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Entertainment Budget for Monday, July 20, 2020

Updated at 4 p.m. EDT (2000 UTC).

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^Hollywood’s reopening hits roadblocks as pandemic endures<

^CORONAVIRUS-HOLLYWOOD-STRUGGLES:LA—<Four months since the COVID-19 pandemic halted film and TV shoots, Hollywood has struggled to get back to business. Film sets, known for being crowded and often unclean, have faced a raft of challenges, including complying with testing and other rigorous health-and-safety rules intended to curb new outbreaks, dealing with unwelcoming neighborhoods and extra scrutiny by unions.

So far, most of the filming activity has been confined to small commercials and music videos. But the problems are expected to intensify as 100-plus teams for major movies and TV series resume filming on the streets of LA.

“A lot of people imagined that this was going to be like flipping a light switch and everything was just going to turn back on, and it’s proving not to be quite like that,” said Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA chief operating officer and general counsel. “But we are seeing the pace getting quicker, especially for shorter duration productions like commercials, music videos and other productions that need just a few days.”

1350 (with trims) by Anousha Sakoui. MOVED

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^’Tenet’ release delayed again by Warner Bros. amid COVID-19 spikes<

^MOVIE-TENET:LA—<Warner Bros. again delayed the release of Christopher Nolan’s film “Tenet” on Monday, marking the latest setback for the global movie theater industry, which has been struggling to survive closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The big-budget science fiction film was previously intended for release on Aug. 12, which would’ve made it the first major studio film to hit theaters since cinemas shuttered in mid-March.

The movie was originally set to open July 17, but was pushed back into August as the coronavirus continued to spread.

400 by Ryan Faughnder. MOVED

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^Jennifer Aniston, John Oliver take on mask-wearing and COVID conspiracy theories<

^TV-CORONAVIRUS-ANISTON-OLIVER:LA—<After months of marinating in COVID-19 restrictions, celebrities including Jennifer Aniston and John Oliver are doing what they can to make people believe the truth, not conspiracy theories, about the disease.

Aniston shared a scary photo Sunday of a hospitalized friend whom she said had no underlying health conditions to raise his risk of a bad outcome from the virus. In the photo, the man is on a ventilator, eyes closed, with lots of wires and tubes attached to him or hanging nearby.

“This is our friend Kevin. Perfectly healthy, not one underlying health issue. This is Covid. This is real,” Aniston wrote. “We can’t be so naive to think we can outrun this if we want this to end, and we do, right? The one step we can take is PLEASE #wearadamnmask.”

400 by Christie D’Zurilla. MOVED

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^Susan Orlean takes us behind her drunken Twitter whirlwind — and the wild responses<

^BOOK-ORLEAN-DRUNK-TWEETS:LA—<Quarantine cocktail hour(s) rule No. 1: Don’t put the stool softener next to the Tylenol.

But let’s back up.

Susan Orlean went on a bit of a bender Friday night. The author and New Yorker staff writer, who doesn’t typically drink heavily, was fed up — with COVID-19, the grim economy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg being back in the hospital and the lack of suitable candy on hand. Among other things. Wine seemed an appropriate response. Lots of it.

Fueled by several glasses of a light, summery ros , Orlean turned to her iPhone and, lured by the flickering backlight of an empty Twitter field, she went on an inebriated, comical rant, waking Saturday morning to find — along with a raging headache — that she may have won quarantine-era Twitter.

1450 by Deborah Vankin. MOVED

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^ART, VIDEO GAMES<

^From the Black Death to the coronavirus, pandemics can also yield powerful art<

^PANDEMICS-ART:MS—<COVID-19 isn’t the first pandemic to inspire art. Just as artists today are weighing the effects of isolation and the response of our leaders, Rembrandt ruminated on the plague in the 17th century, questioning in one artwork if a rat poison vendor was helping or hindering the spread of disease. German Expressionist artist Christian Rohlfs contemplated how the double whammy of influenza and World War I decimated Europe.

1100 by Alicia Eler. MOVED

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^This heartbreaking video game about the joys of life deeply resonates in 2020<

^VID-BEFORE-FORGET:LA—<“Before I Forget” is the reminder I didn’t know I needed.

Be forewarned: This is a game with moments of sadness. “Before I Forget” left me in tears in the middle of a weekend afternoon. At times, its 60-minute interactive text can even be frightening — though emotionally scary, not in the horror sense.

1200 by Todd Martens. MOVED

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^MOVIES<

^Review: Netflix documentary ‘Father Soldier Son’ questions human cost of military service<

^FATHER-SOLDIER-SON-MOVIE-REVIEW:LA—<There’s a scene in the devastating new Netflix documentary “Father Soldier Son” where the Eisch family goes to the local Regal cinema in upstate New York to see “American Sniper,” Clint Eastwood’s 2014 action-drama about Navy SEAL sharpshooter Chris Kyle. Beyond its nonfiction status, “Father” is a very different type of war movie, viewing military service on a more human scale and questioning the ultimate costs.

500 by Kevin Crust. MOVED

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^Thomas Kail explains those unique credits for the ‘Hamilton’ movie<

^MOVIE-HAMILTON-CREDITS:LA—<After Eliza’s final gasp, a fade to black and a lauded curtain call, the cast of “Hamilton” leaves the stage. Then come the closing credits of the film version now streaming on Disney+, which highlight each actor with individual cards.

“Part of the experience of the theater is thumbing through that Playbill at intermission and looking for that person you admire, finding their headshot and learning more about them by reading their bio,” said Thomas Kail, who directed the stage show and the movie. “This felt like the most appropriate way to celebrate this onstage company: creating a visual Playbill, using a cinematic language.”

550 by Ashley Lee. MOVED

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^Ridley Scott wants your help making a movie — for real!<

^MOVIE-SCOTT:SJ—<Think you’re living an extraordinary life, or just a simple one? Either way, if you film your life for one day — July 25 — and submit it to famed English filmmaker Ridley Scott, you could become part of a feature film.

Scott has put out a call for videos from that single day. He will then choose some to weave together into a feature film he’s producing and that is being directed by Kevin Macdonald. The film will premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.

250 by Joan Morris. MOVED

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^’Alienist: Angel of Darkness’ review: Gilded Age depravity, in an America hostile to ‘foreign undesirables'<

^TV-ALIENIST-REVIEW:TB—<We accommodate all sorts of sadism and bloodshed in period crime stories, as long as we get the right sort of eyeful along with it — “atmosphere,” as it’s generally described. Seductive production design, bamboozling digital recreations of vanished eras of American life, the clip-clop of horse-drawn carriages are play their part in the soothing illusion of the past. The depravity may be pervasive but the clothes look swell.

Case in point: “The Alienist: Angel of Darkness,” which premiered on TNT Sunday. This is the second and, based on the first four (out of eight) episodes I’ve seen, the more interesting season of TNT’s adaptation of Caleb Carr’s mystery novels.

850 by Michael Phillips. MOVED

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^Disney Plus review: Merlin molds a king in ‘The Sword and the Stone'<

^VID-SWORD-STONE:OS—<“The Sword and the Stone” is another of Disney’s historical retellings that has some magic and a talking owl tossed in for good measure. This one is set in very old England — think centuries and centuries ago — but you might get a 1960s vibe out of it. Not that that’s bad.

750 by Dewayne Bevil. MOVED

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^TV-TINSEL:MCT—<Sophie Rundle explores her path to ‘The Nest’

1600 by Luaine Lee. MOVED

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^MUSIC<

^Late rapper Juice Wrld’s posthumous album posts best sales week of 2020<

^MUS-JUICE-WRLD:LA—<Just a week after Pop Smoke’s posthumous debut topped charts, Juice Wrld’s own after-death album “Legends Never Die” will take its place at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart.

The late rapper’s album, released on Grade A/Interscope, is the year’s biggest debut so far, earning 497,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending July 16, according to Nielsen Music. The Weeknd’s “After Hours” had sold 444,000 units in April. “Legends Never Die”‘s chart bow is the most successful opening sales week since Taylor Swift’s 2019 LP “Lover,” and the third biggest posthumous sales debut in over 20 years, after Notorious B.I.G.’s “Life After Death” and 2Pac’s “R U Still Down,” both from 1997.

350 by August Brown. MOVED

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^Replacements will reintroduce ‘Pleased to Meet Me’ with box set in October<

^MUS-REPLACEMENTS:MS—<The third time might still pack a lot of charm for the Replacements’ 1987 album “Pleased to Meet Me,” which will get an even grander deluxe reissue from Rhino/Warner Bros. Records in October than the one churned out in 2008.

Announced last week via Rolling Stone, the new 3-CD, 1-LP version of the beloved record features a remastered version of the original album along with dozens of outtakes — including 29 tracks never before released.

350 by Chris Riemenschneider. MOVED

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^Blue Note issues never-before-released album by Pittsburgh legend Art Blakey<

^MUS-BLAKEY:PG—<Jazz lovers woke up to something special Friday morning: a new Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers album.

“Just Coolin’,” a never-before-released album by the legendary Pittsburgh-born drummer and his band, is out now on Blue Note Records. It’s $20.99 for vinyl, $9.99 digital at store.bluenote.com.

Recorded on March 8, 1959, in the Hackensack, New Jersey, living room studio of recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder, it was the band’s first session since October 1958, when it cut the classic “Moanin'” featuring saxophonist Benny Golson.

450 by Scott Mervis. MOVED

^The Chicks singer Natalie Maines blasts President Trump’s handling of coronavirus: It’s murder<

^MUS-CHICKS-MAINES:NY—<The Chicks singer Natalie Maines accused President Donald Trump of “murder” because of his alleged negligence in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

“There’s no leadership,” she said on Monday’s installment of “The Howard Stern Show.”

Maines, who got into hot water for trashing President George W. Bush in 2003, tried to then get off topic, but Stern asked the 45-year-old singer to finish her thought.

350 by Brian Niemietz. MOVED

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^MUS-ALBUMS:PH—<Album reviews: Pop Smoke, My Morning Jacket, Willie Nelson

800 by Dan DeLuca. MOVED

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