Razzie Awards Producers Debate Canceling Ceremony Due To Coronavirus

The newest Hollywood-related occasion to fall prey to the coronavirus outbreak is the Razzie Awards, which had been set to happen in Los Angeles final night time. Over the previous few weeks, the leisure trade has regularly begun to regulate its common practices to deal with the rising concern over the unfold of COVID-19, and issues reached one thing of a fever pitch over the past couple of days. Studios have delayed major films and shut down productions whereas occasions corresponding to CinemaCon, SXSW, and ACE Comedian Con have been cancelled.

Deadline reported that the Razzie Awards, given yearly to the worst in movie, had been “cancelled/postponed.” John Wilson, one of many Razzie’s co-founders, issued a press release explaining that, attributable to cautionary measures put in place by the Mayor of Los Angeles, the Razzies’ chosen venue had been shut down. When issuing the assertion, Wilson mentioned, “we hope to have one thing to disseminate by tonight – Even perhaps by what had been our unique “curtain time” of eight p.m. tonight (Saturday, March 14). Clearly, if there is no such thing as a dwell present, there’s nothing to be streamed, both.” Nevertheless, as of but, they haven’t discovered an answer.

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Sometimes, the Razzie Awards are handed out the day earlier than the Oscars, however this yr they have been pressured to happen a lot later because of the Oscars being sooner than regular. Of this yr’s nominees, the leaders have been Cats, Rambo: Final Blood, and A Madea Household Funeral, all of which scored eight nominations. This was the primary yr the Razzies have been anticipated to be televised.

Extra movies to attain a number of nominations have been The Fantatic, The Haunting of Sharon Tate, and Hellboy. The Razzie Awards have been first handed out in 1981 in Wilson’s lounge as a joke. It was solely in later years that it turned a public occasion.

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