A coalition of Hollywood studios and entertainment guilds have dispatched a letter to newly installed President Joe Biden detailing in broad strokes what his administration can to do help the entertainment industry recover from the COVID-19 crisis. "First and foremost, we support efforts to help America overcome the challenges of COVID-19.
For much of 2020 through to the present, significant portions of the industry shuttered. The pandemic has put roughly 465,000 film and television jobs in the U.S.
at risk," read the letter, which was signed by the Motion Picture Association, the DGA, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, IFTA and the AFL-CIO (DPE). "Production will not return to normal levels until the country gets on top of the COVID crisis," they told.