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Coronavirus has begun to affect every aspect of our lives, specifically, it has begun affecting film making. The first famous actor to contract the disease was Tom Hanks, who made this statement-“Hello, folks. Rita and I are down here in Australia. We felt a bit tired, like we had colds, and some body aches. Rita had some chills that came and went. Slight fevers too. To play things right, as is needed in the world right now, we were tested for the Coronavirus, and were found to be positive. Well, now. What to do next? The Medical Officials have protocols that must be followed. We Hanks’ will be tested, observed, and isolated for as long as public health and safety requires. Not much more to it than a one-day-at-a-time approach, no? We’ll keep the world posted and updated. Take care of yourselves!” Tom Hanks contracted the disease while filming a movie about Elvis Presley in Australia. The COVID-19 pandemic is roiling the film and entertainment industries. The Chinese industry was hit almost immediately as all movie theaters across the country were shut down and made productions nonexistent. Hollywood soon began to feel the effects of this pandemic, too, with all operations shutting down and theaters closed. It is expected that the impact of Coronavirus on the filmmaking and entertainment industry will certainly grow. With the postponement of mostly all filmmaking projects, we will be stuck without new material for a short amount of time before the quarantine is over. Once the pandemic is gone, the film industry will come roaring back to life and great new films will be released. One interesting and thought worry effect from this pandemic is that after this quarantine is over, within the months following, an incredible documentary will be released. This documentary will most likely consist of the things we wish we could see while we were going through it, like hotspots and hospitals, places we would never want to visit, but wanted to see.