Hollywood Could Take $20 Billion Hit From Coronavirus Impact

Hollywood Reporter ^ | March 13, 2020 | Tatiana Siegel, Borys Kit, Lesley Goldberg

[Cvengr]

ESPN should focus on Wii Finals. ESPN Telework.

[Romulus]

Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

[edh]

Funny how we never hear about “greedy big Hollywood”.

[InvisibleChurch]

“Right now, thousands of our members across all sectors of the entertainment industry are suffering financial hardship because of government mandated cancellations.

Gee, dat’s tough.

[rfreedom4u]

I’m also retired. But I play a lot of strategy board game too in addition to reading.

[Rastus]

There will come a time in the not-so-distant future when theaters will be a thing of the past. People have big enough TVs and movies will go straight home with no loss in quality that the average person cares about. The Wuwu may help speed that process along.

And, at some point later on, theaters will be revived like vinyl by the nostalgic and the hipsters.

[Robert DeLong]

I hope it hits 40 billion myself.

[combat_boots]

ChiComs now own Hwood

They can have it

[euram]

couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch.

[Bommer]

That optimistic that any of the crap coming out is going to make that much money, combined.

[Perhaps Today]

I guess it’s just like Johnny Cash said.

“But there’s a silver linin’ behind every cloud.” ;)

[Starcitizen]

Mulan is now disneyfied Communist Chinese garbage

[bkopto]

THIS IS GREAT NEWS!

HOLLYWOOD AND MOVIE COMPANIES: GFY

[PGalt]

GREAT. Shut it down.

[jmacusa]

Yeah... it’s a cyrin’ shame, ain’t it? Gets you right in the old bread basket.

[Fresh Wind]

First a shortage of toilet paper, and now a shortage of movies.

This really IS a crisis!

[GreyFriar]

I have many old Avalon Hill, Game Designer Workshop and S&T wargames from decades ago, that I haven’t played in those decades. I found a modeling club out here so it makes sense for me to try to find some wargamers. Thanks for the reminder.

[rfreedom4u]

Avalon Hill is my favorite! Sadly finding opponents is rather difficult. But there are quite a few play by email methods.

Keep the hobby alive!