Hollywood shutdown : production, distribution, and exhibition in the time of COVID

By March 2020, the spread of COVID-19 had reached pandemic proportions, forcing widespread shutdowns across industries, including Hollywood. Studios, networks and production companies, and the thousands of workers who make film and television possible, were forced to adjust their time-honored business and labor practices. In this book, Kate Fortmueller asks what happened when the coronavirus closed Hollywood. Hollywood Shutdown examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected film and television production, influenced trends in distribution, reshaped theatrical exhibition, and altered labor practices. From January movie theater closures in China to the bumpy September release of Mulan on the Disney+ streaming platform, Fortmueller probes various choices made by studios, networks, unions and guilds, distributors, and exhibitors during the evolving crisis. In seeking to explain what happened in the first nine months of 2020, this book also considers how the pandemic will transform Hollywood practices in the twenty-first century. cinema industry Table of Contents 6 List of Abbreviations 8 Introduction. Hollywood Responds to a Pandemic 12 1. Production 19 2. Distribution 49 3. Exhibition 79 Conclusion. Where Do We Go from Here? 105 Acknowledgments 110 Notes 112 Index 125 film,production;,pandemic,studies;,Covid,and,business;,film,studies;,cinema,studies film production,pandemic studies,Covid and business,film studies,cinema studies A concise and timely analysis of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on film and television production, distribution, and exhibition in the first nine months of 2020.