How U.K. Film Critics are Navigating Coronavirus: ‘My Earnings Potential Evaporated Overnight’

Over the weekend, Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator, told Americans now is the time to avoid essential errands like going to the grocery store and pharmacy as public health leaders continue to urge tighter restrictions on normal life to flatten the coronavirus curve nationwide.

When the film and TV industry emerges from self-isolation to a forever altered landscape, one silver lining will be the online savvy newly gained by traditionally digitally-shy businesses, some of whom have reacted with lightning speed to devise virtual showcases.

Americana legend John Prine has been hospitalized since Thursday after experiencing a sudden onset of COVID-19 symptoms. A cancer survivor, the singer-songwriter’s team revealed the news Sunday afternoon with a post on social media, explaining that his “situation is critical.” "After a sudden onset of COVID-19 symptoms, John was hospitalized on Thursday (3/26)," the post says.

Americana and folk legend John Prine has been hospitalised in a critical condition after developing symptoms of COVID-19.

John Prine is another star to fall ill amid the coronavirus pandemic following "indeterminate" test results. The singer-songwriter, 73, was taken to the hospital on Thursday after experiencing symptoms of the virus, according to a Twitter statement from his family.

Singer-songwriter John Prine, who received a Grammy lifetime achievement award this year, is in critical condition with symptoms of coronavirus, his family relayed via his Twitter account Sunday.

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Americana legend John Prine has been hospitalized since Thursday (March 26) after experiencing a sudden onset of COVID-19 symptoms.A cancer survivor himself, the singer’s team revealed the news Sunday afternoon (March 29) with a post on social media, explaining that his “situation is critical.”“After a sudden onset of COVID-19 symptons, John was hospitalized on Thursday (3/26),” the post says.

In today’s film news roundup, Canada’s largest LGBTQ film festival gets postponed, the commercial industry’s health plan addresses the coronavirus pandemic and Margaret Qualley’s “A Head Full of Ghosts” finds a home.

Cardi B is sounding off on the developments surrounding the coronavirus, and issued a message for the government, as well as celebrities she believes are “causing confusion” for the general public by announcing that they’ve tested positive for the novel virus, despite exhibiting no symptoms. "[President Trump] is getting on a podium saying, 'Hey, listen: if you do not have any symptoms of the coronavirus -- coughing, fever and whatsoever, etc., etc.

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Former Manchester United player Marouane Fellaini has tested positive for coronavirus, according to a local health department in China.

Tom Hanks was in Australia filming an untitled Elvis Presley biopic directed by Baz Luhrmann when he and his wife Rita Wilson learned they contracted the coronavirus. Now, Luhrmann has announced production for the project has been halted as the pandemic continues to infect thousands across the globe.

The festival is the latest in a series of events to be postponed through coronavirus

The 73rd Cannes Film Festival has been postponed over coronavirus.

The coronavirus has led to the Cannes film festival to call off this year's event as scheduled in May.The world's most prestigious film festival made it official, announcing that its 2020 edition would not take place as planned in late May due to fears of infection connected to the continuing spread of the coronavirus in Europe.The official festival account tweeted, "Due to the health crisis and the development of the French and international situation, the Festival de Cannes will no longer be

Over the last few weeks, it seems that coronavirus is on everyone's minds -- including the stars. Hollywood is a political place, and many of its starry inhabitants aren't known for mincing their words.

By Tom Grater