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Bart & Fleming: How Pandemic Compares To Other Crises That Shook Hollywood; How Exhibs & Studios Can Use This Moment To Restore Moviegoing Mojo

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By Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety.

In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. FLEMING: I’m trying to recall a time while I have covered Hollywood where anything caused the level of disruption we are witnessing in this COVID-19 pandemic.

In my experience, the tragedy of 9/11 came closest, followed by the L.A. riots, the strike of 2007, the global economic collapse of 2008, and the Sony Hack.

On all of those, you knew the business would mostly rebound, but the pandemic has shut every aspect of these industries. We don’t really know anything, in terms of when things might come back.

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