CBNC reported recently that Contagion “incorporated input from more than a dozen scientists, emergency room doctors, bio-safety experts and epidemiologists.” They acknowledge that the “film is by no ...

The 2011 film “Contagion,” featuring an all-star cast of Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Jude Law and Laurence Fishburne, has seen a resurgence. People are rewatching the movie and ...

Burns recently told Variety what he thought about the American government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. The Contagion screenwriter said he was “terrified” when the Trump administration ...

The subject matter for the film Contagion has hit a little too close to home for the movie's senior technical advisor. Dr. Ian Lipkin, the director for the Center for Infection and Immunity at ...

That, it turns out, is the film’s defining emotion. “Contagion” is a bad-dream biomedical disaster movie whose power is that it refuses, at every moment, to be “science fiction.” The film charts the ...

Life is imitating art as the coronavirus spreads, and people apparently can’t get enough of a book and film that depict world-shattering pandemics. The 1981 Dean Koontz novel The Eyes of Darkness and ...

Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet, and Jennifer Ehle have filmed short PSAs aimed at providing factual information about the disease—and how to slow its spread. Almost ...

The 2011 movie “Contagion” follows the worldwide pandemic of a virus from Asia that kills millions. Compared to the Wuhan coronavirus, the virus in the movie is highly transmissible and highly deadly, ...

Steven Soderbergh's 2011 film "Contagion" was so accurate in depicting a pandemic that UC San Diego professor Joel Wertheim uses it to teach a class on epidemiology. Wertheim is a UC San Diego ...