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No, the local Arcadia, Louisiana police weren’t kicking off the annual Purge. But to citizens already jittery from the COVID-19 virus, the eerie sound of the familiar siren from the horror film frayed nerves.
The Arcadia police, in an effort to remind the locals of a 9 PM curfew, used an alarm that fans of horror…
Veteran film character actor Allen Garfield has died from COVID-19 complications. He was residing at the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hills, Calif. at the time of his death at age 80.
Garfield’s long resume includes such films as The Conversation, The Candidate, The Stunt Man and Nashville. Â
Actress Ronee Blakely…
John Prine, a revered, Grammy-winning folk-Americana singer-songwriter whose career spanned nearly a half-century, died today of complications from coronavirus. He was 73.
Prine — A member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame who last year was nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the first time — had been hospit…
The Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, has reduced union dues by 50% for all members for the second quarter of 2020. The move was taken after a unanimous vote of the guild's board of directors, meeting remotely, in response to the industry's COVID-19 shutdown.
"We are indeed facing an unprecedented crisis, certainly…
One day, cameras will roll again and film and TV production will resume in California, and when it does, Colleen Bell, executive director of the California Film Commission, says that the Commission stands ready to assist those who qualify for the state's $330 million-a-year film tax credit program.
In the meantime…
About a half hour into President Donald Trump’s latest coronavirus briefing on Tuesday, Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski sounded as if she had just about enough.
“Trump is flat out lying to the American people and right now our network and all networks should be cutting in to FactCheck him,” she wrote on Twitter…
Following Alamo Drafthouse with its virtual cinema offerings (including today’s announcement of the online offering of the 1981 cult film Roar, which they are billing as the “original Tiger King”) and AFI with its innovative daily Movie Club with introductions of various film classics from the likes of Steven…
In the wake of a S&P Global report that forecasted AMC Entertainment’s depletion of cash by mid-summer and its potential inability to re-open by June, media reports have already written the chain’s obituary.
But hold on one moment.
While distribution and rival exhibition sources wouldn’t be shocked if AMC files…
BREAKING: Peter Chernin has staked his Chernin Entertainment banner to a non-exclusive first look feature film producing deal with Netflix.
It brings another prolific producer to the streamer-focused company. Chernin Entertainment is coming off the Best Picture nominated James Mangold-directed hit Ford V Ferrari. In…
Two residents at the MPTF's skilled nursing facility in Woodland Hills have died of complications from COVID-19, and four staffers have tested positive for the virus.
The MPTF reported the first case of coronavirus on March 31, and six more on April 3. "We lost a resident yesterday and a second one today," said Bob…
Think the lines were long already? Disney executive chairman Bob Iger said the company may institute temperature check at its theme parks once they reopen. In an interview with Barron’s, he said he thinks that might make a traumatized population feel safer once people venture out again.
“One of the things that we're…
