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The cast of the movie Contagion–a film about a virus that starts in China and then moves across the world–has released a series of PSA videos urging people to stay home to help stem the spread of the real-world coronavirus, which causes COVID-19.

Five members of the cast–including Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Laurence Fishburne, Marion Cotillard, and Jennifer Ehle–have teamed up with the Columbia Universal Mailman School of Public Health to tell the public critical information about COVID-19 and how to stay safe and recognize misinfornation. Director Steven Soderbergh and writer Scott Z. Burns are also featured in the videos.

Winslet plays an epidemiologist in the movie Contagion, and she said in her PSA that she prepared for her role by speaking to some of the best public health experts in the world. “One of the most important things they told me: Wash your hands like your life depends on it. Because right now, in particular, it might,” she said in her video, which also includes a tutorial for how to best wash your hands.

Damon, meanwhile, talks about the importance of listening to experts, while Fishburne’s video is aimed at measures you can take to help stop the spread of the virus. Cotillard speaks about what might happen if we fail to listen to the advice of experts, while Ehle speaks about the “novel” nature of the virus.

You can check out the videos from Damon and Winslet embedded in this post, while the videos from Fishburne, Cotillard, and Ehle are are available here on YouTube. More information can be found at the Control the Contagion website.

Contagion the movie surged in popularity at the onset of the coronavirus. Burns, the writer of the movie, called out the Trump administration for the handling of the situation in a March 2020 interview.

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For most people, working from home means swapping an office desk and clean clothes for a home desk and the same pajamas five days in a row. For Conan, it means swapping all the comforts of Warner Bros Studios for a stool in his house, a single camera, and technologically questionable webcam interviews.

The late night host had to pause his show early in March due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) update, but quickly vowed to continue to make the show happen using an iPhone and Skype interviews. The at-home show was developed both out of O’Brien’s desire to keep doing his show, and the need to keep the show’s staff paid and in jobs.

Conan is leaning into the lo-fi nature of home broadcast, swapping the slick opening sequence for a montage of webcam stills from all the people working from home to still make the show happen. In contrast to a lot of PSA-heavy programming, Conan also promised that the at-home show would contain no useful information at all, which could be a great move while everyone is in need of mindless distraction.

While the talk show format feels a little bizarre without live audience reactions, Conan still makes it work. The eight minute opening of the first home show has been posted on Conan’s YouTube Channel, while the rest of the episode featuring Adam Sandler will be broadcast on TBS as usual on Monday night. Other home episodes this week will feature Sophie Turner, Jesse Eisenberg, and Sean Hayes.

As the COVID-19 pandemic forces cinemas to close worldwide, Sony has announced that numerous upcoming titles have been delayed to later dates, with most of their upcoming slate now scheduled for 2021. Deadline is reporting new release dates for several upcoming films, including much anticipated titles like Morbius and Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

Morbius, the Jared Leto-starring Spider-Man spin-off about the titular “living vampire,” will now release on March 19, 2021. It was originally scheduled for a July 31, 2020 release. Meanwhile, Ghostbusters: Afterlife has been knocked back to March 5, 2021; it was originally due on July 10.

Other films delayed include Greyhound, starring Tom Hanks, which was scheduled for a June 12 release but does not have a new date set. Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway will now release on January 15, 2021, pushed back from August 7. Even films previously due in 2021 already are getting delayed–Kevin Hart vehicle Fatherhood will now release October 23, 2021, instead of its original date of January 15.

The long-in-development Uncharted film has also been delayed until October 8, 2021, from its original March 5 date. It was previously announced that production had been delayed, so this was expected.

These are just the latest in a long line of cancellations and date shifts caused by COVID-19, as the world moves to reduce the impact of this pandemic. Some movies are still being planned for 2020 releases, though–Wonder Woman 1984 has been delayed, but only until August.

The Uncharted movie starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg has been delayed yet again. This time, however, it’s not due to anything related to the creative direction of the film. Instead, Sony has delayed the movie as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.

The Uncharted movie has shifted from March 5, 2021 to October 8, 2021, a delay of around seven months. The delay is surely due to how production was postponed before it could even begin. Given how the COVID-19 crisis is evolving with new developments every day, it seems the movie’s new date is merely a projection.

Local governments around the world are not allowing people to gather in the same place for non-essential activities, and this impacts filmmaking. Until those restrictions are loosened or lifted, no movie or TV project is able to begin production again.

The Uncharted movie has been in the works for a decade already, shuffling through seven different directors and numerous scriptwriters. The cast is now set, however, with Holland attached to play a young Nathan Drake and Wahlberg as his mentor, Victor “Sully” Sullivan. Oscar nominee Antonio Banderas also has a role in the movie alongside Sophia Ali (Grey’s Anatomy) as the female lead. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina actress Tati Gabrielle has also come aboard in a major role.

The Uncharted film will be directed by Ruben Fleischer, who previously directed the Zombieland movies and Venom for Sony. It’s written by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, who wrote the original Iron Man movie.

The delay for the Uncharted film came during a bigger shuffling of projects at Sony, as the company also delayed Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Morbius Greyhound, Fatherhood, and more.

2019’s Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is getting a sequel. The film, which teamed up Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham’s characters (both formerly antagonists within the main series) for their own adventure, ends with set-up for a sequel that has now been confirmed.

This news comes via a fan Q&A on Johnson’s Instagram, as picked up on by GameSpot sister site Comicbook.com. According to The Rock, no director is attached yet, and it’s unclear when the film will shoot, but the next film is currently being developed. “(We) just gotta figure out the creative right now, and the direction we’re going to go,” the star said.

The release of a Hobbs & Shaw sequel wasn’t certain–the film did well at the box office, but it opened below most other films in the franchise, and was ultimately a big but not enormous hit, making $759 million worldwide.

In GameSpot’s 7/10 review of the first Hobbs & Shaw, Chris E. Hayner praised the movie despite it being extremely dumb. “It’s funny with massive-scale action, the likes of which you rarely see outside of this franchise. It’s loaded with car chases, explosions, and fight scenes in which every character should repeatedly die,” Hayner said. “It’s just unfortunate that the pieces of the film that aren’t soaked in action don’t add up.”

The next proper Fast & Furious title, F9, was due to be released on May 22, 2020, but due to the COVID-19 outbreak it’s been delayed to April 2, 2021. We’ll have to wait a while to figure out what the deal is with Han’s return–and we might need to wait for Hobbs & Shaw 2 to see proper justice served.

Resident Evil: Resistance brings 4v1 asymmetrical multiplayer gameplay to Capcom’s long-running survival horror series. As a side-story during the events of the outbreak in Raccoon City, Resistance includes many callbacks and references to classic Resident Evil while showing off a different side to the larger story. In each game, four players will face off against the might of one, who assumes the role of the architect behind the nightmare gallery filled with monsters and other deadly traps.

As the survivors, four players will need to work together to survive a gauntlet of the Umbrella Corporation’s most dangerous bio-weapons. Each of the six playable characters has their particular set of skills to overcome challenges in different locales around Raccoon City, and learning to communicate with others is key to survival. All the while, the fifth player in the game will assume the role of the test’s Mastermind, manipulating the traps, encounters, and other hazards from behind the scenes.

In this new video, we show off some gameplay from both sides of the conflict. Playing as the survivors, it focuses heavily on the classic formula of survival horror gameplay, where resources are scarce, and the enemies come in full force. Using firearms, melee weapons, and along with fever skills that buff you and your teammates, you’ll need to work with your squad to make through the test and escape. Throughout the trial, the Mastermind will need to use all manner of advanced technology and bio-weapons to spawn in enemies to overwhelm the survivors. But when the time is right, the Mastermind can also call in a Tyrant and assume direct control of it to go in for the attack against the survivors.

Resident Evil: Resistance will release on April 3 with Resident Evil 3 on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

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