Netflix Will Actually Release Zack Snyder’s Zombie Thriller ‘Army of the Dead’ in a Lot of Movie Theaters

Netflix and movie theaters are finally playing nice — and all it took was a global pandemic to make these antagonists friends.Zack Snyder’s upcoming zombie thriller, “Army of the Dead,” will play exclusively on the big screen starting on May 14 for one week prior to its Netflix release on May 21.Notably, Cinemark, one of the country’s biggest theater chains, has agreed to play the movie, making “Army of the Dead” the first Netflix film to score a wide release at a major theater chain.

It will screen at 200 Cinemark locations and roughly 600 theaters in total, including iPic, Landmark, Alamo Drafthouse, Harkins and Cinépolis.

Other major circuits, specifically AMC and Regal, will not be offering the film.Before Covid-19 upended the movie theater business, audiences who didn’t want to watch the latest Netflix movie on their couch could only do so at smaller circuits, Alamo and Landmark included.

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