Yeah, I'm with you. Worst case scenario, the big chains will likely go bankrupt now, but it's not like the physical theaters they were renting are going anywhere, or will be converted to anything else. When this is finally over, either the same chains will be resurrected with new backers/management, or we'll get new chains altogether, and they'll just take over the same theaters. By and large, the movie-going experience isn't going anywhere, as there will always be demand (especially upon re-opening, post-vaccine), with a ton of product ready to go. I absolutely hate to see the smaller chains/theaters get destroyed, but new, small chains/theaters will eventually rise in their place. And yeah, I'm cautiously optimistic about Landmark as well. During this entire thing, I've heard zero news about them one way or the other, which I take as a positive, and have continued to receive relatively normal, movie-centric emails from their newsletter on a weekly basis, as if they're chugging right along. Selfishly, if the Landmark on Pico were to be the only theater to survive this thing, I'd still be content.
Overall, at this point, I wish we could just rip the band-aid off now. Go ahead and close theaters until March or so. No more question marks, no more week-to-week rescheduling. Let everyone file for bankruptcy, then slowly get all the mechanisms/funding in place for a come back, in whatever form it may be, ready to pull the trigger and get things going again come next year.