ShortList 2020: ‘Cosmic Fling’ Director Anticipated Life in Isolation Even Before the Pandemic

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerEverybody knows, as Leonard Cohen once sang. Everybody knows the music business has taken a hit this year, as there’s no live music, TV and film production is down, releases are being held back, and ad revenues from streaming are diminished.But here’s an eye-opener, courtesy of a report in Music Business Worldwide:  The industry is still generating about one million dollars per hour of streaming.

As some showrunners continue to grapple with the decision to write the coronavirus pandemic into their series, Joanna Johnson took a different approach: writing a new series about the pandemic. Freeform's Love in the Time of Corona is a four-episode miniseries about the struggles of connecting with other people in a time where safety mandates six feet of separation.

Love in the Time of Corona, found inspiration in the new circumstances and created an interesting workaround to kept everyone safe while filming pushed forward. It was a gargantuan task, but here's how this limited-series got the cameras rolling when everything else in Hollywood was still on lockdown.The first concept for the show was introduced to showrunner Joanna Johnson soon after her other project, Good Trouble, shutdown production in March.

There’s zero doubt that Gwen Stefani is head over heels with her country singer boyfriend, Blake Shelton, and it turns out that one of the many reasons why is the fact that he is so involved in her three sons’ lives and whole raising process! One insider report claims to know that Blake, despite not having any biological kids of his own, is a complete ‘natural’ with Gwen’s boys! However, the source tells HollywoodLife that this was not always the case.

Things look to be going swimmingly for not only Gwen Stefani, 50, and Blake Shelton, 44, but for his relationship with her three sons Kingston, 14, Zuma, 11, and Apollo, 6 (who she shares with ex-husband Gavin Rossdale, 54). “Blake is a fun guy who is completely natural with Gwen‘s kids,” a source revealed to HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY.

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Also Read: ShortList 2020: How 'Girl in the Hallway' Animates a Heartbreaking Tale of Abduction and Murder (Video)“Sticker” follows Dejan, a beleaguered father trying to get to his daughter’s dance recital…only to end up in an escalating crisis thanks to a simple office error. Stumbling through an overcrowded DMV office, he is told that the office has run out of stickers for vehicle registration.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAt the start of 2020, a television show featuring friends and family locked down in their respective homes as a deadly pandemic ravaged the globe would have been labeled as a dystopian drama and been treated as escapist entertainment for those looking to immerse themselves in a world completely unlike their own.

Also Read: 'Black Is King' Film Review: Beyoncé Gets Extravagant With Opulent Riff on 'The Lion King'The idea for “T” came to her quickly, Witherspoon said, from the verité-style footage of participants in the ball to the flashes of dance and music that run through the film and were a product of her collaboration with visual artist and costume designer Mumbi O’Brien. But, she added, she did get cold feet when she got into the editing room.

Also Read: ShortList 2020: How a 'Creepy' A Cappella Group Inspired the Dark Comedy 'The Devil's Harmony' (Video)In the film, one of the friends has left South London and become very successful; the other still lives in the old neighborhood and deals drugs. They meet in the shop and have a polite conversation over chicken wings, but their history comes out between the lines, augmented by flashbacks to the two men as children in the same shop.

Watch “The Clinic” above. Viewers can also screen the films at any time during the festival at Shortlistfilmfestival.com and vote from Aug. 6-19.(Tap photo and swipe to view gallery)

Wayne Fontana was a singer with the Mindbenders known for their 1965 No. 1 hit, “The Game of Love.”Fontana was still a teen when he formed Wayne Fontana the Mindbenders in 1963 in his native Manchester, England, taking his stage name from Elvis Presley’s drummer, D.J.

Watch “Broken Orchestra” above. Viewers can also screen the films at any time during the festival at Shortlistfilmfestival.com and vote from Aug. 6-20.(Tap photo and swipe to view gallery)

“‘Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa’ was conceived with a sense of urgency in the aftermath of the 2016 election,” Goldwater said of the film, a finalist for TheWrap’s ShortList Film Festival. “Barbara and I surveyed the bleak political scenario for an untold “story” that would shed a light on the increased suffering we feared this presidency would bring.

Amber Davies has revealed some of her Famous Firsts in an exclusive video with OK! online.The 23 year old shot to fame as the winner of Love Island in 2017 alongside Kem Cetinay, but has now revealed her trip to ITV2's villa wasn't her first time on television. Blonde bombshell Amber sat down to speak to us about her first time in front of the camera at a very young age after giving us a tour of her new Essex home.

“I had the original idea because I was making a music video for an a cappella club and I realized how incredibly creepy they are, and I realized that that could be a starting point for a high school horror short,” Williams, one of the finalists in TheWrap’s ShortList Film Festival, told TheWrap. “Some of them have seen it, one of them is now a director, and he said it’s a very accurate description of what it’s like to be in an a cappella group.

Also Read: The ShortList Film Festival 2020 Finalists Announced: Watch and Vote for Your Favorite Films!The film centers on Jeremiah, a young Black boy learning the unwritten rules of manhood and masculinity in the Black community through his father. But while his father tries to instill in him and his older brother what it means to be a man, he’s trying to understand what it means for himself.