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Dec 30, 2020 · How 2020 Changed Hollywood, and the Movies, Forever. Hollywood studios have used the pandemic to heed the advice of former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel: “You never want a serious crisis to go to ...
Jan 21, 2021 · Due to the pandemic, 2020 was a year overloaded with so much upheaval. For the film industry, let’s look at ten unbelievable record-breaking changes in 2020. 1. China supplanted the US as the ...
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COVID-19 has upended the global film industry, halting film production and closing cinemas. Even before the pandemic, however, streaming video on-demand (SVOD) was having a huge impact on the industry. The pandemic is accelerating the ongoing transformation in movie production, distribution and consumption.
Dec 21, 2020 · Transcript. The movie industry has been through such a dramatic shift during the pandemic. Many theaters have closed, and there are worries the industry will never return to the previous normal ...
- Inclusivity Challenges
- Income Inequality
- Unstable Streaming Wars
- CGI’s Existential Crisis
- Quandaries at The Box Office
A USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative report released in the fall put it simply: Inclusion in Hollywood continues to proceed at “a very slow pace” and inconsistently. It’s a fact that’s played out most recently in the 2020 BAFTA nominations, which saw only white actors and male directors. 2019 marked an increase in women-directed films: 19 of the 12...
As mega-corporations like Disney make billions every year and the biggest showrunners and filmmakers are inking hefty deals with studios and streamers, the riches have not been trickling down to those on the lowest rungs of the Hollywood ladder. Assistants struggle to make ends meet on salaries that in many cases aren’t much more than minimum wage....
It’s boom times for both original, high-quality content and well known library titles as Netflix and Hulu are facing new competition from the likes of Apple, Disney, WarnerMedia, Quibi, and NBCUniversal, all of which are have launched or will soon launch their own streaming services. It’s an environment that led HBO to pick up TIFF breakout “Bad Ed...
It’s an exciting time for visual effects when Will Smith can convincingly battle against a younger version of himself in 120 fps in “Gemini Man” and a 76-year-old Robert De Niro can be de-aged to lifetime of more youthful moments in “The Irishman.” But recent movies indebted to CGI advancements haven’t all been well-received by audiences. The unexp...
The statistic only tells part of the story: 2019 was one of the top-three best years ever at the box office, with over $41 billion in worldwide grosses. That’s largely thanks to a banner year for Disney, the studio that has become synonymous with franchise installments like “Avengers: Endgame,” which broke the worldwide gross record when it brought...
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The decade of the 2020s in film directly dealt with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema. This witnessed a profound transformation in how movies are produced, distributed, and consumed globally.
Jan 1, 2020 · The Mouse House delivered six of the eight films that earned $1bn at cinemas worldwide in the calendar year: Avengers: Endgame, The Lion King, Captain Marvel, Toy Story 4, Aladdin and Frozen II ...
