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Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE) has unveiled the executives selected for their fourth annual CAPE Leaders Fellowship, an industry-leading accelerator for rising junior media executives designed to propel them to the senior ranks. The fellowship is modeled after the CAPE New Writers Fellowship and…

EXCLUSIVE: Cultivate Entertainment, the Los Angeles and Oslo based management and production company, has launched a podcast division. The new wing of the company expands on Cultivate founders Sean Butler and Patrick Strøm's work executive producing the Showtime podcast series All The Smoke with Matt Barnes and…

AT&T CFO John Stephens said the layoffs currently affecting WarnerMedia should not be seen as a course correction after the May launch of HBO Max, but rather as a “refocusing” of the company. The executive discussed the reductions of about 600 WarnerMedia staffers and many other topics during an online appearance…

UPDATE, 10:56 PM: The tennis rackets and tensions have come down in the lawsuit over Will Smith’s film about the life and legacy of Serena Williams and Venus Williams’ father. Less than two months after TW3 Entertainment and Power Move Multi Media filed a breach of contract complaint against Smith’s loan-out company, R…

The WGA West told its members today that, as production begins to ramp up amid the coronavirus pandemic, writers should not sign liability waivers exempting employers from their responsibility to provide a safe workplace. "Your employer is required by law to provide a safe and healthy workplace both in the [writers]…

As wireless giants like AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile continue to push forward with rollouts of 5G technology, the U.S. government is making more wireless spectrum available for the effort. The White House and the Department of Defense said Monday that 100 megahertz of mid-band spectrum will be made auctioned off for…

Film and television production "is finally getting ready to start back up," IATSE Grips Local 80 business manager Thom Davis said in his latest update on the industry's efforts for a safe return to work. "The major lots have brought back people to get the departments ready for production,” he said, “and some of the…

UPDATE, 17:09 PM PT: A shooting that forced President Donald Trump to evacuate the White House briefing room took place at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, which is northwest of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. “A male suspect and a USSS officer were both transported to a local hospital. At no time during…

Los Angeles County director of public health Barbara Ferrer said Monday that there were 19 new deaths reported in the region from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total in the cities of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Pasadena to 4,996 since the outbreak began in March. The new total does not include delayed…

The American Federation of Musicians has endorsed Joe Biden for president, making it the second entertainment industry union to throw its support to the former vice president. IATSE endorsed Biden for president in May. The AFM said its endorsement, reached by a unanimous vote of its International Executive board, is…

California Governor Gavin Newsom held his first press conference in a week after it was revealed that his administration’s COVID-19 data collection database had been undercounting daily coronavirus case numbers for at least two weeks. On Sunday, the state’s Director of Public Health resigned, presumably over the data…

While the blows absorbed by mass-market U.S. exhibitors like AMC and Cinemark during COVID-19 have dominated the headlines, the damage appears to be even more severe on the specialty front. Reading International, a Culver City, CA-based arthouse and real estate firm, reported a 96% decline in second-quarter revenue on…