Little more than a month after its post-quarantine reopening, the local Regal movie theater is closing again. Regal announced it would temporarily suspend operations at all of its U.S. theaters as of Friday, Oct. 9, in response to an increasingly challenging theatrical landscape and sustained key market closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Regal’s Vice President of Communications Richard Grover.

Regal, a subsidiary of the Cineworld Group, operates 7,076 screens in 536 theaters in 42 states – the nearest a…