Новости за 21.03.2020

A Major Disaster Declaration has been issued for New York by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The move will unlock access to aid from its Disaster Relief Fund, a critical move as new confirmed coronavirus cases soar in the state. Medical supplies remain scarce in New York, according to Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer. Having […]

AMC has postponed the launch of its zombie spinoff series The Walking Dead: Beyond World. Originally slated to debut April 12, the new drama will now launch “later this year,” AMC announced Friday on The Walking Dead‘s Twitter account. The Walking Dead: Beyond World joins FX’s Season 4 of Fargo, whose April premiere also was recently […]

Sports networks grappling with widespread cancellations and postponements of not just games but entire seasons used this past week to frenetically prep schedules leaning heavily on new or expanded studio talk shows, rebroadcasts of earlier matchups and library content, if they’re lucky enough to have to have it. Networks and leagues said they’re deep in […]

Director Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk, Interstellar, and several Batman films) has asked the government to remember the nation’s movie theaters and their workers in any plans for financial relief in the wake of coronavirus shutdowns. Writing in The Washington Post, Nolan reminded his readers that “When people think about movies, their minds first go to the […]

Actors aren’t working, but their union is, SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris said in video message to her members released tonight. “We are living in challenging and uncertain times – unlike anything we’ve ever experienced,” she said in the video (watch it above). “And as the world is dealing with this unbelievable outbreak, I want you […]

Vice President Mike Pence, the point person for the national response to COVID-19, has an aide who has tested positive for the coronavirus. Pence did not work closely with the person, his press secretary Katie Miller said Friday. “‪This evening we were notified that a member of the Office of the Vice President tested positive […]

Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Laura Nix was supposed to board a flight to Copenhagen today, en route to the CPH:DOX festival to pitch her latest project. But the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly forced that event to shift online only, one of countless ways the coronavirus emergency is impacting the documentary space. Nix tells Deadline, “I was working […]

Yesterday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio revealed that the city will run out of medical supplies in between two and three weeks if infections continue at the current rate. Today, that rate further accelerated, prompting the Mayor to call NYC “the epicenter of this crisis” with 5,151 confirmed infections as of Friday, about […]

The XFL has tossed in the towel on its first season, officially declaring that there’s no hope of bringing back games this year. “The COVID-19 pandemic, and the most recent local and state regulations, have left the XFL no choice but to officially cancel the remainder of the 2020 season,” the league said in a […]

The Broadway League, representing producers, theatre owners and general managers, has reached an agreement with Broadway unions for emergency relief during the COVID-19 shutdown. The agreement will provide Broadway employees with pay and health insurance during the current suspension of all Broadway shows. The financial relief includes basic wage supplements to affected workers and additional […]

A staff member of Fox Business Channel tested positive for the coronavirus. The employee alerted the network on Friday of the results. In a memo to employees, Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott and president Jay Wallace said that the staffer last worked on March 13 in the building at 1211 Avenue of the Americas. […]

More than 240 UK workers who were let go this week by exhibition giant Cineworld have written to group CEO Mooky Greidinger calling for the exhibitor to rethink this week’s mass redundancies in response to the coronavirus. Scroll down for the letter in full. The workers “condemn” Cineworld’s decision to cut a vast number of […]