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Newsom told a film and TV industry roundtable
on Wednesday that the guidelines would "allow counties that are
in better condition than some of the others, to be able to move
forward and ... allow some movement in your industry."
Movie and television sets shut down in mid-March due to the
coronavirus epidemic. Because of the challenges of social
distancing on sets, Hollywood is expected to be among the last
industries to come back.
Newsom said that Los Angeles County - the home of major movie
studios and television networks - would likely "be a few weeks
behind potentially everybody else" before it can meet
California's criteria on testing, deaths and hospitalizations
that would allow production to restart.
Ted Sarandos, chief content officer for Netflix <NFLX.O>, said
the streaming platform had resumed filming in countries like
South Korea, Iceland and Sweden, where strict testing and
contact tracing was underway.
Netflix was paying crews on all of its shut down shows,
resulting in a "$150 million plus" commitment, Sarandos told the
livestreamed event.
In the United States, filmmaker Tyler Perry is expected to be
the first to get going with plans to shoot two television series
at his vast studio compound in Atlanta, Georgia in July.
The timeline is much longer elsewhere. Actor Jon Huertas, who
plays Miguel Rivas on the NBC series "This Is Us," said on
Wednesday that the show may not resume production until January.
"Selma" director Ava DuVernay, said everyone in the industry was
anxious to get back to work. But she added: "It is hyper
vigilance around this, and a real desire to get it right so that
we don't kind of take two steps back."
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant and Lisa Richwine; editing by
Richard Pullin)
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