H a fi itafi fi ituie if t a ii if ui i le 33 our heroes. I think the dress up aspects emphasises to get out of the pyjamas feel fast, but the suits are not something a bit smarter, whatever it is, just have fun. What will you be wearing then . Im not going to give away anything that i am for fancy dress. I dont know what im wearing because it is not planned for way. None of the family know what theyre going to be wearing, ido, but know what theyre going to be wearing, i do, but im not giving it away until video tomorrow, but trust me, you want to see what they are wearing. We have got our tutorials on social media so you can see all of them on instagram and today weve put another video where were dancing all in random places around the house to really make it more fun and just for us it is light hearted but we want to use our time wisely, we are stuck here at home, we are obviously self isolating, it is about using our time to help others because so many people are doing so
many things right now to help everybody. And the thing is, we need to come away as a nation, so doing the clapping at night, the whole nation is doing and supporting each other, so whether it is everybody can be something together and to raise money for the nhs, they have helped me in my knee operation and they have help my dad, they are very close to us and they are very good in everything they do and they need more money with the crisis that we are in. I promise you are not making this up with the microphone is never ajay so ajay, i have got a really good idea, why dont i talk to you while in the background, curtis, you can while in the background, curtis, you ca n start while in the background, curtis, you can start giving us a small example of the kind of dance moves you are advocating. So go ahead, i know you have a warm up, we will take that into account. While you are doing that, ajay, why did you get the, 0k, i cant see myself doing that but never mind. Justice and bum wiggle
is for us. Is that your mum is well . She is not meant to be here that she hasjoined us, it is about she is not meant to be here that she has joined us, it is about having fun, releasing good endorphins and raising money for the nhs. It is ha rd raising money for the nhs. It is hard right now, we see the same four walls, this is having fun as a family. Where did the idea from . It was close to curtis had to work with the nhs, once we heard everybody clapping for the nhs, we are professional dancers, we will use our time wisely to do it, a dance video had to be done. They dress up idea was mine to get out of my clothes, i need to put up some smart clothes on, i dont know what he will dress me in on sunday, i dont know what he is doing now, it looks like yoga, but it is easy enough for everybody. Brilliant, you
have both been really good sports, good like tomorrow and thanks to the Pritchett Family for putting a smile on ourfaces. Now its time for a look at the weather with helen willetts. Good afternoon. The dry weather should continue for the rest of the day after the morning mist and fog. Weather fronts are bringing weatherfronts are bringing rain weather fronts are bringing rain to shetland in particular. But because the winds are from the south, temperatures are higher than yesterday and with the wind strengthening through the night and pushing the remainder of their showers out of their way, it should not be as cold because of the strength of that wind. It should be largely frost free and therefore they should be lots of sunshine on sunday morning and not the problem with mist and fog because the wind is a bit stronger. Side of england and wales. And also Northern Ireland, through the afternoon. Even the arrival of spots of rain before dark. And you can see why. We have got a weather front coming in and send Gale Force Winds in the north and west. But because it is a southerly wind, we are pulling in much warmer air so temperatures will be warmer than today once again. Now on bbc news, in a special pandemic edition of talking movies the programme looks at how the coronavirus has devastated the movie industry in many parts of the world. Hello, and welcome to this special edition of talking movies, coming to you from my home on new yorks upper west side. In the midst of this coronavirus pandemic, weve been working together remotely and collectively as a Programming Team to look at the impact of the virus on the global film
industry. Of course, the struggles of the movie business pales in comparison to whats been happening in terms of the human cost of this disease, but in some parts of the world, the Film Industry has been totally crippled by the pandemic. China was the first major country to be hit by the virus, and its nationalFilm Industry has been severely hurt. Production has been closed down, as have cinemas. With the impact of coronavirus waning in china, cinemas almost opened last weekend, but the government ordered them to remain closed at the last minute. When they do reopen, going to the movies isnt exactly going to feel festive. Director and cinematographer yanqiu fei lives in shanghai. On the news we learned that when the cinema reopens, they are going to follow a strict rule of disinfection for the whole cinema, and every audience will be requested to show their health care code,
also kept their temperature checked. And the cinema will remain social distancing within the audience, meaning everyone will have an empty seat in between. 0h, also you have to wear a mask all the time. For india, the Worlds Largest producer of movies, the lockdown has taken the life out of bollywood and the big regionalfilm industries. Indians love their movies, so the closing of cinemas has been very hard. Its left us catatonic. We have no idea what to do, because cinema is like, you know, a drug in our veins, that we need our weekly fix, and we are completely lost without it. I dont think weve ever seen such a big devastation, actually, because its a nationwide lockdown now for a few weeks, till april i, actually, three weeks, so its a big shock and i think. I mean, weve survived all kinds of other disasters, natural disasters, floods, famine, all kinds of stuff. Riots, communal riots. But this, weve never seen something as comprehensive as this,
because the whole nation is under lockdown. Hollywood, of course, has been upended by the virus. Bond. James bond. The newjames bond movie was the first major picture to be postponed. Others have followed suit. The disaster has shut down production at virtually every american movie company. Its completely stopped. Initially, whenever, you know, the virus first started coming to the united states, it was that projections are being suspended for a couple months or a couple weeks, everything has stopped indefinitely. Im thinking of, you know, bigger movies like fantastic beasts, the matrix 4 movie, every disney, marvel show, every netflix show, every hbo show, the friends reunion, for example is postponed indefinitely until this is under control. I dont want to stay here. Im sorry, i would never. Hey, hey. See . Right now my priority is giving my baby somewhere safe, do you understand . Some studio movies placed in cinemas were subsequently made available by the screening giants. This is a very significant move, with ramifications for the entire industry. Typically are 90 days between when a movie finishes its run and theatres and is available on screen on demand, and for a long time some studios and some streaming sites like netflix or hulu have been trying to chip away at that 90 days, because it is a big loss for them, financially. And so i think now. Now that we are seeing new releases come on streaming, on demand, so much quicker, that might be a really lasting change. Normally at this time of the year, the movie industry would be looking forward to the cannes Film Festival, which is held in may. But cannes has been postponed, as have dozens of other film related events. But festivals are adapting. South by southwest was cancelled, but its been showcasing films in its line up by putting them online. Case in point, a short horrorfilm called regret, from director santiago menghini. They could have easilyjust closed down the festival and just said, sorry, just the circumstances are what they are and operate, you know, with the intention of starting up next year. But they didnt, they actually came back to us and said, look, were really working on something for everyone to have an opportunity to show the film. Even now, since theyve announced this platform, its been released, i have been getting a lot of great feedback on something i wouldnt have had if it wasnt for their initiative and the effort to really help the film makers, i would have been left basically abandoned. Clearly the global Film Industry is being rocked by the pandemic. The damage will almost certainly continue to be done. Experts believe it will take months, even years, for the movie business to recover. Now lets move to pandemic themed films, movies that deal with pandemics, like Steven Soderberghs contagion, have been streamed in record numbers in recent days by audiences preoccupied by current events. But, as emma jones reports, contagion is just one of many films that speak to our predicament. 100 years ago, a deadly influenza virus infected hundreds of millions of people. This is pandemic, a documentary investigating virus outbreaks and how to prevent the next one. Eerily, it arrived on netflix around the same time as the public became aware of a virus called covid i9. Since then its been streamed millions of times, presumably for the benefit of hindsight. Within one month a virus can spread throughout the country. A month after that, it is widespread throughout the world. Actually experiencing contagion has resurrected Steven Soderberghs 2011 film of the same name, which has been watched again by millions with fresh eyes. Made with the advice of medical experts, contagion is a sober examination of a pandemic spreading across the world with now all too familiar themes. It really foretold what we
are experiencing today. Its obviously in greater numbers in the film, but in terms of the way it spread, it starts in hong kong, this fictional virus in the movie, and it spreads via the way that this current virus spreads. The average person touches their faces three to five times every waking minute. The question is not if we get patients, its when well get them. 93 days by steve gukas, starring danny glover, actually deals with a historic outbreak of ebola in nigeria, which was contained. But hollywood has also treated sickness as a standard blockbuster plot device, an enemy to be defeated. What chance did 1995s outbreak, caused by a monkey smuggled into california carrying a lethal virus, have against these a list actors . Weve got 19 dead, weve got 100 more infected, it spreading like a bushfire. What are you talking about . If one of thems got it,
then ten of them have got it now. Its not just films about pandemics which play upon the human fear of infection. That fear also stalks a whole movie genre, the horrorfilm, where often an epidemic can unleash a feature that nobodys quite bargained for. Whats interesting is how many different monster movies seem to reflect our fears of infection and disease. If you think about any dracula film, theres that fear that something might come from across the sea, from another land, it might affect our country and spread out throughout society, and how scary that is. Zombies used to be the shambling reanimated corpses that lurched through graveyards. It really changed with 28 days later, the film directed by danny boyle and written by alex garland. In that, they are no longer reanimated corpses, they are people who have been affected by a virus. It has those scenes of an empty london, which we are seeing in reality at the moment. World war z with brad pitt, in that film its really about globalisation, about how these infections dont just take over a city or a building but can spread throughout the world. Is anyone doing better than we are . The isolation that an estimated quarter of the globe are experiencing now has been anticipated in films such such as i am legend, where will smith seems totally alone in a post apocalyptic new york, to oldboy by park chan wook, where the main character is locked up for 15 years without human contact. But if alone is bad, alone with someone else can be worse. Just look at what happens in the lighthouse by robert eggers, where two men are isolated for weeks on an island. In a couple of years were going to see the creative effects of the coronavirus outbreak in cinemas. What you think were going to see . It is going to be heavyweight political dramas, of course, with actors pretending to be donald trump, its going to be slasher movies and stalker movies with people being chased through the empty streets during the eerie lockdown, heist movies set at the same time, people robbing the banks with no one around, there are going to be romantic dramas, romantic comedies with people falling in love over social media or people falling in love across the street from each other but, of course, they cant get close because of the lockdown. Theyre going to be so many films set during this crisis that we are going to get sick of it. Watch this. Its transmission. So we just need to know which direction. Until now, hollywoods portrayal of infection always brought along a solution. A vaccine, or perhaps brad pitt. The time of coronavirus means this generation of moviegoers could find it much harder to accept that a hero really can come and save the day. With everyone cooped up in their homes with nowhere to go,
the pandemic has led to a huge increase in streaming in recent days. So much so that the surge in streaming may further change the way in which we watch movies in the future. Perhaps hastening the demise of the traditional cinema. I certainly hope that isnt the case. Anyway, streaming is now very popular. I spoke to movie lovers in the us, india, china, germany, japan and denmark, and it was no surprise to find that all of them in the midst of this pandemic have been streaming movies, sometimes for hours at a stretch. There are no movie theatres, there is nowhere else to experience moving images other than on your computer screen, so i think that streaming platforms have become full on opportunity for people to watch film and tv now, so its a historic high. So what films have people been watching in their homes . Sergei lives in tokyo. Ive definitely been watching
several pandemic films. The one most watched lately, i think, is outbreak. I hear from most of my friends, they do watch those films lately. Especially now, like, in the last week, because everyone is depressed, in general. Your town is being quarantined. Movie lover fatima, who lives in arizona, has rather different tastes. I have a few friends who are watching some more of those dystopic pandemic movies, but i find myself drawn more to movies that draw a sense of comfort, the feel good kind, just to comfort myself during these uncertain times. It is hard to single out the ideal movie to watch in these pandemic times. You know, the movie that almost everyone i know has been turning to for comfort, suddenly, seems to be moonstruck, the romantic comedy starring cher and nicolas cage thats set in brooklyn heights. If youre based in new york like i am, its a nice reminder of what it like outside. Do you love him, loretta . I love him awful. Thats too bad. She loves me. Its the right amount of escapism, without seeming too sickly sweet. The pandemic hasnt just prompted millions to drift to streaming platforms, but its also had an impact on film makers. In delhi, the pandemic has given director Tariq Vasudeva much food for thought. What it makes me think is once this is over, there has to be a shift in how people are approaching cinema, and how much they are. How much they are exploring the idea of unity. With audiences becoming so accustomed to streaming movies at home during the pandemic, there are concerns that once the coronavirus outbreak has subsided, cinemas will remain empty, they could just disappear. Jad salfiti is a british journalist based in berlin. There are many, many excellent independent cinemas here in berlin, and they are the ones that will be hit the hardest. There is no end in sight for slef isolation, they are going to be closed at least until the end of april, so its not clear what will happen to many of these independent cinemas. But some moviegoers take a more optimistic view. Actually, when the cinemas open again, i think that people are going to go to the cinemas a lot, at least the first couple of weeks, and then its probably going to come down a bit and be just like before. Because right now, i think a lot of people are tired ofjust, like sitting at home and streaming. I mean, its ok, but sometimes its also nice to come alike, get out of the house, meet with some friends and see something on a big screen. But with all this streaming taking place, its become clear that in the midst of this pandemic, the magic of cinema still prevails. It is definitely helping to take people away from disconcerting realities. As esteemed film maker david lynch once stated, cinema is like opening a door and going into a new world. While the streaming giants are getting most of the attention in these days of social distancing, there is a host of smaller streaming platforms online offering some great alternatives. From his home in connecticut, film critic noah gittel has been looking at whats available beyond the mainstream. Like many people around the world, ive had some extra time at home lately, and im spending it watching movies. What ive discovered is that theres a whole world of cinema beyond the usual suspects of streaming services, and for those smaller streamers looking to break out, this could be the moment. International streaming services that could see a boom in viewing numbers include spuul, which focuses on indian content and has over 1000 films and series, as well as asian crush, which focuses on asian cinema
and could be a destination for fans of parasite, this years best picture winnerfrom korea. Other services such as movie, which features a hand picked selection of Award Winning cinema that is curated monthly, shutter, a haven for horror fans and shout factory tv, which specialises in cult and b movies, are all offering free or low cost trials, hoping to lose viewers that are looking for titles beyond the offerings at netflix, amazon and hulu. I think that these companies, they recognise that they have an Incredible Opportunity here to reach audiences that might not otherwise be kind of compelled to search for something that they dont already have. So they are reallyjust trying to load and then with an extended free trial and then, of course communal, the hope with any free trial is that people either forget to cancel or like it enough to keep subscribing. In fact, the streaming service
landscape is getting more crowded now than ev