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UPDATED with latest: The cascade continued Tuesday afternoon as Los Angles Public Health officials announced that they would update the county’s Covid-19 guidance to follow the new, looser CDC strictures released Tuesday morning. California officials also signaled the state would comply. From the Public Health statement: Los Angeles County will be adjusting our Health Officer

Donald Trump’s office emailed a statement to reporters on Tuesday in which the former president bashed the Oscars, noting its low ratings and suggesting that it return a host to the proceedings and change its name back to the Academy Awards. “What used to be called The Academy Awards, and now is called the ‘Oscars’

One night after the Oscars, late night hosts Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel chimed in with their thoughts on 2021’s unconventional ceremony, offering mixed perspectives. By far the most kind to the award show was Noah, who said that the Oscars “pulled off a lot of cool moments,” despite the shake-up of a

EXCLUSIVE: Eliza Taylor, who starred as the lead on the CW series The 100 for seven seasons, has signed with Verve for representation and lined up her next project. Taylor got her start on the star-making Australian series Neighbours and will return to her native country for her next project It Only Takes A Night. In addition to playing

The tempo of the song chosen for the In Memoriam segment was one of many unconventional choices by the producers of this year’s Oscars. The fast beat of Stevie Wonder’s “I’ll Be Loving You Always” divided fans, with many taking to Twitter to complain, some using memes, including the candy factory scene from I Love

The 93rd Oscars will wrap up a wild and unprecedented movie awards season Sunday with its live ceremony honoring the year’s best in film beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on ABC. It will be the capper to year that because of the pandemic spanned 441 days between the 2020 Oscars and Sunday’s show.

On Saturday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released new Covid-19 data, reporting 16 new deaths and 443 new positive cases of the virus. While the number of hospitalizations continues to decrease across the County as more vaccines are given, the number of deaths and confirmed cases reported today may reflect delays in

UPDATED with latest: The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration on Friday evening accepted the recommendation from CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices that use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine be recommended once again in the U.S. A tweet from the CDC read, “CDC and @US_FDA lift

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Despite the shortcomings posed by pandemic considerations, plus the financial constraints that forced them to pre-tape canned acceptance speeches in certain less-starry categories, Thursday night’s Film Independent Spirit Awards was a pretty lively affair taking into account the Covid circumstances preventing us all from gathering

The Small Business Administration will reopen applications on Saturday for distressed movie theaters, legit playhouses and other live event venues to apply for Covid-19 relief grants. The application process stalled out earlier this month due to a technical glitch, forcing the SBA to shut down its portal on the first day it was opened, April

On Thursday night, Carey Mulligan won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female lead for her Promising Young Woman performance. But her acceptance speech during the virtual show ended on a poignant and heartfelt note, as she dedicated her award to the recently passed actress Helen McCrory. Mulligan said, “She was a true independent spirit

EXCLUSIVE: Disney’s latest film revolving around its iconic Haunted Mansion theme park attraction is gaining more life as the studio is in negotiations Justin Simien to direct the new movie based on the ride. Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich, who helped produce the live-action hit Aladdin, are producing through their Rideback banner with Nick Reynolds of Rideback

Some 70 women representing a record total of 76 overall nominations have been nominated for Oscars this year, a very encouraging statistic for the Academy and the industry. In honor of this, Academy Museum trustee Diane von Furstenberg and the Academy Museum have released a video (click the link above to watch) celebrating the women

Bleecker Street and Topic Studios have debuted the official trailer for their horse racing feature Dream Horse, starring Toni Collette and Damian Lewis. Directed by Euros Lyn (BBC One’s Doctor Who, ITV’s Broadchurch), from a script by Neil McKay, the film tells the inspiring true story of Jan Vokes (Academy Award winner Colette), the small-town bartender

(UPDATED) On Tuesday night, fallout from recent controversies surrounding the Hollywood Foreign Press Association continued. We can confirm from sources with knowledge that Diversity and Inclusion Advisor Dr. Shaun Harper walked away earlier today from the Golden Globes organization, as first reported by THR. The USC professor was hired by the HFPA on March 9.

Resident Evil firm Constantin Film has acquired rights to Lee Goldberg’s scriptThe Walk, which he adapted from his thriller novel of the same name. In The Walk, after an apocalyptic earthquake, a studio exec is making his way by foot from downtown LA to the San Fernando Valley to find his family and has to

Anthony Powell, a three-time Oscar winner whose costume designs helped bring Indiana Jones to rugged life and Broadway’s Norma Desmond to extravagant excess, died Sunday. He was 85. The Costume Designers Guild 892 confirmed the news on Monday night, on their official Facebook page. “Legendary English costume designer Anthony Powell passed away last weekend. He will

After breaking all-time box office records in Japan late last year, the anime adaptation Demon Slayer – Kimetsu No Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train hits North American cinemas on Friday via Aniplex of America and Funimation. Based on the Shonen Jump manga and Ufotable/Aniplex 2019 anime TV series, it picks up where the first season left

The American Society of Cinematographers is announcing its winners today for the 35th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards this afternoon in the feature film, documentary and television cinematography categories.They represent the organization’s picks for the most compelling visual filmmaking over the past 14 months. The Society is bestowing the ASC Board of Governors Award to

James Newton Howard is no stranger to the Western. He composed the scores for Wyatt Earp and Hidalgo, but the music for News of the World required a different touch. “This may be a big Western, with big characters and landscapes,” Newton Howard says, “but it’s a much more introspective movie.” The story follows Captain