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WarnerMedia Committs $100 Million To Fund For Idled Production Crews
AT&T’s WarnerMedia is commiting greater than $100 milllion for crews of productions shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic. “We’re stepping up with a dedication of greater than $100 million to help group members of these productions throughout this time. And as issues evolve, we’ll proceed to judge how we will finest reply to the challenges we
Epidemic affects Chinese students’ choice of country for study abroad
A medical employee takes blood pattern for a COVID-19 check of an abroad Chinese language scholar returning house at a quarantine location in Taiyuan, North China’s Shanxi Province on March 17. Photograph: cnsphoto Because the dying toll from COVID-19 soars worldwide, Chinese language college students’ plans to review overseas have been considerably affected,
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Cameron Boyce Foundation Donates To The Actors Fund, Inner City Arts In Memory Of Teen Star’s Legacy
EXCLUSIVE: The Cameron Boyce Basis is reaching out with an unspecified donation in assist of the leisure and artistic group within the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The inspiration will make a donation to The Actors Fund and Inside Metropolis Arts “in an effort to additional the spirit of kindness, and to encourage others to
Russian decree gounds flights; closes borders to foreigners
Russia halted all worldwide flights from midnight on Friday beneath a authorities decree itemizing new measures towards the coronavirus outbreak. Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks on the ceremony of presenting credentials on the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, February 5. Photograph: Xinhua The decree revealed on Thursday orders aviation authorities to halt all common and constitution
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Jeffrey Katzenberg On Launching Quibi In The Middle Of A Global Pandemic & Working To Recruit J.J. Abrams – The Deadline Q&A
Quibi is likely one of the most anticipated platform launches of the yr and it’s additionally probably the most talked about in Hollywood circles. Whereas the short-form service, which comes out on April 6, is launching across the identical time as HBO Max and NBCUniversal’s Peacock, the presence of ex-Walt Disney Studios chairman and DreamWorks
Next US bear market will be worst of my life: Jim Rogers
Merchants work on the New York Inventory Change (NYSE) in New York, the US, on March 12, 2020. (Xinhua) Throughout the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic that has rattled world buyers, China’s inventory market has “completed much less badly” than different markets, together with the US one, as Beijing has “completed a greater job” of
The untold truth of Contagion
Epidemiologist Larry Madoff has identified a fairly obvious absence in Contagion: The non-profit and “unofficial” sector’s digital absence. Its solely consultant within the movie, the truth is, is shady blogger Alan Krumwiede. Writing for The Atlantic, Madoff remarked, “In actual life, this sector contains organizations starting from Medecins sans Frontieres, HealthMap, Flutrackers, to the information media,
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Staples Center, LA Convention Center, Aqueduct Racetrack and OC Fairgrounds Could Be Used As Emergency Hospitals
COVID-19 circumstances are rising, with the odds to this point indicating that numerous folks will get critically in poor health from the virus. As such, authorities officers are getting ready to deal with a affected person overflow through the use of non-traditional venues as hospitals. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti mentioned throughout a press convention
Singapore’s GDP contracts sharply – a warning for virus-hit global economy
Singapore’s economic system suffered its largest contraction for the reason that monetary disaster throughout the first quarter because the coronavirus pandemic escalated, information confirmed on Thursday, an ominous signal of the devastation being inflicted on the worldwide economic system. A container ship from Singapore arrives at Dapukou container terminal at Ningbo Zhoushan Port, East China’s
China keeps global supply chain running
Employees of HC Semitek, a number one Chinese language LED chip maker, produce chips at its subsidiary in Yiwu in East China’s Zhejiang Province. Photograph: Yang Hui/GT Within the manufacturing and export hub of Yiwu, in East China’s Zhejiang Province, a small manufacturing facility has resumed full manufacturing in order that youngsters in
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AMC Networks Latest To Withdraw Quarterly Financial Guidance On Coronavirus-Related Uncertainty
AMC Networks stated Friday it’s withdrawing first quarter and full yr monetary steerage supplied earlier this yr and never providing an up to date fiscal outlook given the uncertainties surrouding the coronavirus pandemic. There’s been an accelerating drumbeat of company bulletins this week – from ViacomCBS to Walt Disney, Comcast, Sony, Discovery, Twitter and Fb
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New Pro-Joe Biden Super PAC Launches With Ad Attacking Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Response
A bunch of Los Angeles politicos have launched a pro-Joe Biden tremendous PAC, Win the West, with a brand new digital advert that takes intention at President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus. Hilda Solis, a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and former secretary of labor, is co-chair of the group,
China must prepare for shocks as massive US rescue package adds urgency
US residents queue as much as purchase day by day requirements at a grocery store in San Francisco, the US on March 16. Photograph: CNS picture An unprecedented $2.2 trillion rescue bundle envisioned to avoid wasting the US financial system from a free fall highlights a large downward stress on US financial system hit onerous
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Rep. Adam Schiff: Coronavirus Relief Bill “Will Hopefully Help Entertainment Industry Workers Get Through Some Of The Hardships To Come”
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) stated that the $2 trillion coronavirus aid laws, signed by President Donald Trump into regulation on Friday, “will hopefully assist leisure business staff get by a number of the hardships to return.” “I believe we have been very lucky to get this language within the invoice that does cowl many of
Peru tries to save bats blamed for coronavirus
Authorities referred to as on Wednesday for apprehensive Peruvians to cease killing bats after rescuing 200 that have been going to be burnt by peasants believing them to be spreading the coronavirus. A uncommon virus unfold by fruit bats, which might trigger flu-like signs and mind injury, has killed 10 folks in southern India Photograph:
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Fox Business Parts Ways With Trish Regan; She Had Made Controversial Coronavirus Comments
Fox Enterprise is parting methods with considered one of its primetime hosts, Trish Regan, after placing her present on hiatus because the coronavirus disaster escalated. “Fox Enterprise has parted methods with Trish Regan. We thank her for her contributions to the community through the years and want her continued success in her future endeavors,” the
ViacomCBS, Following Disney, Comcast, Announces $2.5 Billion Debt Sale
ViacomCBS is the most recent media conglom to faucet the debt market, saying plans to lift $2.5 billion by promoting notes. Disney raised $6 billion final week and Comcast $Four billion earlier this week as firms in – comparatively – robust positions look to construct up a money cushion in opposition to the unsure economics
Ventilator, components makers ramp up exports to meet global demand
Healthcare employees transport a affected person on a stretcher into an ambulance at Life Care Heart of Kirkland in Kirkland, Washington. Photograph: AFP Chinese language ventilator producers are ramping up efforts to produce nations ravaged by the novel coronavirus, whereas calling for a smoother and built-in world provide chain to ensure manufacturing. “With demand for
Pandemic brings robots to the rescue
Robots are anticipated to show their worth for “soiled and harmful” medical duties within the struggle to quell the coronavirus pandemic, researchers mentioned on Wednesday. Robots examine a transformer substation in Qinhuangdao, North China’s Hebei Province on Thursday. Native energy corporations are utilizing extra robots in the course of the coronavirus epidemic in order to
Food supply sufficient despite some import disruptions: experts
Employees put rice seeds right into a drone in Shuikou Township of Kaiping, South China’s Guangdong Province, Feb. 26, 2020. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian) China’s total meals provide is ample regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic and pure disasters which have prompted some international locations to droop or scale back meals exports out of considerations over home shortages,
Disney Extends Closures For Disneyland, Walt Disney World Parks
Disney is extending the shutdown of its U.S. theme parks in Anaheim and Orlando, saying Friday that Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort will stay closed till additional discover. It additionally mentioned it might “prolong paying hourly parks and resorts forged members by way of April 18.” “Whereas there may be nonetheless a lot
Technology helps megacities implement stricter supervision of home isolation
Beijing resident Feng Xiangqian takes the primary prepare from Hubei to Beijing since journey restrictions have been eased, and arrives at Beijing West Railway Station at 5:50 pm on Wednesday. Feng lastly returned dwelling in Beijing’s Shijingshan district after being trapped for 2 months in Hubei amid the COVID19 outbreak. He will probably be quarantined
‘Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan’ Star Dylan Gilmer Signs With Pantheon
EXCLUSIVE: Dylan Gilmer, aka Younger Dylan, star of Tyler Perry’s Younger Dylan on Nickelodeon, has signed with Pantheon for illustration in all areas. Tyler Perry’s Younger Dylan premiered earlier this month to the most important Stay +three lifts for a collection premiere on Nickelodeon in three years. Government produced, directed and written by Perry, Tyler
Washington’s Huawei indecision shows company’s strength: analysts
The emblem of China’s tech big Huawei. Picture: Xinhua The US determined to delay the general public remark interval on Huawei’s proposed license extension, displaying the significance of the Chinese language tech big to US companies amid the COVID-19 outbreak within the US, business analysts mentioned. Insiders mentioned the transfer additionally confirmed the US has