Tribeca Film Festival Migrates Programs Online, Founder-CEO Jane Rosenthal Devastated ‘We Can’t Gather’ But Wants To Keep Filmmakers Connected

By Dade Hayes

The Coronavirus outbreak has put a halt to almost everything around the world. As countries have resorted to stricter rules for curbing the entire situation and combating the deadly virus, multiple events and occasions have been cancelled to date.

The Venice Film Festival will go ahead as planned in September, with organizers promising to defy the threat of the coronavirus pandemic.

By Mackenzie Nichols

Various filmmakers across the world look forward to showcasing their content at the highly anticipated Cannes Film Festival every year. This year too, the things were going as planned till the organisers decided to delay the event amid the ongoing Coronavirus Pandemic.

By Pete Hammond

Cannes Film Festival bosses are committed to staging an event to mark 2020 once the coronavirus restrictions have been relaxed, but they insist any gathering will not look like the typical South of France celebration.

«What are next year's Oscars going to look like?» It's a question the industry, awards forecasters and armchair pundits alike have been wondering as release schedules are scuttled and film festivals are canned amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

«What are next year's Oscars going to look like?» It's a question the industry, awards forecasters and armchair pundits alike have been wondering as release schedules are scuttled and film festivals are canned amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

PARIS — The Cannes Film Festival will not take place this year in “its original form” due to the coronavirus pandemic but organizers said they continued to review options for the event.

By Andreas Wiseman

By Mackenzie Nichols

By Anthony D'Alessandro

The Tribeca Film Festival, postponed by the pandemic, is moving some elements of its annual New York event online.

NEW YORK -- The Tribeca Film Festival, postponed by the pandemic, is moving some elements of its annual New York event online.

By Ramin Setoodeh

The 2020 Toronto Film Festival, set to run Sept. 10-20 in Toronto, is weighing options to go online and remain, where possible, with a physical event amid planning concerns surrounding the new coronavirus outbreak.

The Palais des Festivals, the main complex used for the Cannes Film Festival each year has been repurposed to shelter the homeless during the coronavirus outbreak that has taken hold of most countries around the globe. The huge centre has reportedly opened its doors to around 50-70 homeless people per night in the coastal city in the south of France. It reportedly opened its doors last Friday.

In today’s film news roundup, Canada’s largest LGBTQ film festival gets postponed, the commercial industry’s health plan addresses the coronavirus pandemic and Margaret Qualley’s “A Head Full of Ghosts” finds a home.

BuzzFeed, hoping to forestall layoffs with an economic downturn of the COVID-19 pandemic already under way, is reducing the salaries of most employees. CEO Jonah Peretti said he won’t be taking any compensation until the crisis has passed.