California has opened. My beloved local theater hasn’t. Why?

The Vista Theatre remains shuttered until further notice, with its wistful “To be continued.” sign still on the marquee. “We can’t do anything until we know we have the government grant; it’s really that simple,” said Alspaugh, 62, who began managing the Vista Theatre in 1988 before becoming its owner in 1997. “We are committed to doing everything we can to improve funding speed, get Americans the relief they desperately need and open our venues again.” Alspaugh isn’t “inclined to throw the government — any government, red or blue — under the bus,” though the program was approved in December and as of June 14 had awarded only $304.2 million in funds and approved 411 grants out of more than 14,000 applications. I loved going back to the movies this weekend for the “Quiet Place” sequel at Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 in Pasadena, but it’s clearly going to take the general public some time to get acclimated. In the latest sign of where things are going in Hollywood, Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners on Monday made a deal with Netflix covering “multiple new feature films per year.” This is particularly interesting coming from a filmmaker who in 2019 wanted to propose rule changes at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that would curb Netflix’s Oscar ambitions.