Новости за 14.05.2021

“At businesses, whether indoors or outdoors, masks are still required to be worn,” said Los Angeles Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer Thursday afternoon. Just minutes before, President Joe Biden delivered a different message. “I want to be clear about what the CDC is saying and what the CDC is not saying,” Biden said during a […]

Disney CEO Bob Chapek said today’s decision by the Centers from Disease Control to dramatically adjust its guidance on masks for fully vaccinated adults is “very big news for us.” Speaking during the media giant’s quarterly earnings call with analysts, Chapek hailed the updated scientific view that vaccinated people can abandon masks in most indoor […]

EXCLUSIVE: HBO has scrapped this week’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher after the comedian tested positive for Covid-19. Maher, who is vaccinated and asymptomatic, tested positive during the premium cable network’s weekly PCR testing ahead of the show. It is a blow for the late-night show, which was set to entertain astrophysicist and […]

NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, the data guru who became one of the breakout stars of election night coverage last year, will develop a game show for NBCUniversal’s television and streaming group, and will officially join NBC Sports with plans for appearances during Olympics coverage and Super Bowl LVI. The game show, which […]

The National Association of Theatre Owners, the Motion Picture Association, studios and industry figures are teaming for “The Big Screen Is Back,” a conference to be held on May 19 at the AMC Century City 15 in Century City, which will rally the comeback of exhibition as it reopens from the pandemic and present studios […]

The CW Network is becoming a full seven-day-a-week broadcast network. The net, co-owned by WarnerMedia and ViacomCBS, is expanding its primetime schedule to include Saturday next season. This will mark the first time even that the CW has programmed seven nights a week over its entire 27-year history, going back predecessors the WB and UPN. […]

Continuing a worrisome trend, the New York Yankees played shortstop Gleyber Torres on the Covid-19 injured list today. The fully-vaccinated player thus becomes the eighth team member to contract the coronavirus after being fully vacccinated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention only reports patients that have been hospitalized or died in so-called “breakthrough” cases […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lucy Freyer has joined the cast of Brit McAdams’ Paint, starring Owen Wilson, Michaela Watkins, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ciara Renée, Lusia Strus and Stephen Root. The comedic feature centers on Carl Nargle (Wilson), who has hosted Vermont’s #1 painting show for nearly three decades. While Carl’s signature whisper has long kept viewers from Pittsfield to St. […]

The Recording Academy’s Board of Trustees has officially appointed Harvey Mason Jr. as the Academy’s President/CEO, effective June 1. Mason had been in the position on an unpaid, interim basis since January 2020. He was named to the post when former president Deborah Dugan was put on administrative leave 10 days before the 2020 Grammy […]

“We believe in the power of live sports,” Disney CEO Bob Chapek said Thursday in announcing an expansion of the brand’s footprint on various fields. Disney said it has renewed its current deal with Major League Baseball and bulked up even more with a new agreement with Spain’s LaLiga soccer league, the exec said on […]

UPDATED with stock surge. Shares in AMC Entertainment surged 24% to close at $12.77 as another wave of retail investors bought into the top theater circuit, The hashtag #AMCSqueeze trended on Twitter. Threads on Reddit pulsed with excitement about the exhibitors’ shares. Some hedge funds and other financial institutions have “shorted” AMC stock, meaning they […]