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Film, TV, guilds and sports industry groups from NASCAR to the NFL on Wednesday sent a plea for action to lawmakers ahead of a key Capitol Hill committee meeting on pandemic insurance. The hearing set for Thursday morning, called “Insuring Against a Pandemic: Challenges and Solutions for Policyholders and Insurers,&#8221…

EXCLUSIVE: The Motion Picture Association has renewed the contract of chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin for another three years, starting on January 1. Rivkin joined the MPA in September 2017 as CEO and, after a transition period, also became chairman in January 2018. Before joining the trade organization, he was the…

Donald Trump was a showman whose election in 2016 was in part due to his fame from The Apprentice, but President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will come into office with much closer ties to the entertainment industry. The new administration will likely usher in a much more receptive vibe from…

UPDATED with additional signatories. The list of people in the creative community attaching their names to an urgent appeal to Congress on behalf of movie theaters has grown to 120 names. (See the full list below.) Talent initially joined with the Directors Guild of America, the National Association of Theatre Owners…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Ortman is departing the Motion Picture Association as its chief spokesperson after almost five years. In an email to staffers on Friday, Ortman wrote that in recent weeks he had been talking to Emily Lenzer, the MPA’s executive vice president of global communications, about a transition plan. His last…

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…

In the wake of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police, more than 700 actors, recording artists and entertainment and music industry organizations and their supporters have signed a letter urging swift passage of the Justice in Policing Act. The bill pending in the House of Representatives would ban chokeholds…

The office of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said today that "the major motion picture, television, and streaming companies plan to bring back and hire an estimated 40,000 production workers, who will be employed on an expected 75 production projects that will invest over $2 billion into the Georgia economy during the next…

Many of the media images at Lafayette Square Park in Washington, D.C. on Sunday night were of fires, vandalism and looting, and reporters being shoved and struck by rubber bullets. By the time that the White House turned off its exterior lights around midnight, the metaphors went flying and the impression may have…

UPDATED with WGA East: Entertainment industry union leaders are applauding Congress for today's passage of the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill, part of which expands key benefits for hundreds of thousands of industry workers who have lost jobs because of the coronavirus shutdown of film, TV and theater…

The Motion Picture Association has released its annual THEME report, summarizing last year’s showbiz spending and demographic data. And while it’s old news that the global box office reached a high of $42.2 billion and domestic of $11.4B in 2019, -4% from 2018, the trade org reported that for the first time ever…