Lights, Camera, No Action? Hollywood Rocked By Virus
March 6, 2020
5:09 pm
The new James Bond movie delayed. Studios scrapping film festivals. Blockbuster productions shut down. Hollywood is being rocked by the unprecedented challenge of the new coronavirus, insiders told AFP this week.
“I have never seen anything where this many films are going to be affected all at once,” said Jeff Bock, senior analyst at Exhibitor Relations.
“There’s isolated incidents or tragedies that happen, that might affect a certain film. But this really does infect all the industry from top to bottom.”
Industry estimates put the financial loss from Asian theaters already shuttered this year around $2 billion.
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