With production grinding to a halt in the face of the novel coronavirus, the entertainment industry has found itself navigating uncharted territory.
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Producer Alan Poul had been in Tokyo, shooting the pilot for HBO Max's Tokyo Vice, when the pandemic started to wreak havoc on Hollywood production.
Though both the spread and response was quite a bit different where he was, Poul and his fellow producers, along with director Michael Mann, Endeavor Content and HBO Max, made the call to cease filming over the weekend of March 14, and.