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Nearly a year after the coronavirus pandemic first touched down in Los Angeles, Public Health officials confirmed more than 22,000 total Covid-19 deaths, bringing the county to yet another grim milestone. To date Los Angeles County has identified a total of 22,008 deaths and 1,201,866 cases. Saturday’s coronavirus…

New York City cinemas sprang back to life on Friday with moviegoers showing confidence in theater safety during Covid-19 and delight in being able to reconnect with a favorite form of entertainment. At 25% capacity, it's rough going but after a quiet start to the day many evening shows across the city were sold out…

Popcorn and all other concessions will not be sold at the IFC Center, at least for now. But films, actual films, will be projected on all five of its screens beginning Friday for the first time in nearly a year. “The room will be black — you won’t be on your phone!” Kajillionaire director Miranda July marveled in a…

This was no Borat bit. This was real. And it was disturbing. OK, not really, but Jimmy Kimmel Live! fans got a faux look at the seedy underbelly of black-market Covid vaccine slinging Thursday night as Sacha Baron Cohen did a virtual interview with the host of ABC’s late-night show. With Kimmel playing smirking…

Hollywood's unions and management's Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers are gearing up to renegotiate the terms of their return-to-work agreement, which expires on April 30. The companies and the unions have been making minor adjustments to those safety protocols as conditions evolved, but Covid-19…

Imax CEO Rich Gelfond believes a growing consensus around the long-fraught topic of theatrical movie release windows will boost the recovery of exhibition in 2021 and beyond. In addition to major studios endorsing exclusive windows of 30 to 45 days (half the historical period), either officially or by implication, the…

The British government has announced plans to extend by six months the £500M ($698M) Film & TV Production Restart Scheme, which is offering a substitute to coronavirus insurance for UK shoots. The insurance scheme is considered a world-leading intervention, which has helped give producers the confidence to return to…

Just minutes after California announced that seven counties — including San Francisco — were being allowed to reopen further due to falling Covid-19 numbers, Governor Gavin Newsom excoriated a Tuesday decision by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to lift that state’s mask mandate. Sharing an Associated Press story on…

Los Angeles could be next. On Tuesday, seven additional California counties were confirmed to be moving into the red tier of Governor Gavin Newsom’s Covid-19 reopening plan. Those counties had a total population — in 2019 — of over 3 million people, the most populous being Santa Clara. The other six are El Dorado…

"It's thrilling to be on a platform that can get the content to the people, so to speak," says Jonathan Tucker of returning to NBC with tonight's debut of Debris. "I think there's incredible opportunities now in network and in primetime," the Parenthood and Hannibal vet adds. Co-starring Riann Steele, the J.H…

UPDATED with latest: "The latest data suggest that these declines may be stalling, potentially leveling off," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said Friday. "It's still a very high number. We at CDC consider this a very concerning shift in the trajectory." On Monday, Walensky was…

Dangling $86.9 million in front of some big-ticket projects from Oscar winners and former Desperate Housewives, the California Film Commission was feeling particularly generous this morning. Joel and Ethan Coen's new Scarface, the Eva Longoria helmed Flamin Hot, Steven Soderbergh's HBO Max-set KIMI with Zoë Kravitz, wh…