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The date 16 December 2020 should have been an auspicious one. Following a four-month drought, Wonder Woman 1984 – the first major ticket-seller since Tenet – was due to release in cinemas across the UK. Instead, London, Kent, and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire joined much of the North of England and the Midlands in Tier 3, extinguishing the beacon of hope that Diana Prince represented.
Among those affected by this eleventh hour closure was Genesis, an independent cinema in East London. “I can’t tell you how difficult that was for
