How is Tyler Perry starting production in July? Testing the cast and crew when they arrive at Tyler Perry Studios and 4 more times during the shoots. Everyone on set will wear masks and meals will be in pods. Oh, and everyone involved is living on campus
announced May 12 that he will begin production at his Atlanta-based Tyler Perry Studios on the second season of his BET show “Sistas” on July 8, and “The Oval” three weeks later. As he ramps up production, Perry will be among the very first in the business to put into action a profusion of untested ideas that have preoccupied the entertainment industry on how to get back to work in the age of COVID-19..
In one harried week in mid-March, as COVID-19 cases and deaths were multiplying everywhere, Hollywood scrambled to shut down, and doing so has exacted a severe financial toll across the industry, as well as on the cities that rely on production as a key economic engine. The even harder work, however, lies ahead: the painstaking — and costly — process of opening back up.
But one producer engaged in an overall studio deal believes that in order to get back in business, people need to shift from the mindset of taking no risks at all to making production as safe as possible — which, yes, does involve risk. The producer, who did not want to be identified, says pre-production can happen remotely, as can post-production: “We just have to figure out the filming.”
For many of the biggest-scaled productions, even having a timeline for returning to work seems premature. As a second high-level studio exec put it, “To state what may be the obvious, I think the really big crew, lots of extras, multi-country production where you sort of are required to globe-trot is probably last in the queue.”
When larger-scale movie production does start again, Pinewood Atlanta Studios — where “Black Panther,” “Avengers: Endgame” and many other tentpole films have been shot — plans to be ready. Frank Patterson, the CEO of Pinewood Atlanta, has set a restart deadline of June 1, and has spent more than $1 million so far on hospital-grade HVAC upgrades, hand-washing stations and security measures to reduce risk of infection.
For at least one big movie, it could be longer. Netflix’s “Red Notice,” a spy thriller starring Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds, had transitioned to shooting in Atlanta after hopping across a series of international locales when it had to shut down production. But director“We’re starting conversations about procedures to keep people safe on set so that we can get back to work,” he says. “But there’s really nothing circled on the calendar about when we’ll come back.
With their biggest movies on ice for the foreseeable future, studios will likely have to lean even more heavily on visual effects and pared-down production methods to keep their pipelines flowing.,” says one high-level exec. “Is that an actor against a green screen alone and the director is directing nearby but still remotely?”
Because of how nimble independent productions can be, producer Lynette Howell Taylor sees possibilities there. “I immediately went into ‘OK, what can we do with five people and a camera?’” Taylor says. “I feel like independent filmmakers are going to have another resurgence again. I think it’s actually an incredible opportunity.”
Across the pond, however, things are progressing with more dispatch. On May 18, U.K. TV broadcasters published guidelines that cover all manner of television production, with a special emphasis on considering those at higher risk, reducing overall production personnel and minimizing travel.
But smaller crews, he says, will be at the expense of efficiency, flexibility and speed: “Things will be slower.” “At the moment on that particular show, I’m facing what could be a million pounds off the bottom line,” she says.
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