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As with much of life around the world, film and television production has ground to a halt because of the coronavirus pandemic — leaving stars, stylists, directors, studio chiefs, grips, writers, set builders, trailer cutters, agents and scores of other specialized Hollywood workers at home and confronting the same question almost everyone has: Now what?

Across the industry, shooting is not expected to resume until August, in part because of the time it will take to reassemble casts and crews once the coronavirus threat subsides. That leaves a vast number of people without work. Hollywood supports 2.5 million jobs, according to the Motion Picture Association of America; many workers are freelancers, getting paid project to project.

Others in Hollywood, especially those on the upper end of moviedom’s caste system, are still working, albeit remotely.

David Oyelowo has been trying to finish his directorial debut, “The Water Man,” a tender family drama that counts Oprah Winfrey as an executive producer.

Filming and editing are done. The original plan was to record the music with a 40-person orchestra in Macedonia, he said. Now, eight musicians will gather in Brussels in the next month to perform multiple parts that will then be layered together by a sound mixer in Nashville.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/business/stock-market-live-trading-coronavirus.html