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The Pac-12 has set a 10-game, conference-only fall schedule for football, including moving the USC-UCLA rivalry game to the first weekend of play in late September instead of its traditional closing weekend. The Pac-12 schedule will begin on Saturday, Sept. 26, the conference announced Friday. Besides USC-UCLA, the…

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television's Professional Programs has revealed winners of its 2020 Feature Screenplay, Television Pilot and Acting for the Camera Pitch competitions. The winners, who were among the 221 students who completed the yearlong Screenwriting, Writing for Television Professional and…

EXCLUSIVE: As more and more industry events shutter due to fears of the expanding coronavirus, UCLA’s 44th annual Entertainment Symposium has now been postponed too. With the now ironically "It’s the End of the World as We Know It – And We Feel Fine" entitled keynote from WarnerMedia's direct-to-consumer boss Bob…

The UCLA administration has scrapped a plan to use facial recognition technology on campus after students and outside groups protested. A report by VICE News said UCLA was planning on implementing the system before complaints surfaced. Student groups said earlier this month that a  "National Day of Action" would be…

During the From Day One conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Steve Koepp, co-founder of the conference spoke to Darnell Hunt, UCLA dean and professor who authors their annual Hollywood Diversity Report. Hunt talked about how the newly established UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute researches kindness and how it…

UPDATED with statement from Local 3299: An ongoing dispute between UCLA and the main labor union repping University of California employees has forced the Democratic National Committee to move its scheduled December debate from the university’s Royce Hall. A new venue has not yet been selected. The debate, hosted by PB…

The 17-year tenure of UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero will end in June, as the UC Regents approved a six-month extension of his contract, which was set to expire in December. Guerrero’s decision means the two major universities in Los Angeles are looking for athletic directors. Earlier this month, the University…

WGA West presidential candidate Phyllis Nagy has gotten out in front a series of anonymous critics of her teaching methods and track record as head of the UCLA screenwriting program. Following inquiries from Deadline that were fueled by interviews with a dozen former students and faculty members, Nagy has addressed…

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s Class of 2019 is set for a Bond hearing this week: 007 alum Pierce Brosnan will deliver its 72nd annual commencement address Friday at Royce Hall. The university also will bestow its Distinguished Alumni Award upon Star Trek original George Takei (Class of ’60…

Star Wars: Episode VII cinematographer Dan Mindel has been named the 2019 Kodak Cinematographer-in-Residence at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Mindel has worked in the industry for more than 25 years, working with many of the industry's most acclaimed directors including Ridley Scott, Tony Scott and…

Thanks to Lionsgate, students at Howard University in D.C. are getting a chance to learn the entertainment business through paid internship programs. Lionsgate is the first entertainment company to join forces with Howard University to start the educational institute’s program that has allows six to 12 students to…

As The Big Bang Theory winds down to its series finale, the Chuck Lorre Family Foundation has doubled its support of the show’s namesake UCLA scholarship. The Big Bang Theory Scholarship Endowment now will fund 10 needy students per year after backing five annually since its 2015 founding. The scholarship originally…