Berghain Cancels Events Through the Spring Due to Coronavirus Concerns

Till Lindemann, lead singer for the industrial-metal band Rammstein, has been diagnosed with coronavirus, according to the German newspaper Bild.

BERLIN — German collection society GEMA is rolling out a €40 million euro emergency aid program in an effort to help support its members during the coronavirus pandemic."It is already foreseeable that the economic consequences of the pandemic will be devastating for the entire creative industry," said Dr. Harald Heker, GEMA CEO.

Kelsea Ballerini has been left disappointed after having to cancel a host of plans she’d made to support the release of her new album due to the coronavirus pandemic.

"It all happened so much more quickly and drastically than anyone was expecting"

On March 11, the United States initiated a travel ban from Europe to limit the spread of coronavirus, causing confusion and pandemonium. Around that same time, Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Mackenzie Scott was in Berlin, playing one of the last shows of her European tour behind Silver Tongue, her fourth album as Torres.

The Matrix has joined the growing list of movies shut down due to coronavirus concerns.

Sony is the latest studio to pause filming on a major movie, halting pre-production on “Uncharted” for six weeks.

Warner Bros. has decided to shutter production on “The Matrix” as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread.

Warner Bros. has shut down production on the upcoming fourth film in “The Matrix” franchise.

© Getty 23 July 2019, Berlin: Liam Gallagher, British musician, recorded at the edge of a dpa interview. The British singer and former Oasis front man is not too good to speak of the future British Prime Minister Johnson. Photo: Britta Pedersen/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa - ATTENTION: For editorial use only ! (Photo by Britta Pedersen/picture alliance via Getty Images) Liam Gallagher still plans to get married in Italy - despite the threat of coronavirus.

Earlier this week, Berlin’s Berghain—a dance club infamous for its anything-goes darkrooms—announced it was canceling all upcoming “self-produced events” and effectively going dark through April 20. At Barcelona’s Sala Apolo, the lights will stay off for at least the next two weeks, its wooden floorboards gleaming dully in the emptiness.

ViacomCBS said it would cancel the glitzy “upfront” sales event it holds each year to convince advertisers to commit millions of dollars to its programming, the latest sign of how the spreading coronavirus crisis is affecting the dynamics of the media industry.

The new measure comes into force today

No Coachella, no problem.

BERLIN — The German collection society GEMA has postponed its annual award ceremony for the German Music Author's Prize, scheduled for Thursday (March 12), citing recommendations from health authorities over coronavirus concerns. The organization said that a replacement date will announced soon. The meeting of the Academy of German Music Authors on March 13 will also be rescheduled.

An impoverished laborer returns home one day to find that social services have taken his children, after the family’s increasingly dire circumstances push his wife to commit a desperate act. With a corrupt local administrator blocking the way to a fair hearing to get them back, the man decides to cross the country on foot in order to plead his case to the government in Belgrade.

Overshadowed by a grisly, racially motivated shooting in western Germany and the growing pains of new festival leadership, this year’s Berlinale served to illuminate the market dynamics and global issues set to impact the international film and television industry in the run-up to Cannes — provided coronavirus stays away from the Croisette.

Most people would put their feet up and give themselves a rest if they had broken their shoulder.