“Most productions will remain on hiatus until the second or third week of January, if not later,” said actors’ union SAG-AFTRA in a press release sent to its members on Tuesday evening.
A few days earlier, Los Angeles County health officials had urged filmmakers to “consider taking a break from work for a few weeks during this catastrophic increase in Covid cases.”
Los Angeles, the most populous county in the United States with some ten million inhabitants, has become one of the main hotbeds of the coronavirus pandemic in the country and is beating almost daily contaminations records, with hospitals overwhelmed by new cases. To date, some 750. 000 cases have been officially identified in the county, where the disease has made nearly 000. 000 dead
Insufficient precautions
The SAG-AFTRA union had stepped up initiatives to try to relaunch filming in Hollywood since their total shutdown last March, in particular through an agreement signed in September with the princ to the studios on the health measures to be implemented to protect the actors, in particular rigorous tests.
Despite these precautions, productions struggled to take off again in Los Angeles. In October, their activity rate did not even reach 20% of the usual level in this period, and the outbreak of contaminations further reduced it in recent weeks. 
Apart from a few dozen independent films, very few feature films were shot this year in the Los Angeles area with most of the business focusing on commercials and video clips.
Conversely, big budget films have relaunched their shootings outside the United States, like Tom Cruise and his new opus of Impossible mission in the UK and Italy, or the TV series Supergirl and Batwoman in Canada.
One of the elements that frees The resumption of films in California is the refusal of insurers to take charge of filming incidents linked to the coronavirus.
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