Coronavirus: 2020 Daytime Emmys, Cannes film festival cancelled

The Daytime Emmys and the Cannes Film festival have been postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Over the last few weeks, Hollywood has suffered the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic with movies having their release dates pushed back and anticipated productions shutting down.

Fresh on the list of film-related events forcefully halting due to coronavirus is the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival and the 47th edition of the Daytime Emmy Award have been postponed indefinitely.

In a Twitter announcement, Cannes organizers confirmed the postponement of the prestigious festival from its scheduled May 12-23 dates to a proposed late June or early July date.