Batman Stopped by New Enemy: COVID-19 | No Film School

Production was halted for almost six months thanks to the coronavirus and now, just three days after it restarted, it is halted again on the set of Matt Reeves' The Batman, which stars Robert Pattinson as the Dark Knight himself. Said Warner Bros. this morning about the situation: “A member of The Batman production has tested positive for COVID-19, and is isolating in accordance with established protocols. Filming is temporarily paused.”

UPDATE:

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According to reports, Batman himself, Robert Pattinson is the one who tested positive. We will keep our eyes and ears open for any other information.

Unfortunately, this seems like Hollywood life right now. We're combatting this with rapid testing and precautions, but there really is no way to make a movie or TV show without expecting delays and paying an incredible amount for insurances.

This will drive the budgets up and makes me worried that smaller films and even mid-range reliable genres like horror will price themselves out of production.

While we do not have any confirmed cases halting large studio movies, we do know rapid-response tests, quarantines, and something akin to the NBA bubble works best when dealing with this worldwide dilemma.

The best-case scenario will be a vaccine that every crew member gets or some kind of booster shot that they get before every production.

The Batman is currently scheduled to open in theaters on October 1, 2021.

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What's the Hype With 'Interstellar' Revisiting Cinemas After a Decade in 70mm IMAX?

Here's Why You Need to Revisit 'Interstellar' in 70mm IMAX

Celebrate the love and hope at the center of Nolan's space epic in the format it was meant to be seen.

If we know anything about Christopher Nolan, he likes to go big. Nolan started with smaller-scale stories (as many of us do) with early noir adjacent works like Following, Memento, and Insomnia, then started going and staying big with his illusionist drama The Prestige. Since then, the scale has been various degrees of massive, with the biggest scope in his time-and-space sprawling epic, Interstellar.

While Interstellarmight not be everyone's favorite Nolan outing, there's no denying it's an impressive feat of filmmaking and his most emotional—if watching Matthew McConaughey's Cooper desperately try to reach his family through quantum space-time doesn't make you cry at least a little bit, what's going on, dude?

With Interstellar'sIMAX release, it's a great time to shed some tears in a public setting in one of the most prestigious film formats around. As we mentioned in our film gauge piece, Nolan loves shooting on film and utilizes 65mm intentionally to provoke a tone of massive scale. In that regard, Interstellar was made for 70mm IMAX. That goes without saying, dawg. That being said, other factors make Interstellar a perfect movie to revisit in theaters while you can.

Let's break down the release further below.

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