Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Box Office: How China’s Coronavirus Crackdown May Impact Hollywood
www.forbes.com: The Chinese premiere of No Time to Die has been canceled over ongoing concerns with the coronavirus epidemic that has impacted China over the last two months, the Sunday Times reports. While theaters may open in time for the film’s mid-April release, the splashy in-country promotional tour and red-carpet screening are officially off the books.
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I knew Coronavirus was a major concern in China and that people had died from this disease, however I did not realize the severity. I didn’t know that over 1700 people have died so far with many more impacted. I also didn’t realize how much of a total impact that the Chinese movie industry had on the success of many films. I really like how this article does provide some examples of films that were not as impacted on the Chinese. Both sides of these examples help influence the larger argument surrounding the severity of the impact coronavirus is about to have on the film industry. From an educational standpoint where you are taught to look at things analytically, this article is substantial and provides good evidence to analyze. Based on this wide array of evidence, I do think that the film industry as a whole is going to suffer due to the closings of theatres and the lack of promotional screenings due to the concern of coronavirus.
The severity of Coronavirus is widespread in China and with the statistics provided in the article, the statement only strengthens. But the figures that they have provided are genuinely very sad to read about: the amount of lives affected by the virus and its subsequent consequences is potentially one of the saddest things that have ever happened.
I was not really concerned with the whole conversation of the entertainment industry taking a hit because of this cause genuinely speaking, the statistics in the article have so much more value than just to the entertainment value that I could not help but pay little to no attention to that part of the article. The article deals with a topic of emergency that according to me superseded the value of the entertainment aspect and I could be wrong but this article really does carry statistics that are enough to distract the reader from the title of the article.
The coronavirus has a widespread impact on China’s economy, due to the sheer fact that China (going against many of it’s beliefs and values as a country in the current political climate) has shutdown it’s borders to protect the rest of the world from a potential pandemic virus. It is no surprise to me that this economic impact has spread to their arts economy, and will effect the United States, since the global arts community is so interdependent on one another. Similar to Reesha, I think my concern is less with the amount of damage it is potentially doing to the arts economy and this articles statistics surrounding that were minute in comparison to the amount of damage it is doing to an entire country’s population, and also people who are Asian who are now having to deal with the xenophobia and racism that is connected to this epidemic. Yes it is concerning to see the economic impact this is having on the arts, but it is even more concerning to see that currently there is no end in sight to the damage that Coronavirus is inflicting.
I remember reading this article two weeks ago and being like, “Oh it is no doubt that the Coronavirus Crackdown in China would impact industries all over the world. It could cost a huge loss in the global economy, but it is not like industries are losing the whole target market” as if I have nothing to do with this event. Now, I had to scroll down all the way to come back to this article. Although this article is mainly about the movie industry, allow me to comment on it from theatre maker’s point of view. This week, along with the increase in the number of people infected with the coronavirus in the country, Japan’s health minister urged the public to avoid “non-essential gatherings.” Many public events got cancelled including the musical by the theatre company I belong. They had been preparing for more than a month and their performances were coming up this week. Unlike movies, live performances cannot be stored as a piece of data. We are just a student organization, we have no budget nor time to spare. The show will never come into the light. As the article argues, the box-office revenue is important. But I think this whole event is not only about money. It is also about uneasy feelings of makers, creators, participants and audiences, who realized how fragile the industry of performance art and entertainment is.
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