Новости за 29.10.2020

As Twitter has been battered with criticism from President Donald Trump and Republicans for its content moderation practices, it still reported higher-than-expected revenue Thursday. The company’s total revenue grew to $936 million in the third quarter, with ad revenue growing 15% to $808 million. But that was mitigated somewhat by the company’s report of new […]

Tech giant Apple posted solid sales and profit for the fiscal fourth quarter ended in September, but CEO Tim Cook spooked investors a tad Thursday as the company declined to give guidance for the current first quarter. Cook apparently told CNBC that uncertainty around the spread of the pandemic “made it a tough environment to […]

“Just start shooting.” That was the advice the legendary A.C. Lyles delivered to young filmmakers when they asked him how he managed to produce five films every year. “Don’t waste your time waiting for some nameless executive to give you the green light,” Lyles told them. His approach was problematic, but in today’s stalled pandemic […]

EXCLUSIVE: The next projected layoffs stemming from NBCUniversal’s recent restructuring are starting next month, sources tell Deadline. November 12 is penciled in as the target date as company brass are eying mid-next month for the second wave of staff reductions to begin, we hear. The cuts will likely come in waves, one in mid-November and […]

After a week in which the average daily new coronavirus cases in Los Angeles County rose from around 1,000 to just a hair under 1,600, county health officials reported the region’s chances of reopening under California Governor Gavin Newsom’s guidance structure have dimmed further. Newsom’s tiered reopening structure uses three metrics to quantify a county’s […]

The Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery-Homicide Division, Special Assaults Section has arrested producer David Guillod. Detectives conducted a search and arrest warrant at Guillod’s Sherman Oaks residence. The arrest is the second serious set of charges facing Guillod, who was out on bail from a prior sexual assault allegation being prosecuted by the Santa Barbara County […]

UPDATE, 9:26 PM PT: Miles Taylor appeared on Chris Cuomo’s CNN show and explained why he lied to Anderson Cooper in August about being Anonymous, the Trump administration figure who wrote a scathing New York Times op ed and book. “Why should CNN keep you on the payroll after lying like that?” Cuomo asked Taylor, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock has opted not to proceed with a second season of Brave New World. UCP, the studio behind the sci-fi drama series, based on Aldous Huxley’s groundbreaking novel, will shop it to other outlets. “There will not be Season 2 of Brave New World on Peacock,” the streamer said in a statement to Deadline. […]

The original Studio City location for Jerry’s Famous Deli has announced it will close on Friday. The New York-style deli, located at 21853 Ventura Blvd., opened in 1973 as an outpost of Solley’s Delicatessen. It was purchased in 1996 by Jerry’s Famous Deli Inc., based in Studio City. The location, adjacent to a bowling alley, […]

The first global LGBTQ+ virtual cable TV network Revry is set to launch OML on October 29. OML on Revry is the first 24/7 live TV channel catering to queer womxn which includes those who identify as lesbian, bi, trans female, gender non-binary and queer. The OML on Revry channel highlights queer female or femxle […]

EXCLUSIVE:  I’m Sorry series creator Andrea Savage is set to direct the feature adaptation of Catya McMullen’s Off Broadway play Georgia Mertching Is Dead. The play, which was awarded the 2019-2020 Gassner Award by the Outer Critics Circle for best new play by a new playwright, follows three 30-year old friends –Gretchen, Emma and Whitney. […]

The IATSE legal department is blasting Senate Republicans for rushing through the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett while refusing to take action to help struggling workers during the coronavirus pandemic. “It apparently was far more important to rush through a Supreme Court nomination than it is to tend to the needs of […]

Joe Biden made a surprise appearance on Oprah Winfrey’s Zoom conversations aimed at empowering Black women to vote. “I want to know what is sitting well with your soul right now? What is strengthening you?” Winfrey asked Biden. “What is strengthening me now is my faith, my family and what I know about America,” Biden […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers winning their first World Series title since the Reagan era Tuesday was tempered by news that the team’s star third baseman Justin Turner tested positive for COVID-19 and was informed late in the deciding Game 6. He left the field before the eighth inning and was put in isolation but returned […]

Despite the firm response earlier this month from the National Association of Theatre Owners of California/Nevada to not reopen cinemas in San Francisco county given its concession ban, major circuits like Cinemark and AMC have taken an about face this week. Now opening a movie theater without the means of selling popcorn and soda is […]