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These arent the fictional figures that open Songbird, but the actual real-life toll of the COVID-19 pandemic as of December 10. Its a number that will only rise in the coming weeks and months, despite the fact the first COVID-19 vaccine is being used in the UK. Songbird actually opens with a fictional figure of 110 million deaths globally as the world enters its fourth year of lockdown, with the COVID-23 virus mutated to be even deadlier with a mortality rate of more than 50%. The movie had a...

Print On March 14, filmmaker Adam Mason, like virtually everyone else in Hollywood and across the planet Earth, was freaking out. With the worsening coronavirus crisis triggering lockdowns and blaring headlines around the country, a passion project Mason was set to direct for Blumhouse Pictures had shut down just five days into pre-production. He was worried about his wife and three young children, with whom he shares a two-bedroom duplex in L.A., and about his aging parents living 5,000 mile...

Warning: If you are experiencing nausea, headache, fatigue or vomiting, you might have just watched Songbird

12/11/2020 K.J. Apa, Sofia Carson, Demi Moore and Bradley Whitford appear in this Michael Bay-produced thriller about several people trying to survive during a deadly pandemic. The country is currently in the grip of a deadly pandemic. The death rate is higher than ever, with fatalities racing toward the 300,000 mark. Millions of people are in desperate financial straits, the government response has been chaotic and people are violently rebelling against the very health measures designed to kee...

Review: "Songbird" uses the COVID-19 pandemic to make both it, and the year as a whole, seem somehow worse.

Sofia Carson in Songbird Dir: Adam Mason; Starring: KJ Apa, Sofia Carson, Demi Moore, Bradley Whitford, Peter Stormare, Alexandra Daddario, Craig Robinson, Paul Walter Hauser. 15 cert, 92 mins. Some truly extraordinary films have been made this year during lockdown by such esteemed auteurs as Pedro Almodóvar, Jonathan Glazer, Paolo Sorrentino and Michael Bay. Wait, Michael Bay? Yes, Michael Bay: director of Armageddon, The Rock and five Transformers films; Capra of carnage; Bergman of bombast;...

Whats It Like to Make a Movie During the Pandemic? The people behind a blockbuster thriller, a viral horror hit, and a timely conversation starter – all shot and set during lockdown – let us know how they did it. (Photo by © STX Films) Moviemaking is incredibly… complicated. A million things can – and often do – go wrong, myriad questions and unforeseen problems pop up, and all the while issues like budgeting and scheduling consistently hover around, like annoying flies you just ca...

It was spawned from an idea in March that got the green light in May before a shoot in July and now a digital release in December, a spectacular turnaround helped tremendously, no doubt, by the blockbuster producer and deft string-puller Michael Bay. The British director and co-writer Adam Mason, whose previous credits have been small-scale genre movies, has crafted a rather ingeniously constructed film that tries to tell a big story with little resource, using a locked-down LA as a backdrop. I...