[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]“Essentially, live-action came to an absolute halt.
We needed to stop immediately,” Rusen said.She said the group was able to wrap up shooting on a major action film right up until March 21 when most of Canada’s film industry had already closed up and now they are one of the first in the country to get the all-clear to resume.“It’s one of the many segments of our economy that was decimated during the pandemic,” Economic Development Winnipeg president and CEO Dayna Spiring said.“Now the opportunity in front of us is to go and make the most of the great job Manitobans have done in planking the curve.”As part of the province’s second phase of economic reopening, film.