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Despite the crisis, Netflix has already revived certain shootings

5/5/2020, 6:57:07 PM


The streaming giant adapts by all means.

At Netflix, resilience in times of crisis is synonymous with resilience. While the coronavirus epidemic has frozen the audiovisual production sector on a planetary scale, the giant of video streaming has already turned on the cameras.

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Modestly, for the time being, since Hollywood remains confined. The platform has resumed filming in South Korea, Japan and Iceland. And it plans to film this month in Sweden, before restarting its operations in Norway, from July. So many "laboratories" that have already enabled Netflix to extract some valuable lessons.

In a column published in the Los Angeles Times, Ted Sarandos, the world director of content at Netflix, shared the first feedback. In Korea, where he produced the drama Move to Heaven and the romantic series Love Alarm, screening being reserved for people with symptoms, the actors and team members have their temperature checked regularly. In case of fever

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