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Hollywood’s COVID-19 Task Force Sends Safety White Paper to New York, California Governors
Industry-Wide Safety Committee submits its recommendations ahead of L.A. County’s safety guideline release on Tuesday
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Are Studios and Networks Liable if Actors or Crew Contract COVID-19 on Set?
“It’s a risk to the employee coming back, it’s a risk for the employer of being sued and it’s a risk to the insurance company,” one lawyer tells TheWrap
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Coronavirus Ratings Boost Has Already Reversed – Except for Daytime TV
Soaps and talk are the only shows enjoying COVID isolation
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Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’: 3 Big Challenges for Warner Bros’ $200 Million Gamble
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing WB to release Nolan’s original blockbuster in uncharted territory
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Why Animated Films Forge Ahead Despite Hollywood Shutdown
In some ways, the animation industry has naturally prepared for an emergency like the COVID-19 pandemic
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How Craft Services Will Change: Goodbye Buffets, Hello Rising Costs
“We’re going to assume everyone is terrified…Now let’s serve food that way,” Chef Shanita Castle of Castles Catering tells TheWrap
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Movie Theaters in Italy to Reopen as Part of ‘Calculated Risk’ to Kick-Start Economy
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte asks the country to accept that the coronavirus “contagion curve may rise again”
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Why Video Games and Esports Will Thrive Post-Pandemic
“We have permanently increased the ecosystem’s economic and cultural relevance,” Complexity Gaming’s Jason Lake says
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TV Upfronts in the Coronavirus Era: Industry Braces for a Sluggish Ad Market
“There is not a mad rush to begin negotiations,” one media buyer tells TheWrap
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Cannes Admits Physical Festival Is Impossible, Turns to Other Plans
General Delegate Thierry Fremaux says the Cannes selection will be announced in June, and the festival will then work to promote films that would have been included
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Cord-Cutting Spiked During the Pandemic – Here’s How High | Chart
Pay-TV industry just suffered its biggest quarterly loss in customers, ever
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Upfronts Go Virtual: Here’s Every Broadcast Network’s Plans
In-person glitzy events were scrapped because of the pandemic, but that won’t stop the sales pitch
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How Texas’ Reopened Movie Theaters Suggest a Post-Pandemic Future | Video
“We wanted to make it so that the moment you walked in to the moment you reached your seats, you didn’t have to touch anything,” Santikos CEO Tim Handren says
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Can Disney’s Streaming Growth Make Up for All the Other COVID-19 Problems?
Early success of Disney+ figures to be lone bright spot while navigating pandemic impact
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Lionsgate Production Draft Revealed: Staggered Hours, CGI Extras and VR Location Scouting
TheWrap obtained an internal draft of Lionsgate’s still-developing plans to resume production
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