Fornstam has been both lauded and reviled for keeping his cinemas open – even more since the biggest cinema chain in Sweden, Filmstaden, closed theirs.
“I am happy that we kept the doors open and that we are still operating [but] I wish everyone was operating.”
In Sweden, however, some have remained open all along, operating under new government guidelines.
With 47 cinemas and about 200 screens, the country’s second-largest chain Svenska Bio stayed operational – and as a result has become Europe’s biggest operator by box office revenue.