Disney Stops Paying 100,000 Workers, Nearly Half Its Workforce, Saving $500 Million A Month; Customary Semi-Annual Billion-Plus Dividend Not Yet Declared For 2020; “Mr. Iger earned $47 million last year, his latest package more than 900 times that of median Disney worker earnings; Mr Chapek could earn an annual bonus “of not less than 300% of salary, in addition to a long-term incentive award of ‘not less than $15 million.'”

Pete Wells: “For small restaurants that were already a few slow nights away from bankruptcy, hopes of coming back grow more remote with every day they wait for help to arrive. ‘There has to be a say from the 11 million workers, the hundreds of thousands of small businesses that make up the hospitality industry. Not just the major conglomerates.'”

In The Heights Shifts To June 2021

“We appreciate your efforts in navigating this pandemic for the betterment of our communities.”
Chicago Tribune Scythes Another Layer Of Journalists, With Demand Of Lengthy Furlough Or Severance

“Hair and makeup, for example. The low-budget model of key hair, key makeup and day-playing additionals will go by the wayside as name cast will insist on their own personal H/MU teams — people who touch only them. Art departments will no longer share tools. Craft-service will change to everything being single-serve and sealed. Holding areas will be bigger to allow for social distancing. Meal areas too. Temperature checks will start the day — but what do you do when your DP tests at 99.9? Pushing through while feeling under the weather won’t be an option. Look for shooting schedules to compensate for more downtime. Insurers are likely to exclude COVID-19. Employees will sign indemnification waivers protecting the production if they get sick. Will name actors want to squeeze in an indie between better-paid studio and episodic shoots if there’s a risk of them getting sick?”

Thirty-Nine Films, Mostly Shorts, That Did Not Premiere At SXSW Will Appear On Amazon Prime, Briefly Free From April 27; Four Features From Other Countries; Three Doc Features; One Episode of “Tales From The Loop,” Already On Amazon Prime

To The Manner Born: Elon Green Profiles The Late Artist Peter Beard, “King Of Old Montauk”

Cassian Elwes: “This summer is over before it got started. Catastrophic for the studios this year.”

Art-House America GoFundMe Passes $500,000 Goal

Errol Morris: “Watched Michael Powell’s [And Pressburger’s] A Matter of Life and Death. The perfect combination of romance and weirdness. Just when I was really starting to hate movies, I realized I love movies. It’s all a dream, isn’t it…?”

“Megan Colligan said that Imax, which has 1,529 large-format commercial theaters around the world has been strategizing about how to “create the strongest gust of wind possible” when reopening happens. “There’s a lot of conversation about how to come back really strong — healthy, robust — and not have a lull. Within this horribleness lies an opportunity to assess and improve your day-to-day business — all of those things you say you would fix if you only had the time. What should we do more often? What should stop doing? The surprising thing to me is how long these days are. It’s phone call to phone call to phone call, and suddenly you’ve been working for 11 hours.”

HBO Max Releasing Kirby Dick-Amy Ziering Sundance Doc On Sexual Harassment By Record Industry Figures That Oprah And Apple Plus Found Too Hot

A Letter to the World from 92-Year-Old Joss Ackland 2:20 video

“I see it as a circle. Sometimes, when people ask me: ‘How’s it going?’ I enjoy saying: ‘It’s going round.’ It always goes around.”
Elliot Gould, At Large, At Length

“It is something that haunts my entire life. I don’t mean in a bad way. It’s just a presence in my life that will stay with me long after I’m gone.”
Nancy Olson On Sunset BLVD. at Seventy

They released photos from Dune by Denis Villeneuve.
I have zero interest in Dune.
Why’s that?
Because it was a heartache for me. It was a failure and I didn’t have final cut. I’ve told this story a billion times. It’s not the film I wanted to make. I like certain parts of it very much — but it was a total failure for me.
You would never see someone else’s adaptation of Dune?
I said I’ve got zero interest.

The Batman Moves, For Now, To At Least Late October; Venom: Let There Be Carnage Now Summer 2021

“I first got to know Peter Beard the best way—not at a party or a club, but through his work. People are full of stories about his carousing, but the fact is that his intensity as a writer, a traveler, a photographer and an artist are what stands out for me.”

“Mr. Beard became famous for embellishing his photographic prints with ink and blood — either human (his own) or animal (from a butcher) — yielding complex, cryptic, multilayered surfaces. He was also known for the idiosyncratic, genre-bending diaries that he had kept since he was a boy — profuse assemblages of words, images and found objects like stones, feathers, train tickets and toenail clippings — and for the large, even more profuse collages to which the diaries later gave wing. But as renowned as he was for his work (he received solo exhibitions at the International Center of Photography in Manhattan, the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris and elsewhere), Mr. Beard remained at least as well known for his swashbuckling, highly public private life. Even by the dashing standards of wildlife photography, his résumé was the stuff of high drama, full of daring, danger, romance and tall tales, many of them actually true. Had Mr. Beard not already existed, he might well have been the result of a collaborative brain wave by Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Paul Bowles.”

Georgia to Reopen Movie Theaters on April 27, Setting Commercial Rent Clocks Back In Motion

Most Movie Theaters in Georgia Won’t Reopen Despite Governor Kemp’s Intentions

Margaret Atwood Lockdown Diary As “Eccentric Self-Isolationist”