Moviegoers hold up phones Monday to record their first viewing experience in nearly six months at a theater in Hangzhou, East China’s Zhejiang province.

A customer prepares to collect his ticket in the lobby of a cinema in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu province.

A movie theater customer has her temperature checked in a cinema lobby in Hangzhou.

Workers prepare for the reopening of a cinema in Changsha, Central China’s Hunan province. Dolls were placed in every other seat so customers maintained social distancing.

A worker disinfects the public space outside a cinema in Handan, North China’s Hebei province.

Residents gather outside a currently closed cinema in Shanghai.

The popular Cathay cinema in busy downtown Shanghai was open for business.