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'We are the Guinea pigs': Hollywood restarts blockbuster machine

Roughly 750 people are involved in the $200 million production of Jurassic World, which restarted on July 6, and the set would normally be a hive of activity

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Jurassic World: Dominion is among the major Hollywood studio films to restart production since the global shutdown in March. Photo: John Wilson/Universal Pictures & Amblin Entertainment

Nicole Sperling & Brooks Barnes | NYT
Like most actors, Bryce Dallas Howard is used to showing up on film sets knowing what lines she’s supposed to say, when she’s supposed to say them and, often, not much more.
 
Things are very different on Jurassic World: Dominion, one of the first major Hollywood studio films to restart production since the coronavirus pandemic led to a global shutdown in March. Before agreeing to return to Pinewood Studios outside London, Howard and other members of the cast grilled producers and executives from the studio behind the movie, Universal, through a series of Zoom calls and emails about what precautions