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By Dino-Ray Ramos
Associate Editor/Reporter
Editors’ Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that has already claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders, Deadline’s Coping With COVID-19 Crisis series is a forum for those in the entertainment space grappling with myriad consequences of seeing a great industry screech to a halt. The hope is for an exchange of ideas and experiences, and suggestions on how businesses
Photo: National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum.
By Rebecca Davis
John Cho wrote a powerful essay about discrimination against Asian Americans amid the Coronavirus crisis. The 47-year-old Star Trek actor highlights the verbal and physical abuse being directed at Asian Americans during the pandemic.
John Cho is worried about his parents’ safety amid the coronavirus pandemic — and he’s not talking about catching the virus.
John Cho has opened up on the “verbal and physical abuse” being directed at Asian Americans during the coronavirus crisis.
John Cho is getting candid about Asian American discrimination during the coronavirus pandemic.
John Cho is getting candid about Asian American discrimination during the coronavirus pandemic.
Yesterday, Lady Gaga and Global Citizen put on a livestreamed concert special featuring performances from a number of queer artists.
By Dino-Ray Ramos
Amid the social, emotional, mental and economic effects that have impacted hundreds of millions of people around the world caused by the coronavirus, Asian people are also dealing with an evergreen threat to minorities in times of crisis: xenophobia.
Amazon Prime Video announced that it will host a handful of titles that were set to screen at this year’s SXSW film festival. The SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection will be open to all users with an Amazon login in the United States, not just those with a Prime subscription, for ten days. A launch date for the online festival has yet to be announced. See more details about the program here.
The American Film Institute is hoping to help entertain audiences in this new period of social distancing.
By Pete Hammond
The coronavirus pandemic is putting something else in Hollywood on hold. Just less than a month before they were scheduled to kick off their Map of the Soul tour in Calif., BTS has announced the North American leg of their tour has been postponed. "Hello.