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As Hollywood and major league sports’ restarting looks to be stymied by soaring coronavirus cases, some of the biggest players in the arena want Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi to change the rules of the game in their favor. "Whether it be professional and collegiate sporting events, the next must-see film, a…

It's not that often that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the GOP high command get a direct request from Hollywood, but the chaos, losses and wounds of the coronavirus pandemic have created a new normal. Looking for some significant measures to help the hobbled multi-billion-dollar entertainment industry…

EXCLUSIVE: UPDATE, 12:45 PM: Looks like both Randall Miller and the family of Sarah Jones will have to wait a while longer to discover if the Midnight Rider director could be going back to jail or not. A hearing (exclusively revealed by Deadline last week) on the possible probation violation by the once again working…

UPDATED with more details: Hollywood's unions released their detailed protocols today for the safe reopening of the film and TV industry – a joint effort by the DGA, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE and the Teamsters. The 36-page report implements the more general guidelines set forth in a White Paper on reopening that was issued by…

Trustees of the DGA-Producer Pension and Health Plans have approved another three months of premium-free COBRA for participants whose earned active health coverage is set to end on September 30. The trustees said the move was made in recognition of "the continued shutdown of production since mid-March due to the…

EXCLUSIVE: One week after Georgia prosecutors sought a new arrest warrant for Midnight Rider director Randall Miller over probation violations stemming from the 2014 on-set death of Sarah Jones, the filmmaker's lawyers are fighting back to stop potential return to jail for their client. “The defense urges the court to…

The Hollywood white paper on the safe return to work, issued Monday by the Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee Task Force, was a good start, but there's still a lot of work to be done before it can be implemented. Union leaders say that the proposals (read them here), which have been submitted to…

UPDATED with more reactions: A 22-page industry white paper developed by the Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee Task Force establishing protocols for a safe return to work "in an environment that minimizes the risk of contracting or spreading COVID-19″ was submitted to the governors of Los Angeles and New…

Lots of testing, protective gear, social distancing and coronavirus safety officers are at the heart of recommendations from Disney, Netflix, CBS and other top studios, Hollywood's leading guilds and producers to get the industry restarted from the pandemic that shut down production in March. “The Industry-Wide…

UPDATED with DGA statement: WGA West president David A. Goodman said tonight that the guild "stands with those who peacefully protest the racist, extrajudicial murders of George Floyd and other Black people." Noting that "police fired rubber bullets at peaceful demonstrators" yesterday near the guild's offices in Los…

EXCLUSIVE: The parents of Sarah Jones are calling on the DGA to kick Randall Miller out of the guild after learning that he recently directed a new movie, Higher Grounds, in Serbia and Colombia last summer — this despite the special conditions of his probation after he spent a year in jail for the death of their…

EXCLUSIVE: Due to ambiguity in probation documents, disgraced Midnight Rider director Randall Miller is back behind the camera and making movies – despite an involuntarily manslaughter guilty plea that many believed forbid such work for up to decade. Deadline has learned that Miller directed the comedy Higher Grounds…