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After German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday outlined plans for the easing of restrictions caused by the coronavirus crisis, the country's most populous state has said cinemas will now be able to open from May 30.
North Rhine-Westphalia, which is home to such major cities as Dusseldorf and Cologne, set…
Amazon Prime Video has boarded drama series Little Fires Everywhere, starring and executive produced by Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, and will launch the show in international markets including Europe, Latin America, Canada, and Australia.
Based on Celeste Ng's 2017 bestseller, Little Fires…
Wayne Garvie could see the tsunami coming as early as January, but he was still not prepared for the speed with which coronavirus ripped through the TV industry. Sony Pictures Television’s president of international production watched as his colleagues in China were forced into self-isolation. Korea came next and…
The Netherlands has become the latest country to outline its plan to exit lockdown, with cinemas and other live entertainment venues allowed to re-open in three weeks on June 1.
Restrictions will include a maximum 30 visitors per venue, with social distancing of 1.5 meters between each person.
The Dutch Association of…
Lord Of The Rings and Planet Of The Apes star Andy Serkis is to give a continuous, live reading of novel The Hobbit, which is expected to take around 12 hours.
Serkis will read the entire J.R.R. Tolkien work from start to finish with no breaks as he looks to raise money for UK charities NHS Charities Together and Best…
Virgin Media, the UK cable operator owned by John Malone’s Liberty Global, has agreed a major merger with telecoms giant Telefonica’s British mobile company O2 in a deal worth £24B ($29.57B).
The two companies will form a 50:50 joint venture, which Liberty Global and Telefonica hopes will become an internet and mobile…
Trafalgar Entertainment, the International business specializing in live entertainment, has struck a deal with the New South Wales Government to operate Sydney's Theatre Royal once it re-opens.
The company has signed a 55-year sublease to take on the venue, which will open again in August 2021. It will act as a hub…
Warning: This interview contains spoilers about the series finale of Star Wars: Clone Wars "Victory and Death” on Disney+.
For Star Wars: The Clone Warsproducer-scribe-supervising director-animator Dave Filoni, the animated series has represented a 15-year journey that began when he arrived at Lucasfilm from…
Spaceship Earth is a new documentary about the two-year experiment in which eight members of an experimental theater company embarked on a grand mission to quarantine themselves in a large glass vivarium called Biosphere 2. The film is unexpectedly timely as many of us find ourselves in our own quarantine quandary…
EXCLUSIVE: There’s more than one hot script out there tonight. The latest is Here Comes The Flood, Simon Kinberg's first original screenplay since Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I am told that there are multiple offers in on an elevated, character-driven love-story heist movie with big movie star roles.
Kinberg and Audrey Chon…
Gerald Slater, who helped build PBS as one of its founding employees and later moved to WETA-TV, has died of coronavirus. He was 86.
Slater died April 24 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. He had been residing at a nearby assisted-living facility and also was battling bone cancer. His son, David Slater…
Fitch Ratings has downgraded several categories of Disney evaluations, including the Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) assigned to The Walt Disney Company and its subsidiaries to ‘A-‘ from ‘A’.
At the same time, Fitch has downgraded the company’s Short-Term IDR and CP ratings to ‘F2’ from ‘F1’. In addition, Fitch…
