We ve Got Hollywood Covered
A Journal of the Weirdest Awards Season Ever, From Streams to Vaccines and Everything in Between
TheWrap magazine: The COVID-19 pandemic and the recognition of systemic racism transformed this awards season into a marathon like no other By Steve Pond | April 14, 2021 @ 10:32 AM Last Updated: April 14, 2021 @ 12:54 PM
Illustrated by Chris Morris
A version of this story first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
The Oscars have been delayed and disrupted before, but there has never been an awards season like the one that will end on April 25 at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. Starting soon after last year’s Oscars on Feb. 9, 2020, the world changed, first with a global pandemic and then with a long-delayed reckoning with institutional racism.
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The Closure of Arclight Cinemas Has L.A. Movie Lovers in Mourning - and Asking, Can It Be Saved?
It s difficult to overstate how central the Arclight had become to L.A. film culture.
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April 12, 2021
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The news that the Arclight Cinemasare closing permanently part of the larger closure that includes Pacific Theaters in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic hit the film industry, and the greater Los Angeles community, like a shockwave.
Filmmaker John August was one of the first to tweet about the news: “Oh no. ArcLight Hollywood is my favorite place to see movies.”
In a statement, it was announced today that Arclight Cinemas and Pacific Theaters will permanently close all their locations as a consequence of the pandemic-induced business downturn.