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Applications to film on-location in Los Angeles surged 43.1% in February over January, according to FilmLA, the city and county film permit office. A late-month surge in production made last month the third-busiest FilmLA has recorded since June, when production tentatively resumed after the Covid-19 shutdown, though…

By December of 2020, more than 120 million people streamed YouTube and YouTube TV on their TV screens, up 20% from the 100 million who did so in March. That jump and other insights were highlighted in a pair of blog posts by the company. One was written by Neal Mohan, YouTube’s product chief and a keynote speaker…

Lester Holt, along with Savannah Guthrie, will anchor an NBC News special on Thursday, Covid One Year Later: Life After Lockdown, marking the one-year anniversary of the start of the Covid-19 lockdowns and a full crisis that has touched all parts of society. Around this time last March, Holt told Deadline that the coro…

Facing an almost certain recall and harsh criticism over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and vaccination rollout, California Gov. Gavin Newsom was in full campaign mode tonight in his third annual State of the State speech. “The state of our state remains determined,” the former San Francisco mayor said from…

Prodigal Son star Michael Sheen has revealed that he’s recovering from Covid. Sheen shared the news Monday on Twitter, saying he’d been battling the virus for the last few weeks. “It's been very difficult & quite scary,” he wrote. He also gave an International Women's Day shout-out to "all the incredible women" in his…

UPDATE: On Sunday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released its latest data on coronavirus cases, reporting 22 new deaths and 1,313 new positive cases of confirmed Covid-19 in L.A. County. The lower number of deaths may reflect reporting delays over the weekend. This brings the total number of…

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…