Reprinted from Deadline Hollywood by Tom Tapp on April 12, 2021.
Deadline broke the news that Will Smith and Antione Fuqua were pulling production of their Apple movie, Emancipation, out of Georgia. It’s the latest in a string of projects to retreat from the state after its recent passage of a regressive voting law.
To find out who’s staying (for now) and who’s going, click on the [link below] …
The American Federation of Musicians and Employers’ Pension Fund again has applied to the US Treasury Department for permission to reduce benefits for nearly half of its 51,521 participants. The Plan is currently in “critical and declining […]
The Sundance Film Festival physically staged its 2020 edition pre-pandemic. Now, newly installed festival director Tabitha Jackson has unveiled an online hub and US industry partnerships to carry off a novel coronavirus-era indie film […]
One of the social media companies competing for my ever-diminishing supply of attention sends me almost daily e-mails imploring me to log onto its site so that I can build an online simulacrum of my professional network. Those e-mails egg me on with a declarative catchphrase: “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” […]
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