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Disney Seeks To Raise $6B In Fresh Cash With Sale Of Debt Securities
Walt Disney Friday stated it plans to lift $6 billion from the sale of debt securities. In a submitting with the SEC Friday it fleshed out a prospectus from the day earlier than the place it had signaled its intention to promote notes. Corporations are benefiting from low rates of interest to lift recent money
China diverts incoming international flights from Beijing to other cities
An airplane from China Jap Airways on the Beijing Daxing Worldwide Airport Picture: Courtesy of China Jap Airways China’s air regulator moved to divert incoming worldwide flights from Beijing to different Chinese language cities, in a fast response to comprise rising imported infections of the novel coronavirus. CA910, which is to depart from Moscow
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Lin-Manuel Miranda & Andrew Lloyd Webber Take Musical Playoff Challenge For Isolation Days
Two days in the past Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Twitter web page requested socially-isolated followers which of the composer’s songs they’d most like to listen to Sir Andrew play. The reply was clear – “All I Ask Of You” from The Phantom of the Opera – however one other response was extra shocking: Lin-Manuel Miranda responded
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Illinois Issues Stay-At-Home Order To Limit Spread Of Coronavirus; Joins California And New York In Imposing Restrictions
Illinois is becoming a member of California and New York in issuing stay-at-home orders, the newest try and include the unfold of coronavirus by asking non-essential employees to stay at their residences. “To keep away from the lack of doubtlessly tens of 1000’s of lives, we should enact a direct keep at residence order for
Medical teams aiding Hubei leave Wuhan with gratitude and respect from locals
An airline attendant holds a poster saying,”Welcome residence” on the airplane taking the Xinjiang medical workforce residence on Tuesday. Photograph: Courtesy of Bahagul Tolheng “Welcome again, our heroes!” The identical greetings could possibly be heard on many charted planes as medical groups head residence from Wuhan and Hubei. Receiving widespread declarations of gratitude, the medical
Shanghai doctor with Wuhan experience ready to fight COVID-19
Picture: Yang Hui/GT Shanghai medical doctors who simply got here again from Wuhan are already lending a serving to hand to overseas international locations being confronted with the COVID-19 pandemic. Chen Jinhong, a health care provider from Huashan Hospital in Shanghai, is among the many first batch of the 73 Shanghai medical personnel to return
Andy Cohen’s ‘Watch What Happens Live’ Returning To The Air From Cohen’s Apartment
One other day, one other adjustment for late-night TV amid the coronavirus disaster. Andy Cohen is returning to the air Sunday after manufacturing was suspended final week on his Bravo late-night present Watch What Occurs Reside because of the outbreak, with just a few adjustments. Now titled Watch What Occurs Reside with Andy Cohen: @
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Tough Talk In WME Partners Call As Agency Prepares For Prolonged Hard Times In Coronavirus Shutdown
Past the bombshell Paradigm chief Sam Gores teleconference to quickly laid off over 100 staffers, a WME Companions convention name as we speak has put the members of that choose group in a state of shock. Basically, these brokers have been instructed of an indefinite postponement of a windfall they anticipated to happen on April
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‘Power Book II: Ghost’ Crew Member Hit With Coronavirus; Starz Spinoff Suspended Production Last Week
EXCLUSIVE: Per week after two of the Energy spinoffs pushed the pause button on manufacturing as a result of coronavirus issues, the worldwide pandemic has hit near residence. A crew member on Energy E book II: Ghost has been identified with COVID-19, I’ve realized. At the moment in a NYC hospital receiving care, the person
Casting Society Postpones Tonight’s Virtual Casting Panel For SAG-AFTRA Members
Tonight’s live-streaming panel wherein the Casting Society of America was going to supply tricks to SAG-AFTRA members about digital casting through the coronavirus disaster has been canceled. “In mild of Los Angeles’ new Safer at House emergency order and the truth that workers members from the SAG-AFTRA Basis could be required to be of their
Moviefone Sold For $1M, MoviePass Next On Block As Bankrupt Parent Dismantled
A New York chapter decide Thursday permitted the sale of the enduring Moviefone film listings service for $1 million as a part of the chapter of its dad or mum firm Helios & Matheson Analytics. That oddly-named holding firm shot to fame by beginning, rising and in the end badly bungling the MoviePass subscription service,
CAAC considers diverting international flights from Beijing to other cities
The check-in counter of China Southern Airways in Beijing Daxing Worldwide Airport Picture: Tu Lei/GT China’s air regulator has arrange a particular workforce to divert arriving worldwide flights from the capital metropolis of Beijing to neighboring Chinese language cities, in response to a doc obtained by GT on Thursday. In complete of 12 airport corporations
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Throw a Netflix Party with this extension that turns your stream into a group chat
Photograph: Charley Gallay (Getty Pictures for Netflix) Ain’t no occasion like a Netflix Celebration occasion, ’trigger a Netflix Celebration occasion… permits you to social distance from the self-quarantine-approved consolation of your respective properties. A Google Chrome extension known as Netflix Celebration now permits individuals to assemble just about and synchronize their Netflix viewing in a
Chinese firms in Germany face growing coronavirus headwinds
A German police officer sporting a protecting masks checks a driver on the border with Austria, close to the German village of Oberaudorf as Germany imposed border controls with 5 nations in a viral fightback, on Monday. Germany launched border controls with Austria, Denmark, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland in a bid to stem the coronavirus
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Coronavirus: BAFTA In Talks With Distributors About 2021 Eligibility Flexibility
BAFTA is in talks with distributors relating to eligibility for movies for subsequent 12 months’s awards season provided that many received’t be launched theatrically as a result of coronavirus. A BAFTA spokesperson mentioned: “BAFTA is reviewing how to make sure that movies scheduled for launch throughout this unsure interval stay eligible, and are working with
National Spelling Bee Postponed Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
The 93rd Scripps Nationwide Spelling Bee has been suspended because the coronavirus continues to unfold, and organizers are their choices for the occasion whose finals air on ESPN yearly. “The suspension consists of all in-person occasions and the dwell nationwide broadcast the week of Might 24,” organizers stated in an announcement (learn it in full
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Sesame Street, the nation’s most helpful institution, is putting up a bunch of free pandemic resources
Bert and Ernie, failing to observe social distancingPhotograph: Tristar Media (Getty Pictures) Whereas the silence from Kermit, Miss Piggy, and Fonzie’s camp stays deafening, Sesame Street’s rather more dependable group of Muppets are right here to assist throughout a second of disaster with the Caring For Each Other initiative. A statement from Sesame Workshop outlines
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‘Grey’s Anatomy’, ‘Station 19’, ‘The Good Doctor’ Among Medical Shows Donating Supplies Amid Coronavirus Crisis
TV medical dramas proceed to do their half to assist hospitals and medical employees who’re in dire want of provides in the course of the coronavirus disaster. ABC’s Gray’s Anatomy, Station 19 and The Good Physician are among the many reveals donating masks, robes and gloves to these medical employees and hospitals in want. “At
Taiwan facing risk of infection wave due to flawed control effort: experts
Vacationers view the Taipei 101 skyscraper, a landmark in Taipei, southeast China’s Taiwan, Jan. 2, 2017. (Xinhua/Zhu Xiang) The island of Taiwan’s epidemic management efforts towards the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) are severely flawed and Taiwan is going through the danger of one other wave of COVID-19 infections, because the island’s authority beforehand solely targeted on
UK Cinemas & Theatres Ordered To Close Tonight Amid Coronavirus Battle
British cinemas and theatres have been advised they have to shut on Friday night time because the UK takes one other step nearer to lockdown following the outbreak of coronavirus. Prime minister Boris Johnson introduced the measures at his every day press convention, asking leisure venues to “shut tonight, as quickly as they fairly can,
Showtime Offers Free 30-Day Trial To New Customers
ViacomCBS’ Showtime community introduced that it’ll supply a 30-day free trial to new clients efficient immediately. Viewers who enroll earlier than Might three can entry the community’s unique sequence, documentaries, specials and flicks on-line through the Showtime streaming service on Showtime.com or the Showtime app, out there on all supported gadgets. A significant draw –
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‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Tops Thursday Ratings While Comedies Gain Across The Board In Stay-At-Home World
ABC’s drama duo Gray’s Anatomy and Station 19 surged week over week to complete as Thursday’s top-rated reveals in primetime, whereas the evening’s lineup of contemporary comedies all noticed positive factors — a number of by extra then two tenths within the demo. It presents one other spherical of information suggesting folks staying dwelling throughout
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NAB Las Vegas Going Virtual In April, Not Being Rescheduled: Focus On New York Show Later In Year
NAB CEO Gordon Smith introduced Friday that the 2020 Las Vegas present will happen in digital kind in April as a digital providing known as NAB Present Specific and that preparations are underway to boost the NAB Present New York later this 12 months. In response to at the moment’s announcement, Tim Shoulder, the President
Escape your boredom with this at-home escape room made with Google Docs
Discover the way in which out, if you happen to can.Picture: Buda Mendes (Getty Photographs) Self-isolation is inspiring a really particular form of creativity in folks. Some are doing prolonged livestreams on Instagram, some are churning out quarantine-themed TikTok movies, and nonetheless others are creating virtual escape rooms that play out over a sequence of