Новости за 27.10.2020

Netflix unpacked a swath of news during its Netflix Anime Festival 2020 livestream Tuesday out of Japan, setting five new anime projects and providing updates on 11 other series in various stages of production at the streamer’s bustling Tokyo headquarters. The new original projects — continuation Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure, manga-based Thermae Romae Novae, High-Rise […]

Canadian broadcast journalist Marci Ien will join Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government. Ien, who ran for the Liberal Party in Toronto Centre, won Monday night and will fill former Finance minister Bill Monreau’s seat, CTV News reports. The long-time broadcast television reporter beat out Annamie Paul, Benjamin Gauri Sharma, Brian Chung and Dwayne Cappelletti among […]

Just days after the United States reached an all-time high in new coronavirus cases with more than 80,000 new cases on Friday, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said that the members of the Trump administration “are not going to control the pandemic.” “We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, […]

On the same day Los Angeles County recorded its 300,000th coronavirus case and its 7,000th COVID-19 death, County Health Officer Muntu Davis issued a health advisory for private gatherings and public celebrations. Citing the high risk of COVID-19 infection at such events given the increasing rate of COVID-19 community transmission, Davis said that “it is […]

Ava DuVernay will headline a fundraiser for Cory Booker’s Senate reelection campaign on Wednesday. Booker’s re-election is widely predicted, as he faces Rik Mehta, a biotech entrepreneur. But the New Jersey incumbent has long ties to the entertainment industry that extend to his days as the mayor of Newark. Booker and DuVernay both have become […]

UPDATE, 6:36 PM PT: Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice at another White House ceremony amid the pandemic. Unlike her introduction ceremony in September, which became a “super-spreader event, in the words of Dr. Anthony Fauci, most of the attendees in the crowd on the South Lawn wore masks and […]

UPDATED on Monday at 7 p.m.: As of Monday evening, two wind-driven fires that sparked earlier in the day in Orange County had nearly doubled in size. The Silverado Fire, which started near the canyon of the same name had blown up from 4,000 acres midday to 7,200 acres by nightfall. There were 500 firefighters […]

Chicago P.D. star Jason Beghe said that following the murder of George Floyd and the nationwide Black Lives Matter movement, the NBC series will touch on issues of police brutality and racism in the upcoming season. “I think we feel a certain sense of responsibility to address these issues, which is fun and challenging. Thankfully […]

The stars of Northern Exposure — Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Barry Corbin, Cynthia Geary and John Corbett — reunited to kick off this week’s Vulture Festival. During the panel Monday, the cast members reminisced about their time starring in the CBS series, which celebrated its 30th anniversary this year, though there was no mention of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Former Two and a Half Men executive producer/co-showrunner Jim Patterson is returning to the Chuck Lorre fold. He has joined Warner Bros TV/Chuck Lorre Prods’ multi-camera CBS comedy series B Positive as executive producer and co-showrunner alongside creator Marco Pennette. Patterson spent a decade working for Lorre, WBTV and CBS on the long-running multi-camera […]

Financier Library Pictures International and Korean studio CJ Entertainment, producer of the multi-Oscar winner Parasite, have entered into a multi-year, multi-picture slate co-financing deal covering local-language film productions in Indonesia, Vietnam and Turkey. Under terms of the deal, Library will fund up to 50% of the budget of CJ Entertainment-led local-language productions in each of […]

Cheryl Burke suffered a head injury last night during rehearsals for Dancing With the Stars on ABC, though she intends to appear on tonight’s episode of the competition series. “Yesterday, I took a hard fall while rehearsing for #VillainsNight,” Burke tweeted Monday. “It’s one of those things that can happen in a split second.” The […]