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      Spike Lee Likens Coronavirus Situation to War in Support of Cannes Cancellation

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      Agreeing with the move taken by festival director Thierry Fremaux, the ‘BlacKkKlansman’ filmaker stresses that this pandemic is ‘no joke’ and the crisis is ‘not some movie.’
      Mar 21, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Cannes Film Festival jury president Spike Lee has strongly backed the cancellation of the French movie event due to the coronavirus crisis.
      Cannes’ festival director Thierry Fremaux announced on Thursday, March 19 that the iconic film event would not go ahead as planned in May, with much of Europe and the U.S. facing lockdown and travel restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the virus.
      Spike, who was to have served as the movie showcase’s jury president, backed the move wholeheartedly, despite his disappointment, as he compared the situation to a, “war,” echoing the words of French President Emmanuel Macron.
      “I agree 100 percent with Thierry and the Cannes Film Festival,” the “BlacKkKlansman” filmaker tells Variety. “The world has changed and it’s changing every day. People are dying and France’s president has said, several times – I’m paraphrasing – ‘We are at war.’ We are in a war-like time.”
      “The stuff that we love has to take a back seat: movies, TV, sports, the NBA is a global sport, baseball. So many things have been postponed, and I agree with this move.”
      Organizers have, however, announced their intention to reschedule if possible, and Spike says he will make time to head up the jury if new dates are found.
      “Let’s not forget this is the world’s biggest film festival, the world’s biggest stage for cinema and I’ll be the first black president of the jury,” he adds. “So look, I can’t pretend (to know) what’s going to happen tomorrow. Everybody has to pray, get on bended knee, pray, we get out of this, find a vaccine, get back on our feet – physically, emotionally and financially worldwide. This is no joke. It’s not some movie. People are dying.”

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      'Black Widow' Delay Could Have 'Cascading Effect' on Other MCU Releases

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      Disney has pushed back the release date of the Scarlett Johansson-starring solo movie, which was initially scheduled to open in theaters around the world on May 1, in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.
      Mar 18, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Not even “Black Widow” can resist the blow caused by COVID-19. The Scarlett Johansson-starring pic has become the latest movie to push back its release date in light of the coronavirus pandemic that has been crippling the show business in Hollywood and all over the world.
      Disney announced on Tuesday, March 17 that the solo movie, which takes place between the events of “Captain America: Civil War” and “Avengers: Infinity War”, will no longer open in theaters worldwide on May 1 as scheduled before.
      The studio has also pulled the Dev Patel-led drama “The Personal History of David Copperfield” from its Searchlight banner which was originally due on May 8 and Amy Adams’ “The Woman in the Window”, a 20th Century title, which was supposed to be released on April 15. No new dates are announced for these three movies just yet.
      Disney previously delayed the release of the upcoming live-action “Mulan”, “The New Mutants” and “Antlers”, but held off from announcing the postponement for “Black Widow”. Other movies which have been pulled from their original release dates due to coronavirus crisis included “F9”, “No Time to Die”, “A Quiet Place: Part II” and “Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway”.
      Meanwhile, Shawn Robbins, chief analyst at Boxoffice.com, says that moving “Black Widow” could have a “cascading effect” on the rest of Marvel slate. As it has been widely known, every Marvel film contains material that somehow relates to other MCU projects and sometimes includes easter eggs for the next releases. That’s why releasing Marvel films in accordance to their planned order is important.
      Future Marvel releases include Disney+’s series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”, “WandaVision” and “Loki”, which have halted production due to coronavirus, “The Eternals”, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and “Thor: Love and Thunder”.

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      'Avatar' Producers Decide to Hold Off Sequels Production in New Zealand

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      ‘We’re in the midst of a global crisis and this is not about the film industry,’ explains producer Jon Landau when confirming the postponement amid the global coronavirus pandemic.
      Mar 18, 2020
      AceShowbiz – The “Avatar” sequels have halted production in New Zealand amid the global coronavirus pandemic.
      The executive team for the movies had been due to fly from Los Angeles to New Zealand on Friday (March 13), but decided against making the journey as the instances of the Covid-19 virus continued to increase around the world.
      “We’ve delayed it. We had plans to come down Friday night with a group of people and start back up and we made the decision to hold off and continue working here (in Los Angeles), and come down there a little bit later than we’d planned,” producer Jon Landau told the New Zealand Herald newspaper.
      “We’re in the midst of a global crisis and this is not about the film industry. I think everybody needs to do now whatever we can do, as we say here, to flatten the (coronavirus) curve.”
      Sources at the New Zealand Film Commission consequently reported that production had been postponed “until further notice”.
      Work on the sequels has been underway at Stone Street Studios in Wellington and another studio facility at Kumeu near Auckland, in order to allow filming on one movie to take place while the set is built at the other studio.
      Landau previously told Variety that the production schedule currently spans two and a half movies.
      The first sequel, “Avatar 2”, is due for release on 17 December, 2021, followed by “Avatar 3” in December 2023, “Avatar 4” in December 2025 and “Avatar 5” in December 2027.

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      Camila Cabello's 'Cinderella' Goes Into Two-Week Production Hiatus

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      ‘The Batman’ and the third ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ movie have also put its filming in England on hold, joining the growing list of film and TV projects affected by the coronavirus crisis.
      Mar 17, 2020
      AceShowbiz – The forthcoming adaptation of “Cinderella (2021)” has joined the growing list of film and TV shoots halted as the world tackles the coronavirus pandemic.
      Bosses at Sony have decided to send the cast and crew of the project, currently filming at Pinewood Studios in the U.K., home for a planned two-week hiatus.
      Camila Cabello stars in the film, opposite Billy Porter.
      The news comes as “The Batman” and the third “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” movie were also postponed in England.
      Also among the latest film cancellations are Sylvester Stallone’s “Samaritan”, which was being shot in Atlanta, Georgia, and the new Apple TV thriller series “Suspicion”, which recently started filming in the U.K. The Puerto Rico production of “Midnight in the Switchgrass”, starring Megan Fox, Emile Hirsch and Bruce Willis, has also been put on hold just one week into filming.

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      'Cats' Is Dubbed Worst Film and Collects Five Other Trophies at 2020 Razzie Awards

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      The Los Angeles ceremony of the 40th Golden Raspberry Awards was scheduled for March 14, but has to be scrapped after Mayor Eric Garcetti introduced crowd restrictions amid coronavirus pandemic.
      Mar 17, 2020
      AceShowbiz – “Cats” has dominated the 2020 Golden Raspberry Awards, picking up six trophies including Worst Film.
      Tom Hooper’s flop musical also landed him the Worst Director dishonour, while also picking up Worst Screenplay and Worst Supporting Actor and Actress awards (James Corden and Rebel Wilson).
      This year’s actual Golden Raspberry Awards, scheduled for Saturday (March 14), were scrapped as a result of the growing coronavirus pandemic.
      Organizers had planned to press ahead with the irreverent annual Los Angeles ceremony, commonly known as the Razzie Awards, but the weekend prizegiving had to be ditched after Mayor Eric Garcetti introduced restrictions on crowd sizes in public to curb the spread of COVID-19.
      The limitations led to the shut down of The Barnsdall Theatre, where the Razzies were due to be held.
      The full list of 2020 Razzie ‘winners’ is:

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