Coronavirus & The Film Industry, Onward, Universal Monsters, The Mandalorian, Ava DuVernay and Quibi

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🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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On the March 9, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor in chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and TV news, including SXSW, Onward, Universal Monsters, The Mandalorian, Ava DuVernay and Quibi. Opening Banter: Peter is back from Florida. In The News: Brad: SXSW Officially Canceled by the City of Austin Due to Coronavirus Precautions Brad: The Cost of Canceling SXSW Could Keep the Festival from Returning in 2021 Ben: ‘Onward’ Had the Lowest Box Office Opening for a Pixar Film Since 2015’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Chris: New Universal Monster Movie Being Developed by James Wan Brad: ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Bringing Back Dave Filoni to Direct Again Ben: Ava DuVernay to Adapt ‘Wings of Fire’ Into an Animated Series Chris: Quibi Offering 90-Day Free Trial For Potential Subscribers All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS). Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at [email protected]. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes, tell your friends and spread the word! Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Our Sponsors: * Check out Express VPN: expressvpn.com/SLASHFILM Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Slash Home Daily for Monday, March 9th, 2020.
0:04.7	On today's episode we're going to talk about the latest film and TV news.
0:07.6	This is Slash Film, editor-in-chief Peter Sorata.
0:10.0	And joining me on today's podcast, slash home weekend editor Brad Omen.
0:14.0	Hey that's me. Senior writer Ben Pearson.
0:17.0	Hey what's going on and writer Chris Evangelista.
0:20.0	Hello folks.
0:21.0	I'm back from Florida.
0:23.2	Last week I was at Walt Disney World and it was crazy there.
0:28.2	It's weird because you'd think the coronavirus would stop people from going on vacation.
0:33.6	Maybe they spent so much on these Disney vacations
0:35.9	that they weren't willing to say no and stay home.
0:40.0	But there was just, it was packed.
0:41.9	There was just many people as you could imagine being at Walt Disney World last week.
0:48.0	You know, there was new rides, new festivals opening, which I'll talk later at some points about but I'm now home I did I'm not
0:58.0	showing any symptoms so that that's probably good not to you know make light of the situations.
1:08.0	It's a very serious thing going on but I am home and I'm happy to be home.
1:12.4	They have closed Disney Parks worldwide that I think three parks worldwide are completely shut down because of you know fears of this virus spreading, you know, tons of things are shutting down.
1:28.0	Last week, South by Southwest, the Film Festival, the Tech Festival, it's a huge thing in Austin Texas that they canceled the festival Brad tell us about that
1:38.0	Yeah, it's a huge thing South by Southwest we go to it for film but but it also has plenty of stand-up concerts, regular
1:45.9	music concerts, tech presentations, panels with various celebrities, politicians, just a bunch of stuff all around and it's huge for the city of
1:54.7	Austin and they had been keeping an eye on the coronavirus stuff leading up to the
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