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The Backlogs Are Not Just at the Ports
B Y D AV I D M O R O N G , E D I T O R
A familiar and predictable refrain
can be found in most of the
stories told by designers and their
collaborators in current issues...
"and then came March 2020."
The delays in both production
and releases were brought home
by some drawings shown in an
upcoming issue that were dated
2018. There has always been what
sometimes seems like an endless
wait between wrap and release,
but I am working with designers
who are four of five projects past
the topic of the article, and while their enthusiusm
for the work hasn't waned, we all wish we had had the
chance to share it a year, or more, ago.
Chris Lee posted an interesting
article on Vulture.com on "The
Huge Hidden Cost of Holding a
Blockbuster," that looks at the
producers' and distributors' side
of this dilemma. It foretells of a
cascade of backlogged product
hitting screens large and small
between now and summer, and
shows that while producers
are still making money, there
can be no real blockbusters in a
pandemic.
o here's to a new year of revised COVID protocols,
audiences willing to leave home and sit in a theater,
and plenty of films to choose from.