Why the lockdown triggers a chain reaction and which films will disappear from the cinema program.
When Austria went into lockdown mode on March 16, the global film industry was already in turmoil. Filming for the third “Fantastic Beasts” film was due to start in London on the same day. Warner Studios had recently stopped filming a Batman film with Robert Pattinson. The work for the seventh and eighth part of “Mission Impossible” in Italy was stopped in February. The production of an Elvis biopic was stopped in March after actor Tom Hanks tested positive for Covid-19. Also affected are the shootings for two “Avatar” sequels in New Zealand, for a fourth “Matrix” film in Berlin, for the real film remake of Disney’s “Arielle, the Mermaid”, for a “Jurassic World” sequel. . .
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