With film production slowly restarting and cinemas reopening amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Credit Suisse analyst Meghan Durkin says Hollywood's content pipeline looks "increasingly risky." And the questions of just how comfortable cinemagoers will be, given the pandemic's current trajectory and how much COVID-19 protocols and insurance are inflating film budgets, have raised red flags for the Wall Street market-watcher. "While theater companies are optimistic regarding a stacked 2021 Hollywood film release slate, benefitting from key 2020 titles pushed out to 2021, we continue to see risk to both 4Q20 and 2021 releases due to concerns regarding movie-goers willingness to return to theaters as COVID-19 lingers," Durkin argued in an Oct.
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