Posted on 05/06/2020 11:53:58 AM PDT by EdnaMode
The full reopening of the film and TV industry probably won’t be possible until a vaccine is developed to combat the coronavirus and testing and tracing of the virus’ spread are in place, according to David White, national executive director of SAG-AFTRA. White shared that view during a media conference call today with the top leaders of the industry’s unions and guilds, including representatives of the DGA, IATSE, Actors’ Equity and the WGA East.
“As a general matter, it’s worth noting that a vaccine is right now maybe not a consensus but overwhelmingly viewed as the time when everything can go back to normal,” White said. “And broad and reliable testing and tracing is the rule-of-thumb standard as to when we will have some organized, sustained production returning to stages. If you don’t know who is a super-carrier, and they’re on a set with folks, even with social distancing, you’ve got a problem. So you’ve got to be able to test and the vaccine is viewed as the time when it can come back.
“I’m not an expert and there’s broad thinking around that,” he continued, “but as a rule of thumb, we’re looking for things to be firmly in place before we’re going to put people in an environment that can actually directly and negatively affect their health.”
Asked by Deadline about the work of the Industry-Wide Labor Management Safety Committee, which will play a key role in establishing protocols for a resumption of production, White said, “All the unions are working together on an easy-to-understand format to give an indication as to whether or not we’ve agreed that a set is safe vs. unsafe, so we’re all working together to come up with that protocol, which will tie into what the industry is doing.”
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The newest remake “is the one you have been waiting for!”
These people are a living demonstration of how hate is so destructive. All their rage and hate allows them to see is the chaos they can bring to damage Donald Trumps signal achievement. They are sawing off the tree limb upon which they are sitting in the hopes that they can come crashing down on Donald Trumps head.
I’ll bet the porn actors are still employed! *SMIRK*
How that industry makes money still confuses me.
Between good technology that can be bought reasonably and homemade producers, plus piracy, I am missing something.
You can’t bankrupt when they can just create more money.
Maybe they can just wear masks?
Make a movie based on the M.A.S.K. cartoon.
Please stay sort of faithful to cartoon that had a little going for it no matter how farfetched it was.
I don’t see the downside here.
Get ready for at least 1,000 “COVID Saga” movies and TV shows. Even if this thing runs its course, we will get to relive it for decades to come. There won’t be an angle unexplored.
“I wonder if this has anything to do with the bribes state and local governments have been offering Hollyweird to film in their states and cities.”
One of our DNA pools, and now a long time adult, predicted the bromance of the gay/Follywood and gay Frisco. As Gay Frisco became gayer including the Gay pride parades/days/weeks/years.
Gay Follywood and their bastard child, gay oriented tv series would evolve into an inseparable interwoven duality.
Then gays would rule San Francisco and most of the Bay Area, business wise, entertainment wise,food wise, financially, and politically.
There are “essential” job openings cleaning the NYC subways.
I agree. Those who work behind the scenes that are not nuts should start the film industry in another place. Go into competition with Hollywood.
I guess flattening the curve was so April. Time to move the goalposts.
States cannot print money.
They can only borrow it.
By this time next year, some major states will be in severe financial trouble. They need a democrat potus and congress to create money for their promises.
Thanks. Very interesting article. If NYC and NY lose a fair size share of new productions or new remakes of old remakes, NYC/NY is in real financial trouble.
The US had 8 cases of SARS and no deaths. Globally, there were a little over 8000 cases and 774 deaths. Yesterday alone, just in the US, we had 19000 new cases and 823 new deaths from Covid 19.
They never were normal.
(Hollywood) Production Won’t Return To “Normal”
It never was normal
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