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On Wednesday, Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer announced modifications to the health order her office has issued to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Those changes will permit the reopening of sectors that include film and TV production. The order will be issued tomorrow, with the effective date…

On Friday, Chair of the L.A. County Board of Supervisors Kartheryn Barger announced progress in the Economic Resiliency Task Force’s work on restarting film and TV production. She said the task force had “gone above and beyond” to try and get key sectors of the county’s economy restarted, singling out NBCUniversal CEO…

Longtime KCRW producer and host Matt Holzman died on Sunday after a battle with cancer. He was 56. Residents of L.A.’s Westside may recognize Holzman’s name from his most recent project on the NPR-affiliated radio station, The Document. He was also a force in the creation of shows such as The Business and Press Play…

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…

The Directors Guild of America’s national board voted unanimously today to approve a new three-year film and TV contract that includes substantial gains in streaming residuals, and to recommend its ratification to the guild's membership. "The future is what drives us, and that's what you see in this agreement," said DG…

Chinese film companies, film crews, actors and actresses were ordered to stop work by the China Alliance of Radio, Film and Television Production Committee and China Federation of Radio and Television Association as the tally of Coronavirus cases, and fatalities, continues to rise. Film and TV-industry employees have…

SAG-AFTRA is preparing for its next film and TV contract negotiations. The guild’s current pact doesn't expire until July 1, 2020. The 160,000-member union's board tonight approved the establishment of a wages & working conditions negotiating committee, and appointed SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris as its…

Blockchain, the technology that underlies digital currencies, is finding fresh application in Hollywood. Veteran entertainment industry marketer Amorette Jones joined with technologist Matej Boda to build a blockchain-based platform for the film industry. Their new venture, Treeti, would seek to harness the disruptive…

Refresh for updates Horror legend George A. Romero was remembered by Stephen King, Eli Roth and other colleagues today, with King even crowning Romero his “favorite collaborator.” Hostel director Eli Roth posted a series of tweets praising the Night of the Living Dead, saying a “direct line” could be drawn from that…

Kodak CEO Jeff Clarke nearly took the company out of the celluloid film production business about a year an a half ago — relenting when Warner Bros, Universal, Paramount, Disney, and Weinstein Co. committed to buy a set amount of film stock for several years. But after finding several additional buyers for the product…

“Nobody likes guards.” And these guys seem to get a little too deeply into their role playing in director Kyle Patrick Alvarez's drama based on Stanford professor Philip Zimbardo's infamous social experiment using college kids as prison guards and inmates. The movie that IFC Films acquired out of Sundance took the…

UPDATE: Add Martin Scorsese to the parade of directors applauding Kodak’s decision to continue producing film stock. He acknowledges that cameras shooting digital HD “are lighter, it's much easier to shoot at night, we have many more means at our disposal for altering and perfecting our images. And, the cameras are…