An Earth-Shattering Year: Entertainment Industry Leaders Reflect on 2020
variety.comGeorge Clooney, one of seven industry figures interviewed for this week’s Variety cover story. “When Chadwick Boseman died, I remember that gut-punch feeling that this year was designed to test our mettle.” The underpinnings of the media business were shaken to their core with a pandemic that crippled on-set production and forced movie and live-event theaters and arenas to be shut down, leaving tens of thousands of workers unemployed.While executives who work at studios, production outfits, talent agencies, management companies and entertainment law firms and in other office jobs were for the most part able to pivot quickly and conduct business via home Zoom calls, many crew members were left struggling to qualify for unemployment benefits.
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