Mr. Oyelowo has been quarantining with his wife, four children (ages 8 to 18) and 85-year-old father, who has an unusual obsession with leaf blowers. “There is a ferocity to it now,” Mr. Oyelowo said of his father’s battles with errant leaves. “And he’s broadened his repertoire to grass trimming.”

Imax hopes to come back with a ‘gust of wind.’

Disney is betting that theaters will be selling tickets and popping popcorn again by late July. Some analysts say August at the earliest. Or could it be June? At least in China?

Maybe?

Megan Colligan, the president of Imax Entertainment, would not publicly hazard a guess. But she said that Imax, which has 1,529 large-format commercial theaters around the world (up from about 250 a decade ago), has been strategizing about how to “create the strongest gust of wind possible” when reopening does happen. “There’s a lot of conversation about how to come back really strong — healthy, robust — and not have a lull,” she said.

Ms. Colligan, who came to Imax in 2018 from Paramount Pictures, where she ran marketing and distribution, has also been looking for ways to run her operation more efficiently when the pandemic passes. “Within this horribleness lies an opportunity to assess and improve your day-to-day business — all of those things you say you would fix if you only had the time,” she said. “What should we do more often? What should stop doing?”

“The surprising thing to me,” she continued, “is how long these days are. It’s phone call to phone call to phone call, and suddenly you’ve been working for 11 hours.” She often works while walking around her neighborhood in a face mask and hat. “It’s easier than trying to talk through a strategy while handling questions from my kids about what’s for dinner.”