Новости за 29.04.2020

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed 56 new deaths and 1,541 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday. That’s nearly 1,000 more new infections than were announced on Tuesday. L.A. County Director of Public Health Dr. Barbara Ferrer attributed this jump to new testing in institutional settings and also a lag in test […]

Discovery Inc. CEO David Zaslav saw his total compensation fall last year to $46 million compared with $129 million in 2018, when a large option grant related to a renewal of his contract made him the most highly compensated chief executive in the nation. His package last year included a base salary of $3 million; […]

Directors Anthony and Joe Russo climbed the ladder again in Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament, winning for a second year in a row thanks to the all-time. record-breaking. $2.79 billion-grossing Avengers: Endgame, which netted close to a $900 million profit for Walt Disney Studios after all theatrical rentals, global home entertainment and TV profits. The […]

EXCLUSIVE: Another top Comedy Central executive is exiting in the fallout from the ViacomCBS merger. Sarah Babineau, Head of Comedy Central Content & Creative Enterprises, will be departing the company at the end of the year. The news comes two months after she was promoted to the high-level creative post within ViacomCBS’ Entertainment & Youth […]

Cast members from the 1990s prime time soap Melrose Place – Josie Bissett, Thomas Calabro, Marcia Cross, Laura Leighton, Heather Locklear, Doug Savant, Grant Show, Andrew Shue, Courtney Thorne-Smith and Daphne Zuniga – have reunited for the Stars in the House benefit series for The Actors Fund. Hosted by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley, the […]

Trevor Noah wasted no time on laying into government waste on Tuesday’s The Daily Social Distancing Show. Noah used his monologue to ridicule the federal Paycheck Protection Program. Meant to help small businesses through the pandemic, the program’s $342 billion mysteriously disappeared “faster than Rudy Giuliani in direct sunlight,” according to Noah. That’s a strange […]

Roy Horn, who thrilled Las Vegas crowd as part of the big-cat-trainers act Seigfried & Roy until a tiger attack ended his career in 2003, is the latest celebrity to have tested positive for coronavirus. In a statement to ABC News, Horn’s publicist said: “We can confirm that Roy Horn has tested positive for the virus […]

2nd Update, 8:05PM: Following the National Association of Theatre Owners’ earlier statement today deflating NBCUniversal’s $95M PVOD victory with Trolls World Tour in the Wall Street Journal, the exhibition organization has issued another public statement tonight after Uni accused them of being in cahoots with AMC over the chain’s refusal to play Uni films. Earlier […]

Universal has responded to AMC boss Adam Aron’s note tonight to Universal Studios Chairman Donna Langley in which he told the studio that the chain won’t be playing their titles at their global venues. Essentially Uni says they “absolutely believe in the theatrical experience and made no statement to the contrary.” But, added Universal, “As […]

The latest injection of money into coronavirus small-business relief will be a lifeline for many businesses — but local newspapers, radio and TV stations worry that it won’t be enough of a rescue. As some publications and stations have seen spikes in readership or viewership during the crisis, they also are facing a dire drop […]

Nurse by day, actress by night — if there were a movie or TV show about Jennifer Stone’s life that would be the tagline. For four seasons, Stone starred in the Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly Place as the eccentric and fashionable Harper Finkle, the best friend of Selena Gomez’s Alex Russo. The show […]

It’s clear there will be major changes at Central Florida’s major theme parks, including Disney World and Universal Orlando, when they begin to reopen as coronavirus restrictions ease. The Orange County Economic Task Force issued some preliminary guidelines Tuesday as the state considers a phased approach to reopening the parks. All are initial suggestions only, […]

NBC’s hit athletic competition series The Titan Games is returning for its second season on Monday, May 25, the network said today. Hosted and executive produced by Dwayne Johnson, The Titan Games will premiere with a two-hour episode beginning at 8 PM ET/PT on May 25. Beginning June 1, the series will air weekly in […]

NGL Collective (New Generation Latinos), a media company founded by actor John Leguizamo and David Chitel, has launched #UnidosTogether, a new initiative that will utilize various cross-platform brands and celebrities in order to unite, empower and entertain diverse communities with content while they shelter-in-place during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the #UnidosTogether site, audiences will have […]

AMC boss Adam Aron has just fired off a letter to Universal Studios Chairman Donna Langley in response to NBC Universal CEO Jeff Shell’s statements in the Wall Street Journal this morning about the $95M PVOD success of Trolls World Tour.  As Aron explains to Langley in the letter (read it below), he initially got it: […]

“We are in Week 7 of the global pandemic and we are looking at everything in front of us, but that Oscar show is 10 months away from us now, and we can’t predict what is happening between now and February 28th,” Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Dawn Hudson said when I […]