Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV.com: As the Eastern Seaboard awaits the full strength of the formidable hurricane Sandy, its impact is already being felt in Hollywood via a slew of theater and production closures in many northeastern cities.
The widespread closures of all major businesses include theater chains like AMC, Regal, Clearview and Angelika, some of which remained open Sunday night but are closed all day Monday. Broadway went dark after its Sunday matinee performances, as all Sunday and Monday evening shows were canceled.
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I didn't predict that Hurricane Sandy would be as big of a deal as it was. I didn't know why everyone was making such a fuss over it; I even thought it was kind of disrespectful. I thought about the victims of natural disasters such as Katrina, which was a category 5 as compared to this mere category 1. People who literally lost everything. But then I realized that it's not all about the category. The location which Sandy hit was not built to stand up to the forces or the flooding that Sandy brought. It didn't think it had to be. So there ARE people who ended up losing everything due to this disaster as well. It especially hits close to home because I am fron just north of the area that was hardest hit, and even more so after reading this article. It affected people I know personally as well as the industry in which I work.
I was very surprised to see how a natural disaster can affect so much things beyond. Not only it affects neighborhood and people, but also it affects country's entertainment. I think this hurricane, Sandy, had been worse because it shut down many theaters from opening. This affects all audiences, producers, movies, and theaters. It is also heartbreaking to hear a damage of an industry that I am interested in. This delay and damage in TV production will have a great after effect too because since some of shows were halted, a broadcasting's whole schedule must be modified. Also, it will disappoint fans who have been waiting for the episode to come out. I hope these problems to be solved as soon as possible and TV or Film productions can be lively again.
I don't think the affect on the film indusrty will be as bad as they are predicting. for one thing, the east coast is not the only place where people go to movies. If the reviews in across the rest of the country are strong enough, it won't matter that New York closed down it's theaters. During the storm. When they open back up, people will still want to see movies and the film that came out in the heat of the storm will still be there. As for the show that were currently filming, that a different matter entirely. The profits lost in both damage and lost recording time can't be small. Bigger budget show will obviously rebound but it will still have an effect on the season (especially in terms of cutting episodes to still finish filming in time). At the same time, natural disasters are part of life, so hopeful the shows though ahead and have plans for how to deal with the issues they are now encountering.
I feel like weather is something we are going to have to get more prepared for. Experts say it is only going to get worse and worse. We need to start thinking ahead and having solutions to the problems storms will create. New York is really in a tough spot and I'm not sure what they can do to prepare, but its something they should think about the next time a hurricane hits. I think we were lucky it was only a category 1.
I find it sort of difficult to be concerned about a few films in the midst of Sandy. I agree with Jenni that the affects probably won't be quite as bad as they were expecting, but I'm sure it will be affected. Unpredictable events happen and influence the reception of films, live productions, etc., but that's a given. It's certainly too bad that some of those films won't do as well, and of course that too will affect many people, but really that doesn't seem like something to worry about in relation to the storm which has devastated many many people.
This, and other articles about the closing of other entertainment businesses in preparation for Sandy, strike me as a little insensitive. I do understand absolutely that the storm affected these industries and may have caused them to lose time, money, and possible future revenue. However, I'm finding it incredibly hard on any level to really sympathize with those in this article, especially with its focus on the ticket sales for Hollywood feature films. Obviously, everyone from Broadway stars to Hollywood actors to technicians depends on a paycheck from the entertainment industry, and revenue loss could be detrimental to jobs, but for the movies this article mentions, a small decrease in box office sales is not going to cost people their jobs. That might not be the case with a small off-Broadway theatre and its ticket sales, and so I might be able to have more sympathy if the article focused on that rather than huge multi-billion dollar production companies.
Gonna have to disagree with Cat here. Just because the company is a multi billion dollar industry doesnt mean they can afford to just shut down. putting butts in seats is how they continue to run their show... and if no seats are filled it still costs money to be in a venue, and other various costs. organizations of all scales were affected by sandy. sandy ended up being ridiculously over media-hyped but that was better than it turning into a katrina like incident.
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