Asia’s stuttering film and TV production outlook stems in large measure from the relative caution with which the region’s governments have approached the coronavirus outbreak.
Calling on experience garnered with several recent bouts of epidemic disease, governments around the Asia-Pacific region quickly urged their populations to mask up. Then they locked the borders. Most of Asia has remained that way since March.
The more-developed territories in Asia have achieved far lower Covid-19 infection and death rates than countries in Europe and the U.S., and some local production behind mostly closed borders has resumed.
New Zealand’s decision to go “hard and early” against the virus quickly shut down the “Avatar” series, which was already shooting, Amazon Prime Video’s epic “The Lord of the Rings” series and Jane Campion’s Netflix-bound “Power of the Dog.” That they have all since returned is testament to self-isolation, quickly...
Calling on experience garnered with several recent bouts of epidemic disease, governments around the Asia-Pacific region quickly urged their populations to mask up. Then they locked the borders. Most of Asia has remained that way since March.
The more-developed territories in Asia have achieved far lower Covid-19 infection and death rates than countries in Europe and the U.S., and some local production behind mostly closed borders has resumed.
New Zealand’s decision to go “hard and early” against the virus quickly shut down the “Avatar” series, which was already shooting, Amazon Prime Video’s epic “The Lord of the Rings” series and Jane Campion’s Netflix-bound “Power of the Dog.” That they have all since returned is testament to self-isolation, quickly...
- 9/9/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
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