This year marks the 10-year anniversary of Contagion. Here's what the cast has been up to lately...

It's TOO real.

That movie is feeling more like a documentary everyday.

The cast of the unfortunately relevant film is coming together (virtually) to spread a message.

Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Laurence Fishburne and Jennifer Ehle on how to flatten the curve.

As you're probably well aware by now, Steven Soderbergh's 2011 film Contagion turned out to be extremely prescient as we live through the current outbreak of COVID-19. The cast themselves are also aware and have partnered with scientists from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health to share evidence-based PSAs about staying safe and stopping the spread of COVID-19. So far, Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, and Laurence Fishburne have participated, with more videos on the way. These are all genuinely great, as the partnership with UMSPH makes them more than just a familiar face …

The irony would be funny if any of this was funny.

AMC has greenlit National Anthem, an eight-episode musical anthology series created by Contagion writer Scott Z. Burns, and executive produced by Mark Johnson, who won an Oscar for Rain Man and a pair of Emmys for Breaking Bad, the network announced Tuesday. National Anthem is described as a tragically funny musical dramedy about a middle class midwestern family tumbling down the ladder of American society who periodically burst into song as they struggle to catch themselves. Oscar winner T Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart) is attached as the series' music producer, with words and music by Craig Finn of the …

This week on The Collider.com Podcast, we're pivoting to a new format. We typically talk about the big new releases in theaters, but with coronavirus shutting everything down, this week we're talking about COVID-19's impact on the film industry, which changes could be permanent, and what this means for film fans. We then move to a discussion of our first retrospective title, Steven Sodebergh's 2011 film Contagion. We talk about the ways the film is oddly comforting in 2020, its masterful economy of storytelling, how it fits into Soderbergh's filmography and more. We …

Not all movies about global pandemics have to be zombie movies.

Screenwriter Scott Z. Burns, the man behind 2011's Contagion, is putting his research for the film to good use in calling out the United States' response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Burns recently spoke to Slate about the renewed interest (for lack of a better word) in Contagion as people flock toward it to find some comfort or sanity in these uncertain times. In response to this, Burns began by saying, "Well, obviously, you know, it’s very upsetting to see people getting sick and dying. The part of me that is a human being is more struck by …

Steven Soderbergh's Contagion saw a huge boost in streaming sales as the coronavirus spreads globally, having already killed 300 worldwide.

Steven Soderbergh's 2011 thriller is also about a China-born virus that spreads worldwide.