Waterworks Cinemas to reopen Friday, bringing silver screen back to Western Pa.

Buckets of buttered popcorn and silver screen flicks are back.

MovieScoop Waterworks Cinemas near Aspinwall plans to reopen Friday, offering $5 tickets for a lineup of some classic and superhero movies.

“It will be nice to have everyone together again,” said Liz Noullet, assistant manager at the MovieScoop Waterworks Cinemas, “and to have something that everyone can watch regardless of how old they are or what they like.”

Films to be shown through June 25 are “Aquaman” (2018), “Beetlejuice” (1988), “Ocean’s 8” (2018), “The Goonies” (1985), “Wonder Woman” (2017) and the 1978 version of “Superman.”

MovieScoop Cinemas, a Pittsburgh-based independent chain, has five locations. In addition to Waterworks, it planned to open Friday its theater at the Indiana Mall. Cranberry Cinemas is planned to open in July, following a luxury renovation, the company said. The chain also includes theaters in Defiance and Kent, Ohio.

Other movie chains represented in the region plan to follow suit soon, after having been closed since March, when Gov. Tom Wolf ordered all non-life-sustaining businesses to close as part of Pennsylvania’s effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

More than 30 states have reopened indoor movie theaters, according to the National Association of Theatre Owners. Indoor movie theaters are allowed to reopen in Pennsylvania counties in the green phase, which most of the southwestern region — including Allegheny and Westmoreland — entered June 5. Following the state’s guidelines for many public venues, each screening room will operate at 50 percent capacity to allow for social distancing.

AMC Theaters plans to reopen most of its U.S. sites by mid-July, The New York Times reported last week. The world’s largest movie theater chain has several regional locations, including at The Waterfront in Homestead as well as in Delmont, Hempfield and Buffalo Township.

A representative for AMC could not be reached.

The AMC Classic theater at the Westmoreland Mall remains deserted. Notices posted on the entrances read: “This theater is closed today.”

Movie posters still hang outside, including some for films released in December. Posters include “Jumanji: The Next Level,” “Impractical Jokers,” “Dolittle” and Disney’s “Onward.”

Cinemark announced this week it plans to reopen four theaters in the Pittsburgh area in early July.

The North Hills and Robinson locations will be among the first Cinemark theaters to open in Pennsylvania, on July 3, the company posted on its website.

Films to be shown include “The Matrix” (1999), “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015) and the 2020 releases “Sonic the Hedgehog,” “The Invisible Man” and “The Hunt.”

Theaters in Monroeville and Center Township, Beaver County, are in a group that will open July 10.

A Cinemark theater in the Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills in Frazer has been permanently closed.

Hollywood won’t be releasing new movies to show in theaters until at least July. “Unhinged,” a thriller featuring Russell Crowe, is expected to be released July 1. Christopher Nolan’s $200 million blockbuster “Tenet” is expected in mid-July, according to The New York Times.