As countries begin to ease lockdown measures put in place to flatten the COVID-19 curve, film and TV studios are working out how to get back to the business of show.
- Australian soap Neighbours restarts production, with social distancing to protect cast and crew.
- Cinemas closed around the world; revenues could fall by $17 billion by May.
- Netflix and the straight-to-digital release of Trolls: World Tour have benefited.
- When cinemas open, social distancing and hygiene measures will be needed.
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In Australia, production is resuming on long-running soap opera Neighbours
– with the cast social distancing on set and special camera angles to make characters appear closer together.
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The new normal will include having no more than 100 people in any area of filming per day; no intimate scenes; the male actors wont wear make-up, and there will be a nurse on set, Chris Oliver-Taylor, the chief executive of the shows production company Fremantle Australia, told ABC News.
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