h “a fi it‘a'fi fi it‘uié: if t “a ii if ‘ui%i le $33 our heroes. i think the dress up aspects emphasises to get out of the pyjamas feel fast, but the suits are not something a bit smarter, whatever it is, just have fun. what will you be wearing then? i'm not going to give away anything that i am for fancy dress. i don't know what i'm wearing because it is not planned for way. none of the family know what they're going to be wearing, ido, but know what they're going to be wearing, i do, but i'm not giving it away until video tomorrow, but trust me, you want to see what they are wearing. we have got our tutorials on social media so you can see all of them on instagram and today we've put another video where we're dancing all in random places around the house to really make it more fun and just for us it is light—hearted but we want to use our time wisely, we are stuck here at home, we are obviously self—isolating, it is about using our time to help others because so many people are doing so

many things right now to help everybody. and the thing is, we need to come away as a nation, so doing the clapping at night, the whole nation is doing and supporting each other, so whether it is everybody can be something together and to raise money for the nhs, they have helped me in my knee operation and they have help my dad, they are very close to us and they are very good in everything they do and they need more money with the crisis that we are in. i promise you are not making this up with the microphone is never ajay so ajay, i have got a really good idea, why don't i talk to you while in the background, curtis, you can while in the background, curtis, you ca n start while in the background, curtis, you can start giving us a small example of the kind of dance moves you are advocating. so go ahead, i know you have a warm up, we will take that into account. while you are doing that, ajay, why did you get the, 0k, i can't see myself doing that but never mind. justice and bum wiggle

is for us. is that your mum is well? she is not meant to be here that she hasjoined us, it is about she is not meant to be here that she has joined us, it is about having fun, releasing good endorphins and raising money for the nhs. it is ha rd raising money for the nhs. it is hard right now, we see the same four walls, this is having fun as a family. where did the idea from? it was close to curtis' had to work with the nhs, once we heard everybody clapping for the nhs, we are professional dancers, we will use our time wisely to do it, a dance video had to be done. they dress up idea was mine to get out of my clothes, i need to put up some smart clothes on, i don't know what he will dress me in on sunday, i don't know what he is doing now, it looks like yoga, but it is easy enough for everybody. brilliant, you

have both been really good sports, good like tomorrow and thanks to the pritchett family for putting a smile on ourfaces. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willetts. good afternoon. the dry weather should continue for the rest of the day after the morning mist and fog. weather fronts are bringing weatherfronts are bringing rain weather fronts are bringing rain to shetland in particular. but because the winds are from the south, temperatures are higher than yesterday and with the wind strengthening through the night and pushing the remainder of their showers out of their way, it should not be as cold because of the strength of that wind. it should be largely frost free and therefore they should be lots of sunshine on sunday morning and not the problem with mist and fog because the wind is a bit stronger. side of england and wales. and also northern ireland, through the afternoon. even the arrival of spots of rain before dark.

and you can see why. we have got a weather front coming in and send gale force winds in the north and west. but because it is a southerly wind, we are pulling in much warmer air so temperatures will be warmer than today once again. now on bbc news, in a special pandemic edition of talking movies the programme looks at how the coronavirus has devastated the movie industry in many parts of the world. hello, and welcome to this special edition of talking movies, coming to you from my home on new york's upper west side. in the midst of this coronavirus pandemic, we've been working together remotely and collectively as a programming team to look at the impact of the virus on the global film

industry. of course, the struggles of the movie business pales in comparison to what's been happening in terms of the human cost of this disease, but in some parts of the world, the film industry has been totally crippled by the pandemic. china was the first major country to be hit by the virus, and its nationalfilm industry has been severely hurt. production has been closed down, as have cinemas. with the impact of coronavirus waning in china, cinemas almost opened last weekend, but the government ordered them to remain closed at the last minute. when they do reopen, going to the movies isn't exactly going to feel festive. director and cinematographer yanqiu fei lives in shanghai. on the news we learned that when the cinema reopens, they are going to follow a strict rule of disinfection for the whole cinema, and every audience will be requested to show their health care code,

also kept their temperature checked. and the cinema will remain social distancing within the audience, meaning everyone will have an empty seat in between. 0h, also you have to wear a mask all the time. for india, the world's largest producer of movies, the lockdown has taken the life out of bollywood and the big regionalfilm industries. indians love their movies, so the closing of cinemas has been very hard. it's left us catatonic. we have no idea what to do, because cinema is like, you know, a drug in our veins, that we need our weekly fix, and we are completely lost without it. i don't think we've ever seen such a big devastation, actually, because it's a nationwide lockdown now for a few weeks, till april “i, actually, three weeks, so it's a big shock and i think... i mean, we've survived all kinds of other disasters, natural disasters, floods, famine, all kinds of stuff. riots, communal riots. but this, we've never seen something as comprehensive as this,

because the whole nation is under lockdown. hollywood, of course, has been upended by the virus. bond. james bond. the newjames bond movie was the first major picture to be postponed. others have followed suit. the disaster has shut down production at virtually every american movie company. it's completely stopped. initially, whenever, you know, the virus first started coming to the united states, it was that projections are being suspended for a couple months or a couple weeks, everything has stopped indefinitely. i'm thinking of, you know, bigger movies like fantastic beasts, the matrix 4 movie, every disney, marvel show, every netflix show, every hbo show, the friends reunion, for example is postponed indefinitely until this is under control. i don't want to stay here. i'm sorry, i would never... hey, hey. see? right now my priority is giving my baby somewhere safe, do you understand?

some studio movies placed in cinemas were subsequently made available by the screening giants. this is a very significant move, with ramifications for the entire industry. typically are 90 days between when a movie finishes its run and theatres and is available on screen on demand, and for a long time some studios and some streaming sites like netflix or hulu have been trying to chip away at that 90 days, because it is a big loss for them, financially. and so i think now... now that we are seeing new releases come on streaming, on demand, so much quicker, that might be a really lasting change. normally at this time of the year, the movie industry would be looking forward to the cannes film festival, which is held in may. but cannes has been postponed, as have dozens of other film—related events. but festivals are adapting. south by southwest was cancelled, but it's been showcasing films in its line—up by putting them online. case in point, a short horrorfilm called regret, from director santiago menghini.

they could have easilyjust closed down the festival and just said, sorry, just the circumstances are what they are and operate, you know, with the intention of starting up next year. but they didn't, they actually came back to us and said, look, we're really working on something for everyone to have an opportunity to show the film. even now, since they've announced this platform, it's been released, i have been getting a lot of great feedback on something i wouldn't have had if it wasn't for their initiative and the effort to really help the film—makers, i would have been left basically abandoned. clearly the global film industry is being rocked by the pandemic. the damage will almost certainly continue to be done. experts believe it will take months, even years, for the movie business to recover. now let's move to pandemic themed films, movies that deal with pandemics, like steven soderbergh's contagion, have been streamed in record numbers in recent days by audiences preoccupied by current events.

but, as emma jones reports, contagion is just one of many films that speak to our predicament. 100 years ago, a deadly influenza virus infected hundreds of millions of people. this is pandemic, a documentary investigating virus outbreaks and how to prevent the next one. eerily, it arrived on netflix around the same time as the public became aware of a virus called covid—i9. since then it's been streamed millions of times, presumably for the benefit of hindsight. within one month a virus can spread throughout the country. a month after that, it is widespread throughout the world. actually experiencing contagion has resurrected steven soderbergh's 2011 film of the same name, which has been watched again by millions with fresh eyes. made with the advice of medical experts, contagion is a sober examination of a pandemic spreading across the world with now all too familiar themes. it really foretold what we

are experiencing today. it's obviously in greater numbers in the film, but in terms of the way it spread, it starts in hong kong, this fictional virus in the movie, and it spreads via the way that this current virus spreads. the average person touches their faces three to five times every waking minute. the question is not if we get patients, it's when we'll get them. 93 days by steve gukas, starring danny glover, actually deals with a historic outbreak of ebola in nigeria, which was contained. but hollywood has also treated sickness as a standard blockbuster plot device, an enemy to be defeated. what chance did 1995's outbreak, caused by a monkey smuggled into california carrying a lethal virus, have against these a—list actors? we've got 19 dead, we've got 100 more infected, it spreading like a bushfire. what are you talking about? if one of them's got it,

then ten of them have got it now. it's not just films about pandemics which play upon the human fear of infection. that fear also stalks a whole movie genre, the horrorfilm, where often an epidemic can unleash a feature that nobody‘s quite bargained for. what's interesting is how many different monster movies seem to reflect our fears of infection and disease. if you think about any dracula film, there's that fear that something might come from across the sea, from another land, it might affect our country and spread out throughout society, and how scary that is. zombies used to be the shambling reanimated corpses that lurched through graveyards. it really changed with 28 days later, the film directed by danny boyle and written by alex garland. in that, they are no longer reanimated corpses, they are people who have been affected by a virus. it has those scenes of an empty london, which we are seeing in reality at the moment.

world war z with brad pitt, in that film it's really about globalisation, about how these infections don't just take over a city or a building but can spread throughout the world. is anyone doing better than we are? the isolation that an estimated quarter of the globe are experiencing now has been anticipated in films such such as i am legend, where will smith seems totally alone in a post—apocalyptic new york, to oldboy by park chan—wook, where the main character is locked up for 15 years without human contact. but if alone is bad, alone with someone else can be worse. just look at what happens in the lighthouse by robert eggers, where two men are isolated for weeks on an island. in a couple of years we're going to see the creative effects of the coronavirus outbreak in cinemas.

what you think we're going to see? it is going to be heavyweight political dramas, of course, with actors pretending to be donald trump, it's going to be slasher movies and stalker movies with people being chased through the empty streets during the eerie lockdown, heist movies set at the same time, people robbing the banks with no one around, there are going to be romantic dramas, romantic comedies with people falling in love over social media or people falling in love across the street from each other but, of course, they can't get close because of the lockdown. they're going to be so many films set during this crisis that we are going to get sick of it. watch this. it's transmission. so we just need to know which direction. until now, hollywood's portrayal of infection always brought along a solution. a vaccine, or perhaps brad pitt. the time of coronavirus means this generation of moviegoers could find it much harder to accept that a hero really can come and save the day. with everyone cooped up in their homes with nowhere to go,

the pandemic has led to a huge increase in streaming in recent days. so much so that the surge in streaming may further change the way in which we watch movies in the future. perhaps hastening the demise of the traditional cinema. i certainly hope that isn't the case. anyway, streaming is now very popular. i spoke to movie lovers in the us, india, china, germany, japan and denmark, and it was no surprise to find that all of them in the midst of this pandemic have been streaming movies, sometimes for hours at a stretch. there are no movie theatres, there is nowhere else to experience moving images other than on your computer screen, so i think that streaming platforms have become full on opportunity for people to watch film and tv now, so it's a historic high. so what films have people been watching in their homes? sergei lives in tokyo. i've definitely been watching

several pandemic films. the one most watched lately, i think, is outbreak. i hear from most of my friends, they do watch those films lately. especially now, like, in the last week, because everyone is depressed, in general. your town is being quarantined. movie lover fatima, who lives in arizona, has rather different tastes. i have a few friends who are watching some more of those dystopic pandemic movies, but i find myself drawn more to movies that draw a sense of comfort, the feel—good kind, just to comfort myself during these uncertain times. it is hard to single out the ideal movie to watch in these pandemic times. you know, the movie that almost everyone i know has been turning to for comfort, suddenly, seems to be moonstruck, the romantic comedy starring cher and nicolas cage that's set in brooklyn heights. if you're based in new york like i am, it's a nice reminder of what it like outside.

do you love him, loretta? i love him awful. that's too bad. she loves me. it's the right amount of escapism, without seeming too sickly sweet. the pandemic hasn't just prompted millions to drift to streaming platforms, but it's also had an impact on film—makers. in delhi, the pandemic has given director tariq vasudeva much food for thought. what it makes me think is once this is over, there has to be a shift in how people are approaching cinema, and how much they are... how much they are exploring the idea of unity. with audiences becoming so accustomed to streaming movies at home during the pandemic, there are concerns that once the coronavirus outbreak has subsided, cinemas will remain empty, they could just disappear. jad salfiti is a british journalist based in berlin. there are many, many excellent independent cinemas here in berlin, and they are the ones that will be hit the hardest.

there is no end in sight for slef isolation, they are going to be closed at least until the end of april, so it's not clear what will happen to many of these independent cinemas. but some moviegoers take a more optimistic view. actually, when the cinemas open again, i think that people are going to go to the cinemas a lot, at least the first couple of weeks, and then it's probably going to come down a bit and be just like before. because right now, i think a lot of people are tired ofjust, like sitting at home and streaming. i mean, it's ok, but sometimes it's also nice to come alike, get out of the house, meet with some friends and see something on a big screen. but with all this streaming taking place, it's become clear that in the midst of this pandemic, the magic of cinema still prevails. it is definitely helping to take people away from disconcerting realities. as esteemed film—maker david lynch once stated, cinema is like opening a door and going into a new world.

while the streaming giants are getting most of the attention in these days of social distancing, there is a host of smaller streaming platforms online offering some great alternatives. from his home in connecticut, film critic noah gittel has been looking at what's available beyond the mainstream. like many people around the world, i've had some extra time at home lately, and i'm spending it watching movies. what i've discovered is that there's a whole world of cinema beyond the usual suspects of streaming services, and for those smaller streamers looking to break out, this could be the moment. international streaming services that could see a boom in viewing numbers include spuul, which focuses on indian content and has over 1000 films and series, as well as asian crush, which focuses on asian cinema

and could be a destination for fans of parasite, this year's best picture winnerfrom korea. other services such as movie, which features a hand—picked selection of award—winning cinema that is curated monthly, shutter, a haven for horror fans and shout factory tv, which specialises in cult and b—movies, are all offering free or low—cost trials, hoping to lose viewers that are looking for titles beyond the offerings at netflix, amazon and hulu. i think that these companies, they recognise that they have an incredible opportunity here to reach audiences that might not otherwise be kind of compelled to search for something that they don't already have. so they are reallyjust trying to load and then with an extended free trial and then, of course communal, the hope with any free trial is that people either forget to cancel or like it enough to keep subscribing. in fact, the streaming service

landscape is getting more crowded now than ever, with theatrical distributors and physical cinemas themselves even getting into the game. film and video distributor kino lorber has launched virtual marquee, partnering with 150 american independent theatres to stream the films that they would have been showing been showing in cinemas and splitting the revenue. they started their programme with bacurau, an award—winning brazilian western that was slated to open on march 6th. what's interesting about our programme is that although this was developed as kind of an interim, as a stopgap to allow theatres to recapture revenue while the physical doors were closed, we see this as a way of creating a virtual expansion of the screening opportunities. even if they go back to normal, they are very pressed, most of the time, to play films quickly, move them out, they are locked in calendar schedules and such. well, suddenly with the kino marquee programme they will have now

virtual screens to play on. it isa it is a change that could stretch to all corners of the movie world, with ripple effects that are hard to predict. at least for now, independent cinema seems to have an advantage, while new blockbusters are being postponed to later this year or are being postponed to later this year 01’ even are being postponed to later this year or even 2021, the latest independent films are nowjust a click away. around the world, the film—making community is responding to the pandemic with stories directly related to the impact it is having. ten directors in greece have just completed short films on the subject and some are very moving. life can find a home during the pandemic is the theme of ten new

short films completed by top greek film—makers, at the behest of a film festival when it postponed its documentary festival last month. it's artistic director would like creativity to flourish in this time of darkness. art can be made in any situation as long as there is an artist or an audience. our partners implement creation, give the means to this hope. we are asking film directors to make a movie in their confinement. it is a liberating action, because there is no borders within four walls. we are staying home, washing our hands properly and making films without disinfectant. among the films made for this endeavour in the past few days was shot within the home of one director. the camera pans across piles of books in her home.

director. the camera pans across piles of books in her homelj decided to do it because at the time i was rearranging the books on the book shelves in the house. by doing this, i was coming face—to—face with my past and my previous lives, so this three minute film is about the experience of time, the fact we are co nsta ntly experience of time, the fact we are constantly in a rush and suddenly we're fourth to sit back ——. to sit back and look at our lives, look at ourselves and look at our role in society and the world. another short film is called foghorn, defined by that sound. it is an abstract work featuring for —— teaching wetlands and animals. it makes use of previously shutter material. my film ended up to be about some pretty bleak atmosphere of the city, athens

in silence, incontrast to the happiness of animals that see human action not being there any more. the man behind this collective creative endeavour was motivated by a desire to help the film—making community but also wants to give people hope and demonstrate that art can play a role in bringing that about. we are strong, we are fighting. the last yea rs, strong, we are fighting. the last years, during this big economic crisis particularly in greece, we question the role of the artist and said it was not important, and now billions of people are inside their homes, consuming out. and so it is the fundamental of our society and existence. the completed films will be shown on the youtube channel for the film festival. the endeavour is just one of the many ways in which film—makers and film festivals are

responding to the pandemic, when the desire to be creative trumps the stress and anxiety that could be holding film—makers back. well, that brings the special edition of talking movies to a close. we hope you have enjoyed the programme. peta member you can a lwa ys programme. peta member you can always reach us online, and you can find us on facebook and twitter. —— please remember. from me, tom brook, and the rest of the talking movies production team in new york and beyond,it production team in new york and beyond, it is goodbye, as we leave you with a great clip from a hollywood classic which might lift your spirits in the midst of these very difficult times. # i'm singing in the rain. # i'm singing in the rain. #just singing in the rain. #just singing in the rain. # what a glorious feeling, i'm happy

again. # i'm laughing at clouds so dark up above. # the son's in my heart, and i'm ready for love. # let the stormy clouds chase eve ryo ne # let the stormy clouds chase everyone from the place. hello, there. the dry weather, increasingly sunny weather, should continue for the rest of the day after the morning mist and fog. weather fronts in the north are bringing rain to shetland in particular, the odd shower elsewhere, but temperatures are higher than yesterday because the windows from the south, and with the windows from the south, and with the wind strengthening of an item pushing the remainder of the showers out of the way it should not be as cold, we should be largely frost free and there should be a lot of sunshine to come sunday morning and

not the problems it mist and fog because the wind is a bit stronger. there will be changes with hazy sunshine for the western side of england and wales and northern ireland for the afternoon, even the arrival of spots of rain before dark. we have a weather front coming m, dark. we have a weather front coming in, some strong, even gale force winds in the north and west accompany it, but because it is a southerly wind we are putting on a much warmer air, temperatures will be up on today once again.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm rebecca jones. the number of people that have lost their lives to coronavirus in the uk now stands at 4,313 — a rise of 708 in just 2a hours. in just under an hour we'll be live at downing street for the daily government briefing, led by cabinet office minister michael gove and nhs england's national medical director stephen powis. .. with increasingly fine weather expected both