COVID-19 Virus -- Movie related news
#351
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I honestly have no idea, but how is Georgia doing in terms of testing/cases/deaths?
edited to add: ok, I looked, I don't see the 14 day decline or whatever the guidance is, how are they going to open things up already? Also, I forgot this is Kemp, the guy who only learned like a week or so ago that asymptomatic people can transmit the disease. So maybe he has to catch up on his email again.
edited to add: ok, I looked, I don't see the 14 day decline or whatever the guidance is, how are they going to open things up already? Also, I forgot this is Kemp, the guy who only learned like a week or so ago that asymptomatic people can transmit the disease. So maybe he has to catch up on his email again.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/us-map
It seems like Kemp is going to get a lot of his citizens killed by re-opening the state way too early.
#352
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From the article in the Tweet:
The state has confirmed 18,947 cases of COVID-19, with 733 deaths, for a death rate of 3.8%. Kemp said documented cases have “flattened, and appear to be declining.”
For most Georgians, the “shelter in place” order will be lifted on April 30, though Kemp advised that residents continue to exercise caution. He also said that elderly and medically fragile residents should make plans to stay sheltered in place through May 13.
For most Georgians, the “shelter in place” order will be lifted on April 30, though Kemp advised that residents continue to exercise caution. He also said that elderly and medically fragile residents should make plans to stay sheltered in place through May 13.
#353
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I mean I just looked it up and this was the first set of graphs I found:
https://www.ajc.com/news/coronavirus...dP3RI9hJU5CWO/
https://www.ajc.com/news/coronavirus...dP3RI9hJU5CWO/
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#356
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#357
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Every experiment needs a control and a test. Thanks, Kemp, for nominating your state to be the test subjects. 🙄
#358
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The southern portion of the States are really pushing it at the moment.
Jacksonville, Florida re-opened beaches on Friday, after the state clocked in 1,400 new cases within a 24-hours period.
Jacksonville, Florida re-opened beaches on Friday, after the state clocked in 1,400 new cases within a 24-hours period.
#359
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#360
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Three weeks before Spider-Man 3’s current date? I guess that will get bumped too. They are supposed to start in July... though they are filming in Atlanta. Pandemic be damned down there.
#361
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Amazon Prime Video and SXSW have set a 39-film launch on April 27-May 6 for Prime Video presents the SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection.That is the virtual version of the Austin-Texas festival that got canceled in the pandemic. As Deadline reported, filmmakers accepted to SXSW were given the option to have their films play in this online film festival, and have their films viewable free to anyone who has a free Amazon account.
https://deadline.com/2020/04/sxsw-2020-festival-slate-to-launch-on-prime-video-april-27-film-list-1202913778/
List of films here:
https://deadline.com/2020/04/sxsw-2020-festival-slate-to-launch-on-prime-video-april-27-film-list-1202913778/
List of films here:
#362
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#363
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...movies-1291408
Tenet and WW84 will still be coming to theatres.
So stop hoping for it to hit streaming.
Tenet and WW84 will still be coming to theatres.
So stop hoping for it to hit streaming.
#364
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IFC is offering 200 movies free to re-opening theaters, starting May 29. At least one director of one of the offered films isn't happy with the start date.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...n-plan-1291483
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...n-plan-1291483
Under an initiative it has called the Indie Theater Revival Project, IFC Films has said it will offer 200 library titles for free to indie cinemas across the U.S. that are planning to reopen in the coming months after being shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic....
However, IFC's initiative — which starts May 29 and sees traditional rental fees waived for the first 30 days that cinemas are open — hasn't gone down well with one filmmaker.
Armando Iannucci, whose darkly satirical 2017 comedy The Death of Stalin is among the titles, tweeted that he thought the date was too soon, and that he didn't approve of any of his film being shown in U.S. cinemas until the country had emerged from COVID-19 crisis. May 29, he said, was "simply too early."
However, IFC's initiative — which starts May 29 and sees traditional rental fees waived for the first 30 days that cinemas are open — hasn't gone down well with one filmmaker.
Armando Iannucci, whose darkly satirical 2017 comedy The Death of Stalin is among the titles, tweeted that he thought the date was too soon, and that he didn't approve of any of his film being shown in U.S. cinemas until the country had emerged from COVID-19 crisis. May 29, he said, was "simply too early."
#366
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I'm all for that. There's nothing new right now and it gives more time for the curve to flatten in some really hard hit states.
#367
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"We have a strong belief that the production and distribution of media content will be permanently changed by this crisis," Michael Nathanson wrote about the coronavirus pandemic in a Friday report entitled "Say Goodbye to Hollywood."
Among his predictions: The U.S. will end up with fewer cinema screens, and most studios will have to look for mergers and acquisitions as "only a few studios will have the right mix of assets to survive" and profit from an accelerated shift to streaming services.
"Heading into 2020, we had argued that the fundamental pillars of media were starting to crack," Nathanson wrote. "Now, we fear that they will crumble as customer behavior permanently shifts to streaming models. The impact should be felt in both the traditional TV ecosystem and the film industry as content producers reexamine the economics of producing linear TV content and feature films. As a result, when this is all done, the top streaming platforms — Netflix, Amazon and Disney — will emerge with the lion's share of scripted content creation."
"Aside from Disney and their control of Disney+/Hulu and (AT&T/WarnerMedia's) Warner Bros. with HBO Max, the three other majors (Sony, Paramount, Universal) and the two minis (MGM and Lionsgate) will likely need to consolidate to increase selling clout and accelerate cost savings," Nathanson argued. "Indeed, this is what occurred in the recorded music industry over time as six once-mighty global recorded music companies merged into three healthier ones."
The music industry survived by "leveraging their copyright assets over a new crop of streaming distributors," the analyst highlighted, while in the film and TV sector "the streamers have decided to build out and own their own copyright, which accentuates the need to consolidate."
Once moviegoers get comfortable returning to theaters after the virus crisis, Nathanson predicted that most film fans would eventually return to cinemas and "we continue to believe the theatrical window will remain a critical driver of profitability and social awareness for tentpole movies." But, he said, "we question how much capital the studios will be willing to allocate to movies. … It is the small- to medium-sized budget movies that we worry about. We have already seen the share of movies that generate under $100 million at the domestic box office fall from 52 percent in 2010 to 39 percent in 2019, and we expect this trend to accelerate further. Mid-budget, non-tentpoles will not be worth the cost and expense of traditional theatrical distribution."
Nathanson is also predicting that the number of movie screens in the U.S. will fall. "Clearly, as a result of the current shutdowns, 2020 will end up as a fraction of [the] historical admissions range," he explained. "However, we think there will be lasting implications on future attendance even after fears around COVID-19 abate given the moves from both the studios and streaming services."
Movie theaters have been able to push prices higher, but chains will be able to invest less in renovations and upgrades while they focus on repairing balance sheets post-crisis, he added. "The broader adoption of streaming services that will offer their own selections of original film choices, the slowing theater upgrade cycles due to the need to repair balance sheets and the fact that many theaters are connected to zombie malls will hurt film attendance and shrink the number of screens in the industry," Nathanson concluded. "As a result, ticket prices will need to be raised, and as we have seen in other industries, that is typically the worst thing to do when demand weakens."
What can exhibitors do to help offset lost attendance from less smaller-budget product? "One idea is to come to an agreement with Netflix and other SVOD services producing their own original movies (and some acquired from other Hollywood studios)," Nathanson wrote. "We think it would serve the interests of both exhibitors and Netflix to reach an agreement (that would likely be applied to other major studio product as well for non-tentpoles) in order to help fill in any lost product directly from the major studios. Looking out, if indeed this happens, we see the potential of more aggressive theatrical windowing strategies for studios and the shortening of home video and pay 1 windows. In essence, this crisis could likely accomplish what theaters have, up to this point, long feared."
Among his predictions: The U.S. will end up with fewer cinema screens, and most studios will have to look for mergers and acquisitions as "only a few studios will have the right mix of assets to survive" and profit from an accelerated shift to streaming services.
"Heading into 2020, we had argued that the fundamental pillars of media were starting to crack," Nathanson wrote. "Now, we fear that they will crumble as customer behavior permanently shifts to streaming models. The impact should be felt in both the traditional TV ecosystem and the film industry as content producers reexamine the economics of producing linear TV content and feature films. As a result, when this is all done, the top streaming platforms — Netflix, Amazon and Disney — will emerge with the lion's share of scripted content creation."
"Aside from Disney and their control of Disney+/Hulu and (AT&T/WarnerMedia's) Warner Bros. with HBO Max, the three other majors (Sony, Paramount, Universal) and the two minis (MGM and Lionsgate) will likely need to consolidate to increase selling clout and accelerate cost savings," Nathanson argued. "Indeed, this is what occurred in the recorded music industry over time as six once-mighty global recorded music companies merged into three healthier ones."
The music industry survived by "leveraging their copyright assets over a new crop of streaming distributors," the analyst highlighted, while in the film and TV sector "the streamers have decided to build out and own their own copyright, which accentuates the need to consolidate."
Once moviegoers get comfortable returning to theaters after the virus crisis, Nathanson predicted that most film fans would eventually return to cinemas and "we continue to believe the theatrical window will remain a critical driver of profitability and social awareness for tentpole movies." But, he said, "we question how much capital the studios will be willing to allocate to movies. … It is the small- to medium-sized budget movies that we worry about. We have already seen the share of movies that generate under $100 million at the domestic box office fall from 52 percent in 2010 to 39 percent in 2019, and we expect this trend to accelerate further. Mid-budget, non-tentpoles will not be worth the cost and expense of traditional theatrical distribution."
Nathanson is also predicting that the number of movie screens in the U.S. will fall. "Clearly, as a result of the current shutdowns, 2020 will end up as a fraction of [the] historical admissions range," he explained. "However, we think there will be lasting implications on future attendance even after fears around COVID-19 abate given the moves from both the studios and streaming services."
Movie theaters have been able to push prices higher, but chains will be able to invest less in renovations and upgrades while they focus on repairing balance sheets post-crisis, he added. "The broader adoption of streaming services that will offer their own selections of original film choices, the slowing theater upgrade cycles due to the need to repair balance sheets and the fact that many theaters are connected to zombie malls will hurt film attendance and shrink the number of screens in the industry," Nathanson concluded. "As a result, ticket prices will need to be raised, and as we have seen in other industries, that is typically the worst thing to do when demand weakens."
What can exhibitors do to help offset lost attendance from less smaller-budget product? "One idea is to come to an agreement with Netflix and other SVOD services producing their own original movies (and some acquired from other Hollywood studios)," Nathanson wrote. "We think it would serve the interests of both exhibitors and Netflix to reach an agreement (that would likely be applied to other major studio product as well for non-tentpoles) in order to help fill in any lost product directly from the major studios. Looking out, if indeed this happens, we see the potential of more aggressive theatrical windowing strategies for studios and the shortening of home video and pay 1 windows. In essence, this crisis could likely accomplish what theaters have, up to this point, long feared."
#368
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One of the local theaters here said they hope to start small if they get the all clear to reopen and the quickest that would be is June 1st. They said it would be retro screenings up until July when the first new movies are set to open.
#369
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Trolls 2 gross crosses an estimated $95m: https://deadline.com/2020/04/trolls-...us-1202919723/
They get 80% / $77m of that.
They get 80% / $77m of that.
#370
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The idiot Texas governor is allowing the quarantine to expire April 30th, so they'll slowly be opening up places in phases - first of which is movie theaters. As soon as he announced it, Tim League of the Drafthouse said they won't be opening and will announce at some point later.
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/a...nd-1234591449/
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/a...nd-1234591449/
#371
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The idiot Texas governor is allowing the quarantine to expire April 30th, so they'll slowly be opening up places in phases - first of which is movie theaters. As soon as he announced it, Tim League of the Drafthouse said they won't be opening and will announce at some point later.
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/a...nd-1234591449/
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/a...nd-1234591449/
#372
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And here is the news, as expected, from The Academy :
2020 Streaming Oscars
Earlier today, the Academy’s board of governors approved a temporary relaxation of the rule stipulating that a film needs a seven-day theatrical run in L.A. County to qualify for the Oscars. This is transitional but whoa-level historic. For the first time in Hollywood history films that have never seen the light of a projector lamp will be able to scoop up an Oscar or two at the Kodak theatre.
The reason, of course, is the awful, soul-stifling, lifeforce-draining pandemic.
Exhibitors were already on life support and gasping for air due to theatre closings — now they’re having sequential heart attacks. They know that in the affairs of all institutions “temporary” often means “mostly temporary unless, you know, things change or whatever.”
Variety: “[This] doesn’t mean, however, tha any movie premiering on a streaming service is eligible for Oscar gold. To be considered, the streamed film must have already had a planned theatrical release. The film must also be made available on the Academy Screening Room member-only streaming site within 60 days of the film’s streaming or VOD release”
AMPAS president David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson, in a letter sent to Academy members: “The Academy firmly believes there is no greater way to experience the magic of movies than to see them in a theater. Our commitment to that is unchanged and unwavering. Nonetheless, the historically tragic COVID-19 pandemic necessitates this temporary exception to our awards eligibility rules. The Academy supports our members and colleagues during this time of uncertainty. We recognize the importance of their work being seen and also celebrated, especially now, when audiences appreciate movies more than ever.”
2020 Streaming Oscars
Earlier today, the Academy’s board of governors approved a temporary relaxation of the rule stipulating that a film needs a seven-day theatrical run in L.A. County to qualify for the Oscars. This is transitional but whoa-level historic. For the first time in Hollywood history films that have never seen the light of a projector lamp will be able to scoop up an Oscar or two at the Kodak theatre.
The reason, of course, is the awful, soul-stifling, lifeforce-draining pandemic.
Exhibitors were already on life support and gasping for air due to theatre closings — now they’re having sequential heart attacks. They know that in the affairs of all institutions “temporary” often means “mostly temporary unless, you know, things change or whatever.”
Variety: “[This] doesn’t mean, however, tha any movie premiering on a streaming service is eligible for Oscar gold. To be considered, the streamed film must have already had a planned theatrical release. The film must also be made available on the Academy Screening Room member-only streaming site within 60 days of the film’s streaming or VOD release”
AMPAS president David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson, in a letter sent to Academy members: “The Academy firmly believes there is no greater way to experience the magic of movies than to see them in a theater. Our commitment to that is unchanged and unwavering. Nonetheless, the historically tragic COVID-19 pandemic necessitates this temporary exception to our awards eligibility rules. The Academy supports our members and colleagues during this time of uncertainty. We recognize the importance of their work being seen and also celebrated, especially now, when audiences appreciate movies more than ever.”
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Yep, totally expected and the best thing to do.
#374
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Trolls 2 gross crosses an estimated $95m: https://deadline.com/2020/04/trolls-...us-1202919723/
They get 80% / $77m of that.
They get 80% / $77m of that.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...d-tour-1292327
"The results for Trolls World Tour have exceeded our expectations and demonstrated the viability of PVOD,” Shell told the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the numbers. “As soon as theaters reopen, we expect to release movies on both formats.”
In a strongly worded letter to Universal Filmed Entertainment Group chairman Donna Langley dispatched later on Tuesday, AMC Theatres chair-CEO Adam Aron said Shell's comments were unacceptable. AMC is the largest circuit in the world.
"It is disappointing to us, but Jeff’s comments as to Universal’s unilateral actions and intentions have left us with no choice. Therefore, effectively immediately AMC will no longer play any Universal movies in any of our theaters in the United States, Europe or the Middle East," Aron said in the letter.
In a strongly worded letter to Universal Filmed Entertainment Group chairman Donna Langley dispatched later on Tuesday, AMC Theatres chair-CEO Adam Aron said Shell's comments were unacceptable. AMC is the largest circuit in the world.
"It is disappointing to us, but Jeff’s comments as to Universal’s unilateral actions and intentions have left us with no choice. Therefore, effectively immediately AMC will no longer play any Universal movies in any of our theaters in the United States, Europe or the Middle East," Aron said in the letter.
#375
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You really think drunk people in a bar are going to social distance?