Новости за 18.04.2020

It’s a brave new world for musicians, and even the biggest ones in the business have to figure out in a hurry how to navigate a path that’s suddenly much narrower. This week, Taylor Swift announced that she was canceling live appearance for the rest of the year. That included two big opening night concerts […]

Artists from across the music world are coming together today for a massive concert produced by Global Citizen, to raise money for COVID-19 relief. The concert titled “One World: Together at Home” is curated by Lady Gaga, and will stream live throughout the day on several different platforms. The digital stream started and 2 p.m. ET […]

Gene Deitch, whose film Munro won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1960, died on Thursday in his apartment in Prague, according to his Czech publisher. No cause of death was given. Deitch was also nominated for the same award twice in 1964 for Here’s Nudnik and How to Avoid Friendship. Among […]

Pandemic deaths declined in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo said in his daily briefing. But he cautioned, “Happy days are not here again.” The governor reported 540 deaths in the last 24 hours at his daily press briefing in Albany. “That is still an overwhelming number every day.” Still, the tally is down 110 deaths […]

The WGA and the AMPTP continue to move closer to a May 11 start date for negotiations for a new film and TV contract, and for an extension of their current pact from May 1 to June 30. The negotiations had been set to begin on March 23, but were delayed because of the industry’s […]

The CBS crime drama lineup again topped the Friday demo wars, but ABC was also a solid contender. At the eye network, MacGyver (which revealed the secret of Angus “Mac” MacGyver’s mother) and Magnum P.I. (which focused on a murder on a bus tour) both came in at a solid 0.7 and had the night’s […]

President Donald Trump has had a busy morning. He’s meeting with FEMA, leaders from Poland, South Korea and Bahrain, and revealed he spoke last night with the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, about various issues. There’s also a White House task force meeting on the coronavirus set for 4:30 PM ET today. But […]

NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, the only African American on the top circuit of that racing sector, believes fellow driver Kyle Larson should be forgiven for uttering a racial slur in an online competition. Wallace issued a statement Friday saying Larson should get a second chance. Larson was fired from his racing team after the incident […]

Scientists from Stanford University have developed an antibody test for coronavirus, and the results indicate that more people may have contracted the disease than previously believed. A report from Stanford suggests as many as four percent of Californians may have already been infected with coronavirus, judging from the antibodies present in their system. However, antibody […]

Drew Carey made a stunning admission Friday during the remote The Talk@Home: He forgives the man who murdered his ex-fiancée, Amie Harwick. “After Amie’s murder, I took a week off,” Carey related. “Really, I couldn’t function and my first day back (to his job hosting The Price is Right) we taped the high school show for […]

Bill Maher, clad in his customary suit and tie but hosting HBO’s Real Time from his expansive back yard instead of the studio, ripped media coverage of COVID-19 as “panic porn,” warning it could get President Donald Trump re-elected. “News sources have to rein it in,” he said in the show’s closing monologue. “Everyone knows […]

Ranjit Chowdhry, a Bollywood actor who crossed over to the US mainstream, died Wednesday at a Mumbai hospital. He was 64-years-old and suffered a ruptured ulcer that required emergency surgery, according to reports. Chowdhry had returned to India for some dental work, but then was trapped there by the pandemic travel shutdown. Chowdhry first starred […]

The WGA today filed its opposition to the Big 3 talent agency’s motion to temporarily stay the discovering of certain documents sought by the guild, telling a federal judge that such a stay would “seriously prejudice the guilds’ ability to defend and prosecute this case.” The two sides have been locked in a contentious legal […]

Social distancing and sheltering in place has unleashed a wave of creativity among the confined. CBS is spotlighting it in a one-hour special, #Homevideos: A Global Phenomenon, that will be broadcast in May and hosted by Cedric the Entertainer. The show features viral home video moments, featuring the full spectrum of the best videos during our […]

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn’t about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that […]

The White House’s latest coronavirus briefing was geared largely to the issue of testing, as substantial issues remain as to whether states have the necessary supplies to scale up screenings on a large scale basis. But on the top of the minds of reporters in the room were a series of President Donald Trump’s tweets […]

The WGA told its members this evening that the COVID-19 crisis “has increased our resolve to advance the bargaining goals” it intends to pursue with management’s AMPTP for a new film and TV contract. In a communique with members, the guild’s negotiating committee noted, however, “We have not yet heard back from the AMPTP about […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sports fans are in a pandemic moment when we have no choice but to watch old game replays, videogame tournaments with NBA player/gamers, even a Dodgeball callback resurrection of ESPN’s The Ocho, a daylong marathon of obscure sports including cherry pit spitting, slippery stairs, stone skipping and cup stacking contests that seem funny but […]

EXCLUSIVE: Seven residents at the Actors Fund Home in New Jersey have died from COVID-19 and 11 others have tested positive for the virus, according to officials at the entertainment industry retirement home. With 116 residents, the home in Englewood, NJ, sits in one of the nation’s hotspots for the coronavirus. The first coronavirus-related death […]

Deadline has confirmed that Universal is developing a feature take on Mark Watson and Oliver Harud’s 2015 graphic novel Dan and Sam from Picador publishing. Japanese director Hikari, who helmed the Berlin Film Festival Audience Award winner 37 Seconds, will direct. The drama, which follows a young Japanese woman who suffers from cerebral palsy, was acquired by […]

Media companies continue to look for ways to cut cots amid a deepening health and economic crisis due the coronavirus pandemic and a Hollywood production shutdown that is entering its second month. ViacomCBS this week implemented one such measure, eliminating contract positions. “Like many businesses, COVID-19 has had an unprecedented effect on our industry,” a […]