QUICK HITS

Pandemic postpones movies: Sony Pictures cleared out its summer calendar due to the coronavirus, postponing the releases of Jason Reitman’s “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” and the Marvel movie “Morbius” to 2021. Hollywood’s summer season — the film industry’s most lucrative time of year — is increasingly shutting down because of the pandemic. Theaters nationwide have closed and major film productions have halted with no clear timeline for resuming.

Yellen warning: Janet Yellen, the former chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, warned that the longer the economy is locked down, the worse the recession will be. But she added she was encouraged by the actions of the Fed and the Congress to support the economy.

Children’s author dies: Tomie dePaola, the prolific children’s author and illustrator who delighted generations with tales of Strega Nona, the kindly and helpful old witch in Italy, died at age 85. DePaola died at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He was badly injured in a fall last week and died of complications following surgery.

judge: Release migrants: A federal judge in Washington pressed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release migrants held in family detention centers, citing the imminent risk of coronavirus outbreaks in confinement and their rapid spread to surrounding communities.

New proposal: As lawmakers prepare for another round of fiscal stimulus to address economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested the next package should include a retroactive rollback of a tax change that hurt high earners in states like New York and California.