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Denice takes part in historic online Plygain event Plygain services where people come together to celebrate the festive season with traditional carols across Wales had to be different this year because of the pandemic. Instead of gathering, singers and groups were encouraged to submit a recording of their own performance and these were put together into two films, and shared as virtual Plygain across social media on December 20 and January 3. One of those taking part was Denice Jaunzens...

Now playing: A very covid Christmas Steven Zeitchik, The Washington Post Dec. 18, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail A scene from Adam Masons film "Songbird." The movie is one of several pieces of entertainment that tackle the coronavirus this month, raising interest and questions.STXfilms This time of year tends to bring a reliable set of entertainment staples: Hallmark romances, cozy celebrity musical specials, theaters asplash with stories of cute kids and their dogs. But 2020 is topsy turvy. And it...

Read the room, Mr Bay. We missed you too. Sign up to our newsletter, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter, so you always know where to find us. Golly gee, if only someone could have warned Michael Bay that making a film in which COVID safety measures become state-sanctioned violence and the sick are weak horrific burdens was, perhaps, a bad idea. Songbird was the first major blockbuster produced under COVID-19 measures, and perhaps it’s best if that is its only legacy. Produced by Michael...

It’s Los Angeles in 2024, and SARS-CoV-2 has mutated several times. People are suffering through the 213 th week of lockdown, the mortality rate of COVID-23 has risen to 56 percent, yearly deaths have topped 8 million, and the virus now attacks brain tissue. Only people who are immune and wear government-provided yellow bracelets can leave their homes. Everyone else gets their goods delivered by immune couriers, through airlock-type delivery doors that sanitize everything with UV light. Adver...

Songbird Review: When the announcement first came that Michael Bay would produce a pandemic thriller while we are in the midst of one and that it would be filmed entirely during this time, I tried to keep an open mind. On one hand, even if he’s not writing or directing it, Bay could easily glorify or exploit this issue, on the other, this is on opportune moment for something of value to offer some emotionally-charged thrills for a timely subject, as we’ve seen of late with films and shows e...

Print The science-fiction thriller “Songbird” has already earned some notoriety: first for being one of the earliest film productions to be shot in Los Angeles during the pandemic; and then for a trailer that made the movie look like an overblown, irresponsible piece of anti-lockdown propaganda. The good news is that “Songbird” is nowhere near as incendiary as it initially seemed. It’s actually a fairly thoughtful dystopian melodrama, and cleverly staged — if ultimately a bit under-...

Copy to clipboard Earlier this year, on the first day of the COVID-19 lockdown, writers Adam Mason and Simon Boyes spent the day crafting a 12-page outline. The eventual picture that would be born out of the 2020 pandemic would become the action-thriller Songbird, which chronicles the lives of people just trying to survive the film’s near future scenario. But it wasn’t always supposed to be that way, at least according to co-writer/director Adam Mason. In fact, the struggles of this ...

Based on the real-life current pandemic and produced by Michael Bay, 'Songbird' director Adam Mason tells us how he shot a movie in lockdown

With all the nuance of a troll screaming "First!" on a message board, Adam Masons "Songbird" is a film that arguably shouldnt exist. As legitimate concerns rise about people refusing to take the vaccine that could save us from the nightmare that is 2020, Mason and producer Michael Bay take the national anxiety about COVID-19 and warp it into (allegedly) escapist filmmaking. I’m not big on the “too soon” argument of criticism, but there’s something undeniably off about a movie that uses ...

Share this article Share this article LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Invisible Narratives, Catchlight Studios, and Michael Bays Platinum Dunes, the filmmakers behind newly released feature film Songbird, announced today that they will direct a portion of the proceeds from the film toward a donation to World Central Kitchen (WCK) to support COVID-19 food relief efforts. The first feature film made in Los Angeles during the COVID-19 pandemic, Songbird will be released today across...