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Home » Coronavirus: List Of Canceled Or Postponed Hollywood & Media Events

Coronavirus: List Of Canceled Or Postponed Hollywood & Media Events

You can almost hear the destruction as everything from movie and TV productions, award shows, concerts, film festivals and more come crashing down. We suggest you track the latest from Deadline’s regularly updated page.

We’ll be keeping an eye on the local New York scene too.

Image credit: Rozette Rago for The New York Times

Deadline

Deadline’s site has the most thorough info I’ve found on what’s happening to the major productions, concerts, award shows and more as we descend into the coronavirus crisis. The scale of the postponed and cancelled productions gives some sense of what we will loose.

Postponing a large Hollywood feature might be disappointing to the stars loosing opportunity, but the hard reality is the scale of the losses faced by the thousands of production crew members, postproduction teams, office workers and movie ticket takers, the majority of which work under contracts offering no protection.

Some members of Congress understand this, so there’s that hope. The industry itself, however, faces a major reckoning, from work practices to budgets and more, with no clear way forward.

And on that cherry note

Consider just a few of the event postponements, from small time to name items, that face the loss of audiences that fuel their success –

Off-Broadway’s 35th Lucille Lortel Awards will be an online-only event on May 3. Nominations will be announced April 14.

The 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony that was set for May 2 in Cleveland is postponed to November 7.

The 74th annual Tony Awards, scheduled to air live June 7 on CBS, has been postponed. No new date is set.

Deadline’s page on suspended film productions is also extensive. You can access it by clicking HERE. If you want a page on Deadline’s site that collects their many news stories on how the virus affects the industry, click HERE.

Vox

Vox has also written about all the many closures, production push-backs and more – although their last update was March 31, 2020. Click on the following headlines for more on these headlines:

How the coronavirus outbreak is roiling the film and entertainment industries
Most recently, Sony delayed nearly its entire summer movie slate into 2021.

Vanity Fair

How Can Hollywood Keep Going in an Era of Social Distancing?

As the coronavirus crisis deepens, an industry founded upon crowds and glad-handing comes screeching to a halt: “We’re making a movie, but you feel like you’re living in a movie.”

That’s Vanity Fair’s take on how the coronavirus will change the industry. Click HERE for the full March 13, 2020 article.

The New York Times

The New York Times analyzed the movie theater industry with an article on March 15, 2020 entitled –

Movie Crowds Stay Away. Theaters Hope It’s Not for Good.

Cinemas, already contending with streaming services, are now facing the prospect of no audiences and no new films because of the coronavirus pandemic.

If any local production company has news to update our readers, please get in touch: dan [at] nycppnews.com

We will update this page as more reporting becomes available about how our industry, the individuals, the companies, will deal with this pandemic.

About Dan Ochiva

New York City-based journalist and NYCPPNEWS founder Dan Ochiva writes and consults on film, video, and digital media technology.

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How Sony’s New Virtual Sound Technology Can Change How We Hear Films

Kami Asgar and Jessica Parks are post-production heavyweights who work with major studios, namely Sony. As a sound designer (Asgar) and as a post executive (Parks), their collective resume touches on everything from Apocalypto to Grandma’s Boy to Venom.

Parks has recently shifted her focus from supervisor to hands-on sound design, and we talk about how it’s never too late to pivot on your career path and find the thing you love doing wherever you are in life.

Click on this link to read the rest of the article on No Film School’s site.

NJ – Governor Murphy signs $14B Incentive Program Bill – the NJ Economic Recovery Act of 2020

 Film tax credits — amending existing programs to include provisions for so-called New Jersey film partners and New Jersey film-lease partners and allowing an additional $200 million of tax credits annually over 13 years.

Click this link if you want to read the full article on the Lexology site. http://bit.ly/35NtDx6

Film Commish announces date for production restart

In her December 18, 2020 news update, MOME Commissioner Anne del Castillo announced that the Film Office is now accepting permit applications for production activity that begins on July 27th.

She also announced awards now (Awkwafina) and more. To read all of the Film Commish’s bloggy sort of news column, click here.

Stimulus Offers $15 Billion in Relief for Struggling Arts Venues

The coronavirus relief package that Congressional leaders agreed to this week includes grant money that many small proprietors described as a last hope for survival.

For the music venue owners, theater producers and cultural institutions that have suffered through the pandemic with no business, the coronavirus relief package that Congress passed on Monday night offers the prospect of aid at last.

To read the full article on The New York Times’ site, click here.

If you want to start production, here’s the latest news from the Mayor’s Office

Phase 4 production guidance is available on the Film Permit website. All production activity, whether it requires a Film Permit or not, must comply with New York Forward Industry Guidance.

For more information see, please refer to the State Department of Health’s Interim Guidance for Media Production During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Please review the guidelines and FAQ before submitting permit applications. The Film Office is operating remotely, so please allow additional time for Film Permit processing.

The above paragraphs contain links to the various FAQ – just mouse over the relevant words.

Nikon to Stop Making Cameras in Japan

Nikon has fallen on hard times as of late as its camera sales have cratered, and now there’s a new indicator of how dire its financial situation is: the company is reportedly pulling the plug on making cameras in Japan after over 70 years of doing so.

To read the full article on Petapixel’s site, click here.

NVIDIA Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls

NVIDIA Research has invented a way to use AI to dramatically reduce video call bandwidth while simultaneously improving quality

What the researchers have achieved has remarkable results: by replacing the traditional h.264 video codec with a neural network, they have managed to reduce the required bandwidth for a video call by an order of magnitude. In one example, the required data rate fell from 97.28 KB/frame to a measly 0.1165 KB/frame – a reduction to 0.1% of required bandwidth.

To read the rest of this article on Petapixel, click this link.

 

 

 

Union Health Plan Dodges Film Workers’ Suit Over Virus Relief

Law360 (October 9, 2020, 5:22 PM EDT) — The Motion Picture Industry Health Plan’s board can’t be sued under ERISA for allegedly flouting its duties when it relaxed plan rules in response to COVID-19, a California federal judge has ruled, nixing a proposed class action filed by two cinematographers who still couldn’t qualify for benefits.

In an order entered Thursday, U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner granted the board of directors’ motion to dismiss Greg Endries and Dee Nichols’ Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit accusing board members of breaching their duty to treat all plan participants fairly.

Endries and Nichols, members of Local 600 of the International Cinematographers Guild, said in July that the board left them and others “out in the cold” in its attempts to address the problems COVID-19 caused for plan participants.

But Judge Klausner agreed with the board’s contention that the case, which alleged a fiduciary breach, should be tossed because plan administrators don’t act as fiduciaries when they amend health care plans.

Read the full article on the Law360 site by clicking here.

Russo Brothers Received Close to $50 Million From Saudi Bank

Anthony Russo and Joseph Russo photographed at the PMC Studio in Los Angeles for the Variety Playback Podcast.

The Russo brothers, directors of the all-time top grossing film “Avengers: Endgame,” quietly secured a roughly $50 million cash infusion for their production company AGBO from Saudi Arabia earlier this year, multiple sources tell Variety.

In a deal brokered and closed at the beginning of the pandemic, the Russos received the investment from an undisclosed Saudi bank in exchange for a minority stake in the brothers’ Los Angeles-based shop.

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