path. The current epidemiological conditions impose restrictive measures on exhibitors so as not to allow the market to restart in a structured way" .
This is the position of cinema exhibitors (ANEC).
Which emphasize "we need sustainable measures".
And they thank Franceschini for having assured this morning that the aid to the department will also continue with the reopening to accompany the companies out of the emergency.
The exhibitors recall that they have presented to the ministry, together with the entire cinema sector and distribution partners, "a protocol, starting from the one with which it worked in October, with the strengthening of some measures, but not an upheaval".
While from the analysis of the Technical Scientific Committee, they point out, "extremely restrictive conditions would arise that would not allow the release of new films in theaters, inhibiting the reopening of most of the cinemas, forced to an economic unsustainability of the activity".
For the association, however, the declarations of the minister this morning are fundamental, for which we thank him, in which the knowledge of the dynamics of the cinema sector emerges fully, underlining how it was decided to undertake a symbolic but necessary path with the date of March 27, and they reiterate aid to the sector for the period of closure and support to accompany businesses out of the emergency ".
Hence the hope: "We are confident in a consolidation of the vaccination plan that will allow us to review the strong restrictions currently required in April and finally be able to talk about the restart of the cinema market, with gradual strengthening of the output of products enriched gradually by international blockbusters".
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