Canada and Australia will not be sending their athletes to Tokyo Japan for the 2020 Summer Olympics. This announcement comes after rising pressure to move the 2020 Olympics to 2021. On Sunday, the IOC (International Olympic Committee) announced that it was considering a postponement. IOC president Thomas Bach sent a letter to athletes explaining the decision:
“I know that this unprecedented situation leaves many of your questions open,” he wrote. “I also know that this rational approach may not be in line with the emotions many of you have to go through.”
RELEASE: The Canadian Olympic Committee and Canadian Paralympic Committee have made the difficult decision to not send Canadian teams to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the summer of 2020: https://t.co/HyOBA5wwp4pic.twitter.com/x9OWABVxMA
In a joint statement, the Canadian and Australian Paralympic Committee said, “While we recognize the inherent complexities around a postponement, nothing is more important than the health and safety of our athletes and the world community,” they continued “This is not solely about athlete health — it is about public health With COVID-19 and the associated risks, it is not safe for our athletes, and the health and safety of their families and the broader Canadian community for athletes to continue training towards these Games. In fact, it runs counter to the public health advice which we urge all Canadians to follow.”
During the weekend Japan Olympic Committee member Kaori Yamaguchi said the Games should be postponed because some athletes had been unable to train. The heads of USA Swimming and USA Track and Field both also called for the Olympics to be postponed to 2021 over the weekend.
Announced back in 2016, the 2020 Olympics were set to be held in Japan. However, after the current pandemic outbreak of the Coronavirus, many countries such as Italy, and Peru have announced a total border closedown to prevent further infection. The spread of the virus also resulted in many sports federations to shut down their season, with the NBA and NFL halting all games. As for other sports, the largest event of the WWE calendar Wrestlemania is set to be pre-tape and aired online. The last biggest event that would amass a large gathering is the 2020 Olympics, but with mounting pressure and many countries practicing social distancing, it is looking unlikely that we will see the Olympics this year.
Mission Impossible stopped filming back in February, and it was one of the first movies to cancel productions over the coronavirus. Only a month later, more movies would delay filming such as The Matrix 4, AMC would close down all theater, and release dates for movies such as F9 would be delayed.
The Daily Mail posted pictures of Tom Cruise filming motorcycle stunts along with other scenes. Mission Impossible 7 is being filmed in the U.K, whose borders were closed after the Coronavirus outbreak.
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With the number of delays and shutdowns in Hollywood, it is refreshing to see a high profile movie film restart productions. While it is not clear how long the shooting will last, the only thing we can hope for is everybody to be safe.
Self Isolation is hard, but it is necessary. The hardest part, however, is what to do to keep yourself entertained. Some read books, others play video games, but if you’re Seth Rogen than you get high and watch Cats. That’s right, the famous comedy actor decided to pass the time by getting high and taking to Twitter.
Judi Dench is in a cat fur coat which I can only assume is socially APPALLING in this world.
Seth Rogen started to tweet about his whole experience watching Cats. Cats came out in 2019, and it is notorious for being one of the worst movies ever made. The movie featured A-list celebrities such as Taylor Swift and Idris Alba with CGI cat bodies. The movie is hard to watch, and I can’t even imagine watching it stoned, but Seth Rogen found a way.
The Marvel Netflix shows are always a sore spot for fans of the shows. On the one hand, the shows hit the ground running, with Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage being amongst some of the best streaming shows on Netflix at the time. On the other hand, as the shows continued, they were plagued by terribly received second seasons. Also, the disappointing first season of Iron Fist, and The Defenders place the quality of the shows into question. Despite Marvel Netflix’s recovery with the amazing Daredevil season 3, and Punisher, what no one saw coming was Disney’s move into streaming. With the arrival of Disney+ all the Netflix Marvel shows started to get canceled, for a brief moment, you could not turn on the news without seeing an announcement that one of the shows got canceled.
While none of the shows were ever considered canon, fans always hoped that one quick rewrite and we would be able to see Jessica Jones argue with Iron Man. Making the Netflix shows canon never seemed to be in the cards, which is a shame because with shows such as Wanda Vision, and Falcom and Winters Soldier premiering in Disney+, new fans might not be able to the see some of the best performances in all of Marvel.
On his podcast Kevin Smith’s Fatman Beyond, Smith addressed the rumor of a Matt Murdock showing up in the next Spider-Man movie, hinting that Cox’s name has been floated around as a possibility. “I heard another piece of good fuckin’ news,” he said. “Did You hear that Spider-Man, the new Spider-Man movie, gonna have a lawyer in it? Charlie Cox, they’re bringing in as Matt Murdock. That’s been the rumor online and they say that’s like the one that like Marvel’s like god damn it how did that get out?”
Credit: Photo by imageSPACE/Shutterstock Kevin Smith iHeartRadio Music Festival, Arrivals, Day 2, Las Vegas, USA – 21 Sep 2019
Kevin Smith had access to insider information before, but as always, take any rumor with a grain of salt. As for why introduce Matt Murdock in Spiderman, in the comics Daredevil is famous for being Peter Parker’s lawyer, he was even introduced in the Spiderman (1994) cartoon as Peter’s lawyer. This connection is perfect, especially as Spiderman: Far From Home Ended with Peter’s identity coming out to the public via cameo of J. Jonah Jamerson.
What do you guys think? Is this the best way to reintroduce Daredevil into the MCU, or should the characters get another shot in Disney+?
AMC has announced that the company is closing its theater chain across the U.S. due to coronavirus concerns, creating a new market. Last week Disney announced that it is pushing the Disney+ release of Frozen II; the movie is now available to stream in Disney+. With the Coronavirus affecting gatherings of over 50, and as reported before affecting Box office results. Other studies started tackling the in-home streaming market by making a few of this year’s biggest hitters available for streaming earlier than expected.
Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), and The Gentleman have both moved their home video release dates to next Tuesday. This is a surprising move because Bird of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) theatrical run is still going with the movie raking up $2.1 million last weekend. Traditionally, a movie would spend around three months in theaters, before another few months would pass, and lining it up with another studio release the movie would start going on DVD to hype up the old movie, and the new release. Streaming changed the formula, as a movie that did not succeed in theaters would quickly be pushed to streaming in the hopes that it makes its money back.
Warner Bros.’s decision to move all the home release dates comes as a response to Universal’s decision to make The Hunt, The Invisible Man, and Emma available on streaming this coming weekend. However, the biggest game-changer comes from Universal’s announcement to release Troll 2: World Tour online while the movie hits theaters at the same time.
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As the coronavirus spreads and communities are closing, this is a safe way to keep the audience safe while bringing in revenue for newer releases. This move could also solve the constant delays of movies such as Mulan, F9, and James Bond: No Time to Die, “NBCUniversal will continue to evaluate the environment as conditions evolve and will determine the best distribution strategy in each market when the current unique situation changes,” Jeff Shell, CEO of NBCUniversal, said in a statement Monday.
While the reasoning behind these moves might be tragic because of the Coronavirus, this is a massive game-changer. For the first time, audiences now have complete control of how they want to view the latest movies. It will be interesting to see how this will affect the summer movie box office and movies going forward.
Harry Styles and his touring band stopped by NPR for an intimate Tiny Desk Concert featuring songs from his album Fine Line. The former One Direction member stripped things down in his peaceful and melodious four-song-set, that highlights his intimate songwriting abilities.
Styles, who is wearing a powder blue sweater with a chicken on it, and his band kicked the set off with an acoustic version of his song “Cherry.” Before jumping into his song “Watermelon Sugar,” he gives us some background and explains that the song was written during the tour for his debut album in 2017, during his day off in Nashville.
“It’s probably the longest it’s ever taken me to finish a song,” he went on to explain. “We kind of liked it when we first had it and then I really hated it for a long time and it kind of came back and it seemed to kind of kept coming back into the mix.” The songs title came from the Richard Brautigan book of the same title.
Styles goes on to describe the song as describing the “initial euphoria” that comes along with new love. The feeling and excitement can be felt from the unplugged version’s funky arrangement of a triple-acoustic guitar and angelic backing vocals coming from the band’s drummer, keyboard player, and rhythm guitarist.
Before playing “To Be So Lonely,” Styles introduced his guitarist and collaborator Mitchell Rowland whiling describing how the song was made, including the sad bit about everyone singing along the loudest during the line about him being an “arrogant b—–d.” The song has become a hit on the TikTok app.
The set ends with the song “Adore you,” which Styles says is about a fish. The song is actually similar to his previous songs about those first initial feelings that come with a new relationship.
Styles will begun his tour for “Fine Line” on June 26 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Styles is scheduled to perform three back-to-back shows at Madison Square Garden in New York, from July 6th through the 8th.
