At home with kids, pets and spouses, country stars play on

NASHVILLE, TENN. » Country music’s biggest stars should have been on the carpet of the Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday in Las Vegas, but like most of America, they were homebound because of the coronavirus. Still, the musicians played on, surrounded by spouses, kids and — in one case — a horse.

“ACM Presents: Our Country,” a TV special aired on CBS in lieu of the delayed awards show, featured acoustic performances, special duets, clips from previous ACM Awards telecasts and a tribute to the late country icon Kenny Rogers. The country artists, spread out from coast to coast, shared details of their home lives, their hopes for the future and their best wishes for the emergency medical workers on the front lines.

Keith Urban, the host for the awards show that now is set to air in September, started the special with an acoustic version of “Wasted Time” from his home studio, which he joked felt like his living room. The only thing missing was his wife and actress Nicole Kidman, who has been seen dancing in some of Urban’s social media videos lately.

Singer Pink had COVID-19, gives $1M to relief funds

LOS ANGELES » The singer Pink has tested positive for COVID-19, she said, also announcing that she is donating $500,000 each to two emergency funds.

In a pair of tweets, Pink said she and her 3-year-old son were displaying symptoms two weeks ago, and she tested positive after accessing tests through a primary care physician.

Pink’s family had already been sheltering at home and continued to do so, she said. They were tested again a few days ago and were negative.

Yifei Liu in the title role of “Mulan.”

Marvel remakes release calendar; ‘Mulan’ moves to late July

NEW YORK » The Walt Disney Co. overhauled its release schedule by moving the dates of half a dozen Marvel movies, announcing a new one for the live-action adaptation of “Mulan” and pushing one movie, “Artemis Fowl,” to Disney Plus, in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

“Black Widow,” the Marvel entry starring Scarlett Johansson, had been set to kick off the summer movie season. Instead, Disney said it will now open Nov. 6. Such delays have unique ramifications for Marvel movies because of their interconnection. With “Black Widow” on the move, that meant a domino effect, pushing most upcoming Marvel releases back at least three months.

“Black Widow” took the release date of “The Eternals,” which now moves to Feb. 21 next year. “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” departs that February date for May 7, 2021. “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” shifts from next May to Nov. 5, 2021. And “Thor: Love and Thunder” is pushed three months, to Feb. 18, 2022.

Disney isn’t abandoning the summer completely. “Mulan,” which been scheduled for March and already had its red carpet premiere, is set to open July 24. That release date, of course, is subject to movie theaters being reopened by then and the pandemic subsiding.

While Disney shifted nearly all of its big-budget movies, it’s going to send one to its streaming service. The Kenneth Branagh-directed science fiction adventure adaptation “Artemis Fowl” will go to Disney Plus instead of opening in theaters. The movie had originally been slate for release last August but had been rescheduled for May of this year.

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