The suspension of live audiences in daylight hours and nightly communication shows one of the first effects of the global pandemic. But on Thursday, CBS’s “Survivor,” the sequel to Fast and Furious’s “F9” and “A Quiet Place Part II” were the newest to be added to a long list of systems forced to avoid filming or postpone releases.
Producer and media representative Kathryn Arnold told Fox News why the entertainment industry may be the hardest hit financially.
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“Now, with all the cancellations of festivals and markets, movie sales are affected and the promotional viability of the films is affected,” Arnold told us. “Now there’s a question mark about whether it makes sense to release such giant and potentially difficult films here in the United States when cash dollars can be compromised.”
But there would possibly be an even bigger deficit for the other people who create those productions, Arnold noted.
“Monetary ramifications are not only for the studios and production corporations that finance those films, but also for all employees,” Arnold said. “Everything from making a movie on a set with 40 or 300 other people sharing space, sharing hallways or sharing food, comes at risk. Their industry is incredibly human.”
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In a letter to Entertainment Weekly team members, host and executive manufacturer Jeff Probst said production had been postponed until mid-May.
“Due to the growing short-term uncertainty surrounding the global spread of COVID-19 and the corresponding preference for the continued well-being of our incredible crew, we need to postpone our start date for season 41 of ‘Survivor’,” the letter read.
Similarly, the television screen “Riverdale” also suspended production after “a member of the production contacted someone who recently tested positive,” Variety reported Wednesday. Not without transparent delay if this user component of the cast or computer.
“We were informed that a member of the ‘Riverdale’ team, which is being produced in Vancouver, recently contacted someone who tested positive for COVID-19. The team member is recently undergoing a medical evaluation, Warner Bros. spokesman Told Variety. Television: and added that “as a precautionary measure, Riverdale’s production” is lately suspended.”
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“Peter Rabbit 2” will premiere in British and European cinemas on March 27 and will premiere in the United States on April 3. Instead, Sony announced that the sequel to 2018’s “Peter Rabbit” would be introducing on August 7.
Paramount has announced its release to the film release date of “The Lovebirds,” a romantic comedy starring Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani that will be released in theaters April 3. The studio has not yet announced a new release date.
And last week, April’s most important film, the James Bond film “No Time to Die,” postponed from early April to November. Much of the first promotion of the film had already begun, with Daniel Craig presenting “Saturday Night Live” on Saturday and the release of Billie Eilish’s theme song.
Although North American cinemas have not yet reported a noticeable decline in their profits, the global film market has been directly affected by the virus. Cinemas have been closed in China for several weeks and Italy has also recently closed its cinemas. In many countries, fitness experts advocate social estrangement to prevent the spread of the virus.
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“It’s a production nightmare,” Arnold added. “Movies and TV screens charge between $10 and $35,000 for a small independent movie thousands of dollars a day. If you stay with your equipment and location sites and don’t shoot, you spend cash without getting the results. There is equipment, transportation and logistics prices to put others on bail so they don’t pass out to make a movie. These are all critical elements of cinema”.
John Krasinski, screenwriter and director of “A Quiet Place 2,” announced Thursday that his film, a Premiere of Paramount Pictures, would be released next week as planned, but would be postponed to an as yet unreleased date. Universal Pictures also announced that “F9” will open on May 22 as scheduled in April next year.
In China, the premiere of “Sonic the Hedgehog” was delayed and the release date of “Mulan” also delayed. In Venice, Italy, “Mission: Impossible VII” stopped production and filming.
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CBS will also suspend production of the series of truth contests “The Amazing Race”, while in Prague the production of “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” was canceled.
Arnold noted that in addition to finance, the global film industry is also exposed to increased piracy.
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“They canceled the Chinese release of ‘Mulan’, but if they broadcast it here in the United States at the end of March, how are they going to have privacy? That was an initial concern,” Arnold said.
Jeff Bock, a senior media analyst at Exhibitor Relations in Los Angeles, California, said the global cash is affected by the burgeoning effects of streaming services.
“2020 will have an asterisk in terms of any other year at the box office. I think it’s transparent now,” Bock told Fox News.
Bock added: “It will be an aberrant effect. Most of the knowledge from 2020 will be pretty dead in terms of comparison to some other year. As long as all this goes away until the end of the year, we’ll have a record vacation season with all the movies that will be in theaters for the last 3 or 4 months of the year. There’s no doubt about it. It will be a smart signal until 2021 if that’s true.
“That said, there’s no better time in anyone’s life to worry about streaming content. This is in favor of Netflix, Disney, Hulu and Amazon due to the expected closures that will take place over the next two months. The worst time for this to happen is for cinemas, who are already reeling and fighting. It’s been a tough war between film and streaming, and it’s going to hurt in the short term.”
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For many others, the new coronavirus only causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially the elderly (60 years or older) and others with existing fitness problems, this can lead to more serious illnesses, adding pneumonia. The vast majority of other people in a few weeks.
By Wednesday night, another 38 people had died in the United States, while more than 1300 people had tested positive for the new coronavirus. Tolls have been higher elsewhere. In Italy, where more than 12,000 people tested positive and another 800 people died, all outlets, pharmacies and food markets were closed.
The Associated Press contributed to the report.