ORANGE PARK – AMC Theaters at the Orange Park Mall reopened today, Aug. 20, after months of being closed for COVID-19 And to celebrate tickets are just 15 cents for selected shows.

The international company announced Aug. 13 it would be opening 100 U.S. theaters on Aug. 20. The Orange Park Mall was one.

To celebrate the return, AMC will say “welcome back to movies in 2020 at 1920 prices” which is also the year that the company’s founders, the Dubinsky Brothers, began their theater business in Kansas City, Missouri.

“The remaining AMC locations will open after we get further clearance from state and local authorities that it is safe to do so,” AMC said in an email to A-List members.

AMC said all staff and customers will wear masks, reversing what CEO Adam Aron said in June that masks should be encouraged when theaters reopen, but not enforced.

AMC’s mask mandate joins other mask mandates by Clay County-located businesses like Walmart.

Will 15-cent movies be enough to convince customers to return to the silver screen while wearing a mask the entire time? That depends on how you feel about its initial offerings: 2017’s “Beauty and the Beast,” “Black Panther,” “Back to the Future,” “Bloodshot,” “The Goonies,” “I Still Believe, Jumanji: The Next Level,” “Sonic the Hedgehog,” “Grease,” “Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back” and “Ghostbusters.”

None of the movies are particularly new. Movies like “Sonic the Hedgehog” and “Bloodshot” came out this year, but those movies were released ahead of the coronavirus shutdown.

New movies like Christopher Nolan’s upcoming sci-fi epic “Tenet” is expected to arrive in theaters soon. AMC will require standard face masks. Neck gaiters, open-chin bandanas and masks with vents or exhalation valves will not be allowed. The company will sell masks for $1.

Food and drinks will be available. If buy food or drinks, you may remove your mask to enjoy your refreshment. You will be allowed to sit next to others in your immediate party but there must be one empty seat in between you and others that aren’t in your party.

The initial batch of movie tickets will sell for 15 cents on Thursday, Aug. 14. The price will jump to $5 after that. New releases like “Tenet” will be approximately $10, according to AMC.

Movie productions across dozens of studios saw their production schedules pushed back. The movies set to release in theaters soon like “Tenet” and Disney-Fox’s “The New Mutants” were filmed and completed before the coronavirus shutdown.

AMC furloughed its CEO and other corporate employees earlier this year when it closed more than 600 locations. That put a lot of non-corporate employees out of jobs. The company also had its credit rating downgraded and faced a possible bankruptcy filing.