Chinese Industry Pulls Out of Berlin's European Film Market Amid Coronavirus Crisis

Coronavirus cases surged in Italy, and France closed the world-famous Louvre Museum on Sunday as the deadly outbreak that began in China sent fear rising across Western Europe, threatening its tourism industry. The number of countries hit by the virus has climbed past 60, and the death toll worldwide has reached at least 3,000.

Avril Lavigne has cancelled 12 shows which were scheduled to take place across Asia as part of her Head Above Water Tour.

It’s a brave young director who has the gumption to revisit Alfred Doblin’s 1929 Weimar Republic classic Berlin Alexanderplatz. A 1931 film version directed by Piel Jutzi was notably followed by Rainer W.

Exhibition giant AMC Theatres, which is owned by China's Dalian Wanda Group, on Thursday reported it swung to a fourth-quarter loss on lower U.S. theater attendance and a one-time impairment charge, even as overall revenues rose 2.4 percent.

Shares of top Hollywood media stocks on Monday fell in value on a new wave of concern that the coronavirus outbreak has spread widely beyond China. Shares in Walt Disney fell by $5.96, or nearly 4.3 percent, to $133.01 as its Hong Kong and Shanghai theme parks remain closed to curb the spread of coronavirus and the studio's live-action remake of Mulan, set for release in China on March 27, faces a costly delay if cinemas in that market don't open soon.

A little bit of the Berlinale is here at Hollywood News today, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, I’ve got a Berlin International Film Festival review to file.

Berlin’s European Film Market has gotten off to a slow start — but there are signs of life. Leonine, the new German studio formed last year by KKR’s acquisition and merger of German indies Tele Munchen Group and Universum, picked up German-speaking rights for the Gerard Butler action thriller Remote Control from STXinternational in a mid-seven-figure deal, the largest reported pact of the EFM so far.

In today’s film news roundup, Noomi Rapace gets a starring role, ArcLight Cinemas hires Ted Mundorff and a “Karn Evil 9” movie is in the works.

As the coronavirus continues to spread throughout China, infecting more than 43,000 people globally and causing more than 1,300 deaths so far, Justin Bieber is doing what he can to support.

By Tom Grater

With nearly all of China's 70,000 movie theaters still weeks — if not months — awayfrom reopening, many in the Beijing film industry have begun to hope for government bailouts as the only means of keeping their businesses afloat.The cinema sector, to be sure, is just one of many areas of the enormous Chinese economy that has been hard hit by the novel coronavirus pneumonia, now officially known as COVID-19.

Hollywood's business interests in China are beginning to take a significant hit from the coronavirus crisis.

Vanessa Hudgens found herself at the centre of backlash after sharing a picture many deemed in “poor taste” amid the coronavirus crisis in China.