Los Angeles — The crew fled so quickly after last week’s decision to delay filming of Mission: Impossible 7, Paramount Pictures forgot to cancel the welcome party at the opulent Gritti Palace Hotel in Venice, Italy. When a handful of straggling technical workers showed up, they feasted with silver cutlery and exquisite china in a mostly abandoned banquet hall.
That kind of confusion — and needless spending — has been characteristic of Hollywood in the coronavirus era. On-location production work, often planned years in advance, has been rescheduled at great cost. After halting filming in Venice, Paramount said this week that Mission: Impossible shooting scheduled for Rome later in March would also be delayed. And even completed films are in trouble: shuttered cinemas in Asia have forced studios to scrap some premieres and rethink their schedules for the rest of the year...
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