How ‘Scream’ Is Dealing With Positive COVID-19 Tests Of Three Crew Members

SCREAM 2 Miramax/Everett Collection EXCLUSIVE: Three crew members on the Wilmington, NC production of Spyglass Media Group/ Paramount ’s Scream relaunch have tested positive, but filming will solider on, with the Radio Silence-directed movie set to resume as scheduled on Monday. Yesterday’s day of filming wrapped on time, I hear, for a weekend break. It’s important to note that until there’s a vaccine, this is par for the course for any film or TV production; there will be COVID-19 cases, and safety protocols are in effect so that work can continue. What is enabling production to continue is the fact that the crew members weren’t in the primary pod which includes the actors, the director, assistant directors and DP. If that was the case, production would need to be paused, i.e. what occurred with Warner Bros.’ The Batman recently for a bit after Robert Pattinson came down with coronavirus . Filming on that UK production has already resumed. During the pandemic, productions are implementing a pod/zone approach by which the crew is separated into multiple groups, the primary one being the actors, director, DP, etc. with little interaction or none in between groups. This is to keep everyone safe […]

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