The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 20 new deaths resulting from Covid-19 on Saturday, and 415 new positive cases. While the number of hospitalizations continues to decrease across the County as vaccines are doled out […]
AMC Theatres keeps facing pandemic-related headwinds, but CEO Adam Aron teased that a rebound was right around the corner, saying Thursday that “we finally can now say that we are looking at an increasingly favorable environment […]
It still remains to be seen if the HFPA’s planned changes are enough to quell threats of an HFPA boycott from Time’s Up, the coalition formed in the wake of #MeToo to combat workplace discrimination, and the entertainment industry’s PR firms […]
Three more Google employees’ firings should be added to a complaint accusing the company of illegally retaliating against activists, the federal labor board’s top prosecutor said in a letter, reversing determinations made under the Trump […]
Retired Sound Editor Kimberly Harris died on May 3 in Albuquerque New Mexico, according to her sister and her niece. She was 66. Harris had over 100 sound editing credits and won an Emmy for her work on 61*. She also won four awards for her work on Hacksaw Ridge. Her family will be holding a private […]
Joel Bender, who co-wrote and co-directed the 2014 documentary The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh and served as a film editor on The Amazing Race, has died. He was 72. Bender died in his sleep April 24 of natural causes in Los Angeles […]
“More than 30 former and current ICM employees said in interviews,” writes Wendy Lee in The Los Angeles Times, “that the company tolerated a hostile work environment, where women and people of color were subjected to harassment […]
Some 50,000 session musicians and background singers will be sharing more than $70 million in royalties collected by the AFM & SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund – the largest distribution in the fund’s history. […]
Players associations representing members of the MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL came out Tuesday in support of Protect the Right to Organize Act, a sweeping pro-union bill. The groups said in a joint statement that professional sports unions have […]
Los Angeles County officially qualified for the least-restrictive Yellow tier in the state’s Covid-19 reopening blueprint Tuesday. San Francisco and tiny Trinity County advanced from the Orange tier into Yellow. That’s about 11 million […]
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