The Art Directors Guild has released an 11-page document outlining their set of best practice protocols for film and TV productions operating during the COVID-19 pandemic. The recommendations are intended to address the day to day experience of ADG members and designed to supplement the industry-wide white paper testing and department-specific protocols. ADG President Nelson
Month: July 2020
When “The Umbrella Academy” drops its second season on Netflix on July 31, it won’t find the Hargreeves as a united front fighting to stop the apocalypse — at least not right away. Instead, it’ll find the siblings thrown six decades back in time, separated and, in some cases, building their own lives apart from
“A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad’s an Alcoholic” casts a damning eye on the pernicious role alcohol plays in the working careers and social lives of Japanese men. Narrated by the innermost thoughts of a daughter during the 25 years she spends watching her father drink himself to death, Kenji Katagari’s second feature cleverly
VenuesNow, a top trade publication for the sports and entertainment facility industry, has announced this year’s Women of Influence Award winners. Given to 10 women each year – nine voted on by subscribers and one chosen by VenuesNow editors – the award honors their leadership and positive impact on the industry. The Women of Influence
O-T Fagbenle’s six-episode comedy series “Maxxx” makes quite a statement when it says, “The only way for a Black man to stay safe is to become famous.” It is quick and witty in the moment of the show about a former boy band member trying to reclaim fame, which Fagbenle wrote two years ago and
“The Walking Dead” officially will not debut Season 11 this October due to the ongoing production shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Series showrunner Angela Kang made the announcement Friday during the show’s Comic-Con@Home panel. This will mark the first time the show has failed to air a new season in October since it debuted
Apple’s “Central Park” animated series is feeling more like a “Hamilton” reunion by the second. Exactly a month after Kristen Bell announced she was stepping away from voicing the mixed-race character Molly, Apple has found her replacement in the form of “Hamilton” alumna and “Umbrella Academy” star Emmy Raver-Lampman. She will become the show’s third
“The Kissing Booth 2” sees the return of Joey King as Elle. Now a high school senior, she’s caught in a love triangle with the new guy at her school, Marco (Taylor Zakhar Perez), and her longtime boyfriend, Noah (Jacob Elordi), who’s across the country at Harvard. King said the cast wasn’t originally planning on
Well, it’s official: Thanks to the coronavirus — and the kind of real-world disaster-movie mayhem that even Hollywood couldn’t invent — summer movie season is canceled. Now that “Tenet” and “Mulan” have both scrapped their summer U.S. theatrical release plans, there’s nothing even remotely resembling a blockbuster on the horizon. The good news — and
As New York makes progress on its laborious reopening plan, the city’s entertainment chief is hoping to see content production begin to return in a significant way by September. Anne del Castillo, commissioner of the powerful Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, said she expects to see TV productions return to soundstages and studio facilities
Not surprisingly, Taylor Swift’s excellent surprise album has huffed up most of the oxygen on this mid-summer day — and Kanye West’s album will probably do the same, whenever he actually finishes it — but that’s all we’re going to say about them because this week saw an absolute avalanche of great new songs —
George Clooney is in talks with Amazon Studios to direct and produce a feature film version of J.R. Moehringer’s coming-of-age story “The Tender Bar: A Memoir.” Clooney and his producing partner Grant Heslov would produce through their Smokehouse Pictures banner along with Ted Hope. William Monahan, who won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Harry Clein, a co-founder of PR Agencies Clein + Feldman and Clein + White, died June 18 in Atlanta, Ga. He was 82. The Hollywood publicist suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD). His agencies represented numerous successful projects, from “Steel Magnolias” and “Heathers” to “Dazed and Confused.” His first project at Clein + Feldman,
Warner Bros. is reaching out to international exhibitors about a possible late August launch for Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet.” If it takes place, it would mean that the twisty spy thriller, which was expected to be among the highest-grossing summer releases, will have some sort of popcorn season debut. Exhibitors in the U.K., France and Spain
The Go-Gos’ lips are very unsealed, thankfully, in the documentary named after the band that debuts on Showtime July 31. It’ll be all the reunion that anyone gets for now: a brief summer tour that was announced when the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January is, of course, on hold until Go-Go
Apple has acquired rights to Werner Herzog’s astronomy documentary “Fireball” for its Apple Original film slate and will premiere the film on Apple TV Plus in more than 100 territories. Herzog collaborated with British professor Clive Oppenheimer on the project. The duo teamed on the Academy Award-nominated Antarctic documentary “Encounters at the End of the
After nearly six years sitting in mothballs, the G4 video-game TV network is coming back — with some kind of relaunch next year by Comcast. On Friday, the Twitter accounts of G4TV and G4’s Attack of the Show! and X-Play, two popular shows on the network, both posted the same cryptic teaser video, captioned with
Henry Golding has parted ways with Paradigm Talent Agency, insiders familiar with his move told Variety. The actor, producer and former travel host has signed with CAA. He continues to work with manager Megan Silverman and Rick Genow at Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher. Golding was a banner client of Paradigm’s Nick LoPiccolo. He broke out
There’s a moment in Mary Wharton’s “Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President” that looks downright surreal — at least, in light of the bombs-away culture-war politics that have come to rule our own era. It’s Jan. 20, 1977, the night of Carter’s Inaugural Gala, and introducing the festivities is that favorite son of progressive liberal
Fans won’t be able to watch NBA games court-side thanks to the coronavirus, but the league hopes to fill their absence with everything from the sounds of sneaker squeaks to the sight of fans beaming on the sidelines on big screens thanks to partnerships with Anheuser-Busch InBev and Microsoft. More than 300 fans will be
Demi Moore hopes her new erotic podcast “Dirty Diana” will help teach people about sex. In the series, created by Shana Feste, Moore plays a woman whose marriage is falling apart as she navigates her finance career and secret life as the host of a website that features recordings of women describing their sexual fantasies.
Netflix has renewed young adult series “Outer Banks” for Season 2. Created by Jonas Pate, Josh Pate, and Shannon Burke, the show stars Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline, Madison Bailey, Jonathan Daviss, Rudy Pankow, Austin North, Drew Starkey, Deion Smith, and Charles Esten. All will reprise their roles in the series, which premiered on April 15
“Blindspot” aired the final episode of its impressive five-season run last night to unspectacular numbers. Fox’s “Celebrity Watch Party” also failed it impress with its finale. The last ever edition of “Blindspot” scored a 0.3 rating among adults 18-49, which does represent a slight tick up from the penultimate episode. However, only 1.7 million viewers
Ciné-Real, the U.K.’s remaining 16mm film club, is launching a podcast as part of Keep Film Alive, a global campaign supported by stalwarts like Quentin Tarantino and J.J. Abrams. The club, which is now an institution in London, was founded in 2011 by award-winning filmmaker Liam Saint-Pierre (“The Last Storm”) and veteran projectionist Umit Mesut.
In about a month, director Kevin Macdonald will sit down to review around 500 hours of the best video footage submitted by YouTube users from around the world and then make a movie from the contributions — all captured on one day: Saturday, July 25, 2020. The film project, “Life in a Day 2020,” comes
Taylor Swift‘s taken out 2 birds with one surprise stone — her album, “Folklore,” beat her nemesis, Kanye West, to market, and revealed the top secret name of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds‘ third child … or so it seems. So, the thing Swifties are really latching on to with her 8th studio album, which
Sam Mendes’ Theatre Arts Fund has raised £1.6 million ($2 million) to support out-of-work theater professionals across the U.K. by offering quick and easy access to a £1000 ($1,276) grant. Although the fund has supported 1,600 freelancers so far, it’s a far cry from the nearly 4,000 applications it received in just one week. Launched
Erik Barmack, the former Netflix executive who oversaw its game-changing drive into production around the world is teaming with renowned French African artist Nicholle Kobi on “Queens,” a high-concept, stylish animated series about six extraordinary real-life African queens. Set up at Barmack’s L.A.-based Wild Sheep Content, the high-concept “Queens” is an attempt to reclaim for
Films used to world premiere at a festival, then open theatrically and then on pay TV. If they were from Spain, their first natural market would be France. No more. Filmin, the high-flying upscale Spanish arthouse SVOD platform, will release on Friday the period shipwreck drama “Island of Lies,” a Spanish-Argentine co-production that marks the
Breaking News Jets superstar Jamal Adams just UNLOADED on his head coach … saying Adam Gase is NOT a leader — and it all appears to be yet another attempt by the DB to get traded from the team. Adams took aim at Gase in an interview with the NY Daily News this week …
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