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Virtual Hollywood is a narrative-driven coalition of leaders for those who are pushing the edge of the universe for innovative solutions to keep the Hollywood machine well-oiled.  As numerous Hollywood studios, guilds, lobby groups, streamers, technologist and local politicians form task forces to blueprint how the industry can safely get back to work amid the coronavirus pandemic, a group of community transactionist led by Lou Libin, Terrence Coles, Kecia Washington (LACI),  Simone Nelson, La Mer Walker, and Dave Cohen are coming together to provide a glimpse of who may be working at this time next year in the creative-tech economy.

With a plan that could easily be scaled for TV series and feature films, about 100 commercial production designers and art directors are circulating a dense but succinct six-point COVID-19 workflow considerations document, a copy of which you can (read it here). Among the recommendations contained in the self-described “open-ended” document, which was just posted online here, is the creation of a new position on all production sets to address the realities and lingering

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What will a post-pandemic Hollywood look like? We asked Hollywood

From director’s chairs to executive suites to movie theater seats, no element of Hollywood will be untouched as society movies forward from the pandemic. We asked people all around the industry what the future might look like.

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How will movie theaters make customers feel safe after coronavirus?

Movie theaters might start opening up as soon as mid-June. That’s going to be more complicated than it sounds.

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‘Trolls World Tour’ shattered the rules. Why more movies are set to premiere at home

The releases of “Trolls World Tour,” “The Lovebirds” and “Artemis Fowl” illustrate the different ways studios are navigating the COVID-19 pandemic.

Film kiss with surgical mask to prevent influenza during a Hollywood epidemic (1937) pic.twitter.com/SIURvkSbXx — Salvador San Vicente (@SSVphotographer) May 15, 2020 Today’s roundup of L.A. #tech & #startup news: 🗞️Hollywood studios lose at least 14K jobs in 2 mos 🗞️Child privacy advocates take aim at TikTok 🗞️Headspace makes app free to unemployed 🗞️Brian Lee on L.A.’s tech futurehttps://t.co/0t6inRyZOr#TechLA — dot.LA (@dotLA) May 15, 2020 Film production is shut down but documentaries are still being made. Here’s how From a look at Barack Obama’s White House photographer to a personal production on the streets of Germany, many documentaries are still in production during quarantine thanks to technology, smaller crews and archival footage. 2020 has plenty of promising Oscar contenders … if the Oscars actually happen With movie theaters closed for at least a significant chunk of the year, the impact on awards season is not yet known, but several Oscar contenders will be ready to go when moviegoing resumes. Here are all the movies Hollywood is still planning to open this summer The wide releases that are still planning to open between the Fourth of July and Labor Day include “Tenet,” “Mulan” and “Wonder Woman 1984.”