Latest / Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest / How ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Became One Of The First Blockbusters To Wrap Production During The Pandemic
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest after going on a
- 0:03Speaker 1: sudden hiatus back in March. Jurassic World. Dominion was the
- 0:07Speaker 1: first major studio project to resume filming with safety protocols
- 0:10Speaker 1: in place, and it's now become one of the first
- 0:13Speaker 1: to wrap production post pandemic as well. Once cameras began
- 0:17Speaker 1: rolling again, over forty COVID tests were implemented on the
- 0:20Speaker 1: one thousand strong cast and crew, with only around a
- 0:22Speaker 1: hundred positive tests. Director Collins Travarro tells Deadline, I'm not
- 0:27Speaker 1: sure I can put into words how I feel after wrapping.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Our team has been so resilient. We lived together eight together,
- 0:32Speaker 1: told stories and shared our fears and hopes. There's a
- 0:35Speaker 1: lot of laughter at a time when it's hard to
- 0:37Speaker 1: find things to laugh about. The entire bill for the
- 0:39Speaker 1: safety protocols was over eight million dollars, enough to finance
- 0:43Speaker 1: a smaller film entirely pre pandemic, but only a fraction
- 0:47Speaker 1: of its one sixty five million dollar budget, and considering
- 0:50Speaker 1: it allowed them to keep everybody's safe. Money will spend
- 0:53Speaker 1: that's Direct from Hollywood