When COVID-19 took root, you almost knew there would be movies made to cash in on the panic and fear of the pandemic. They came — of course — and the better films to come from that initial period ...
A Dec. 31, 2022, video on Facebook video features several people discussing an upcoming pandemic preparedness exercise involving the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Bill & Melinda ...
Catastrophic Contagion was a tabletop exercise held October 2022 in Belgium that centered on a fictional, rapidly spreading, deadly virus. The exercise’s goal was preparing government and public ...
Thirteen months ago, I stopped watching movies. Not literally — I'd still turn them on, in an attempt to fill the yawning, uneventful evenings — but mentally and emotionally. Pictures moved on the TV, ...
Steven Soderbergh explains why Contagion doesn't have a philosophical sequel yet. Directed by Soderbergh, with a script written by Scott Z. Burns, the 2011 medical thriller follows the spread of a ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Hollywood disaster movie typically comes with quakes, asteroids, tornadoes or aliens ripping the planet to shreds and manly heroes tossing around wisecracks as they carry out ...
Written by Scott Z. Burns and directed by Steven Soderbergh, 2011’s “Contagion” hit No. 10 on the iTunes movie rental chart a year ago in January. In those early months of the pandemic, audiences were ...
In a new interview with GQ, Damon discussed his friendship with Ben Affleck, his upcoming film The Last Duel, and his quarantine experience abroad. While many stayed at home, Damon and his family were ...
The COVID-19 global pandemic has certainly given us all a dramatic and harsh lesson on viral contagion. Perhaps the phrase “going viral” now has a much more jarring and worrisome connotation than ...
The moment I stepped out of the theater after seeing the film Contagion-- a new thriller about the rapid, global outbreak of a flu-like disease spread by both touch and breath -- I thought to myself: ...
Disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo boasted to a congressional committee earlier this year that he had tapped “Contagion” director Steven Soderbergh to discuss his administration’s COVID-19 ...