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By George Robbins

Movie productions have had quite a time trying to get done at the moment considering the fact that the pandemic is making things difficult for companies to work properly. With the pandemic in play, many companies working within the film industry have had to come up with new ways to handle the world we now live in. As such, new guidelines have had to be put into place so that production crews could work in a safer environments where people wouldn’t have to worry so much about catching the virus while they were working. These new guidelines were put into place in more than just movie production crews as they were also put into effect in businesses like movie theaters. As we all know by now, movie theaters have had it the worst among the movie industry and it hasn’t gotten any easier for them as time has gone on.

Movie theaters have had a lot going wrong for them as of late and there is not much that can be done to help them except move forward. While it has been suggested from Christopher Nolan that the film industry as whole should look for better solutions to their problems than just delaying their films, there have been no good ideas to come forward thus far. As such, theaters have mostly shut their doors to the public and even those that haven’t have been losing business hand-over-fist because they can’t get people to come in. This has a lot to do with the fact that people are not willing to take the risk and go out to public theaters even with the new safety guidelines in place to protect them. These guidelines have been both helpful and harmful in the theater industry as they limit the overall number of people who can be in the building simultaneously. Obviously this helps prevent spread of the virus but it has a detrimental effect for the business.

When a company relies heavily upon having as many people present as possible to make their money, it becomes problematic when they aren’t allowed to bring that many people in. On top of that, many people like going out to theaters with both friends and family and when they can’t readily do so, it no longer becomes fun for them to try. Therefore, movie theaters only ended up in even more trouble because they couldn’t readily convince people to go out and see movies. The final straw that broke theaters was the fact that people are really only mostly interested in going to theaters as a way of seeing entirely new films. Unfortunately, there has pretty much been a lack of those new films over the past months due to the pandemic and worry from companies that people won’t want to go see them during this time period. This fear was correct, but it is also a part of the problem that theaters now have to face on a regular basis.

With a lack of variety in films at theaters, there is yet another reason why people may not want to go out to theaters because they wouldn’t have anything there that they want to watch. So now, people are just sitting at home waiting patiently along with studios for the time when things get just good enough in the world that releasing new movies will seem like a good idea. When that time finally arrives, new movies will become readily available, but until then, there are countless productions being worked on to make up for the lack of productions going out into the public. This isn’t really anything new though as there have always been countless productions going on in the world, it is just that things are more complicated now. They are just getting these upcoming movies ready for what is to come in the, hopefully, not-too-distant future, but it is more difficult now than usual.

For movie productions to actually get to work properly, they must follow the new health and safety guidelines the same way all other companies must. If they don’t follow the new guidelines then they simply aren’t allowed to work on any projects that they have coming up due to safety concerns for the crews. This has resulted in many different productions all over the world having to be pushed back significantly to make sure they were up to code. None of that necessarily mattered at all though because movie releases were being pushed back regardless of what was going on with movie productions. There are now many movies that have been finished and are prepped for theatrical release that just got pushed back tremendously, so it doesn’t matter if other movies still being worked on get pushed back either.

Among the movies still being worked on, there are plenty that have had the opportunity to start back up again and ended up being shut down for a short time yet again. This is because if anyone tests positive for the virus, then the whole production gets put on lockdown for the required two weeks. This may be an annoyance to the studios, but it does really help the films in the end as they are ultimately being worked on harder than ever. On the overall list of productions that are being worked on so hard is the ‘Jurassic World: Dominion‘ production that began in earnest earlier this year. It figures that when they had just begun working on the production that they almost immediately had to shut down because that was when the pandemic first began.

Despite the long shut down that they were forced to sit through before they could resume filming, there was actually a lot of work that ended up being done in the meantime. This ended up being a huge help for the production without people even realizing it at first because it meant that work could be done on the CGI stuff at home while everyone else was given time to work on other projects or even take some time off. In the end, the first shut down they had ended up helping them get work done as they could concentrate solely on the CGI instead of trying to multi-task. Considering the fact that this is meant to be the last film in the new ‘Jurassic World‘ trilogy, it is a pretty big deal that this film ends up being a well put together film. With that in mind, it has been pretty rough for them recently as they had to recently shut down again due to confirmed cases, but this hasn’t deterred them in any way, shape, or form.

‘Jurassic World: Dominion’s’ most recent shut down obviously occurred as there were positive virus cases reported on the production set. This resulted in a full shut down of the set in accordance with the health and safety guidelines with only a few weeks left in regards to the filming of the movie. Even though it became impossible for them to work on the upcoming final film in the new trilogy, the fact remains that they have plenty of time before the currently set release date for the film. It is due to this that there isn’t really any worry about getting the film done on time and they are still fine with the way that things are going. If anything, they think that this will actually make the film better by the end of production and by the time of the film’s release. More specifically, it is director Colin Trevorrow that believes that this is the case when it comes to the movie’s production.

Trevorrow believes that although the new guidelines and safety protocols that were put in place were difficult for the overall production, it helped make the movie better in the end. With the new protocols in place, everyone had to stay on set close to one another which only made the experience more surreal for all of them who felt the same emotional weight thrust upon them while working on the film. If everyone on the set has this common thing between them all, then they can come together and make a better film with all of their emotion behind them. In a creative capacity, this allows for plenty of different interactions to happen which could make the overall movie better in the end. Unfortunately, it will be a long time before we have the opportunity to see whether this ended up working out for them in the end or not, but we can certainly remain hopeful between then and now.