With still over two weeks before the events were set to take place, organizers of the Palm Springs Film Awards Gala and BAFTA Tea Party canceled their events on Monday.
The American Film Institute, meanwhile, postponed its annual AFI Awards luncheon to a later date.
The cancelations, coupled with others over the last week, raise concerns about whether the pandemic surge will take down other events scheduled in the coming weeks.For months, the industry seemed to be marching toward a version of normal not seen since the start of the pandemic.
But that’s changed in just the last week, as the spread of the Omicron variant and a rising number of overall cases led to the postponement of the LA premiere of “Cyrano,” while the producers of “Saturday Night Live” pivoted at the last minute to a pared-down show with no audience.
Meantime, CNN, Lionsgate, and Starz closed their offices,
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