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Future Today’s Planned Merger With Cinedigm Scrapped, In Content Licensing Deal Instead
OTT platform Future Right this moment mentioned Monday it’s merger settlement with Cinedigm has been terminated and it’s entered right into a content material licensing association with the corporate as a substitute to increase its content material providing. The merger settlement, value about $60 million, was introduced a yr in the past. Future Right this
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Royal Television Society Programme Awards Shuts Out Audience Completely Because Of Coronavirus
Britain’s prestigious Royal Tv Society Programme Awards is abandoning plans to carry the occasion in entrance of a small viewers of winners and RTS representatives. Deadline revealed final week that the Grosvenor Home Resort occasion shall be live-streamed on-line, with solely an intimate viewers of winners and organizers in attendance due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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League Of Professional Theatre Women Offer Emergency Loans During Broadway Shutdown
The League of Skilled Theatre Ladies, a non-profit representing greater than 500 theater artists, is providing members impacted by the coronavirus Broadway shutdown entry to an emergency mortgage fund, the group introduced as we speak. The League is supporting its members by means of its Waldman Emergency Fund, established when longtime member Honey Waldman donated
AMC Entertainment May Face Liquidity Crunch, Need To Sell Assets – Analyst
The world’s largest theater chain might face a money crunch, forcing it to promote property or increase dilutive financing because the exhibition enterprise is in an uphill battle towards the spreading coronavirus The theater business was already going through a troublesome 2020 earlier than Covid-19 hit, famous analyst Alan Gould of Loop Capital. AMC Leisure’s
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Cineworld Share Price Hits All-Time Low As Euro Markets Plunge Over Coronavirus Fears
Cineworld, the second-largest exhibitor on the earth, clocked its lowest ever share value right this moment as world markets proceed to drop within the face of the coronavirus pandemic. European markets are down as a lot as 10% this morning. Leisure shares are being hit laborious, and UK-based Cineworld, which owns U.S. outfit Regal Cinemas,
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CBS News Correspondent Seth Doane Tests Positive For Coronavirus, Reports On His Experience In Quarantine In Rome
CBS Information international correspondent Seth Doane examined optimistic for the coronavirus, and on Monday reported from his house in Rome the place he’s in quarantine. “I began to have somewhat little bit of a cough that fearful me,” Doane defined on CBS This Morning. “For probably the most half I really feel OK. As we
‘Today’ Show Staffer Tests Positive For Coronavirus
NBC’s As we speak present is the most recent to be affected by the coronavirus. An worker on the third hour of As we speak examined optimistic for COVID-19, co-host Savannah Guthrie advised viewers this morning. She advised viewers the community realized of the information in a single day and co-hosts Craig Melvin and Al
‘Peaky Blinders’ & ‘Line Of Duty’ The Latest Coronavirus Casualties
BBC dramas Peaky Blinders and Line Of Responsibility are the newest exhibits to fall foul of coronavirus. Caryn Mandabach Productions and Tiger Facet Productions have postponed manufacturing on Peaky Blinders, whereas World Productions has suspended filming on Line Of Responsibility. Each exhibits are of their sixth season. A BBC spokeswoman stated: “In gentle of the unfold
BBC Delays Big Licence Fee Change Over Coronavirus Crisis
The BBC, in collaboration with the British authorities, has delayed plans to start charging over 75 12 months olds for the licence price due to the coronavirus disaster. British pensioners had been attributable to begin paying the £157.50 ($193.95) price from June 1, however the controversial cost has now been pushed again to August 1
Korean Box Office Hits 16-Year Low as Virus Count Rises
Theatrical field workplace in South Korean capital, Seoul dipped to a 16-year low, as ticket gross sales have moved in inverse proportion to the variety of confirmed circumstances of coronavirus rises. Exhibitors have turned to re-releases to attempt to entice audiences. Knowledge from the Korean Movie Council’s KOBIS service confirmed that simply 244,000 tickets had
London’s LGBTIQ+ Film Fest BFI Flare Cancelled Over Coronavirus
BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Movie Pageant, which was as a consequence of run March 18-29, has been cancelled simply two days earlier than it was as a consequence of open over coronavirus considerations. Organizers BFI stated it was making the transfer with “heavy hearts”, however that “as a result of scale and complexity of operating
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With The NBA Season Suspended, Taiwanese Sports Channel Broadcasts The Anime Slam Dunk
Final week, the NBA determined to droop the season after a participant examined constructive for the novel coronavirus. That implies that followers must wait till the season resumes to look at the season. One sports activities community in Taiwan got here up with a superb technique to fulfill viewers hungry for basketball: the anime Slam
Australian TV Presenter Who Recently Met Rita Wilson Contracts Coronavirus
Richard Wilkins, a veteran Australian leisure journalist, has examined optimistic for coronavirus after an encounter with Rita Wilson. The 65-year-old Channel 9 reporter bumped into Wilson on the Sydney Opera Home on March 8, the place she was performing songs from her album Midway To House within the intimate Utzon Room, along with her husband
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‘The Witcher’ Becomes First Major TV Drama Made In The UK To Be Halted By Coronavirus
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has halted manufacturing on The Witcher for 2 weeks, making it the primary main TV present produced within the UK to be grounded by the chaos being attributable to coronavirus. The Henry Cavill fantasy drama is made in-house by Netflix and is filmed at Arborfield Studios, which is round 40 miles west of
‘Quantum Of Solace’ Star Olga Kurylenko Tests Positive For Coronavirus
Olga Kurylenko, the Ukraine-born actress, is the newest movie biz identify to have examined optimistic for the coronavirus. The Quantum Of Solace, Oblivion and Hitman actress confirmed the information in a social media submit. “I’ve truly been sick for nearly per week now. Fever and fatigue are my foremost signs. Handle your self and do
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British TV Shows ‘Jeremy Vine’ & ‘Loose Women’ Go Audience-Free Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
Channel 5’s The Jeremy Vine Present and ITV’s Unfastened Girls are the primary British TV exhibits to ditch their studio audiences amid the coronavirus outbreak. ITN Productions, which makes day by day topical debate present Jeremy Vine for ViacomCBS broadcaster Channel 5, stated: “As a precautionary measure we now have taken the choice to not have
Coronavirus: India Shuts Down Film & TV Production As More Cinemas Go Dark; Amitabh Bachchan Urges Fans Not To Gather
Producers already on shoots each in India and abroad have been given three days to wrap up work. Among the many productions impacted are Viacom18 Movement Photos’ Forrest Gump remake Laal Singh Chaddha, starring Aamir Khan. Bollywood releases greater than 1,000 films annually however a handful of massive films as a result of be launched
Mubi Strikes 100-Picture Content Deal With Sony Pictures Television India
Mubi and Sony Footage Tv have struck a content material deal that can see the streamer get entry to 100 Sony-owned characteristic movies in India. Titles within the deal embody Django Unchained, Dr Strangelove, Taxi Driver, Stand By Me, Huge Fish, Volver, The Anderson Tapes, Punch-Drunk Love and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Mubi moved into
Coronavirus: India to Halt Film and TV Production
India will briefly cease all movie, tv and digital productions from March 19 by 30 as a response to the spreading novel coronavirus pandemic. Indian media trade regulatory our bodies met on Sunday and arrived at a unanimous resolution to droop manufacturing. “The well being and security of our colleagues comes first, therefore we fully
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‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Shuts Down Production In New Zealand Over Coronavirus Fears
The Lord Of The Rings has joined a swathe of different main TV and movie tasks in shutting down as coronavirus wreaks havoc on international manufacturing schedules. The New Zealand Herald reported that Amazon’s epic retelling of J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel has floor to a halt for at the very least two weeks after the nation’s
Aaron Pedersen To Headline Australia’s ‘Back To Nature’ Factual Series
March 16, 2020 12:10AM PT Aaron Pedersen, star of “Mystery Road” and “Goldstone” has begun filming in Australia of factual lifestyle series “Back to Nature.” The show, comprising eight half-hour episodes, is co-hosted with author Holly Ringland (“The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart”). The series is a new exploration of Australia’s hugely varied landscapes, geographies
China’s Economy Heading for Historic Reverse, Reflecting Virus Impact
An historic shift into reverse gear for the Chinese language economic system could possibly be one of many subsequent penalties flowing from the unfold of the novel coronavirus. That prospect threw Asian inventory markets into reverse on Monday, regardless of financial stimulus measures within the U.S. The U.S. Federal Reserve, on Sunday (Monday morning in
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‘Last Week Tonight’: John Oliver Talks Trump’s Lies About Coronavirus, Flattening The Curve And Importance Of Avoiding Misinformation
On Sunday night time, John Oliver had a stripped-down model of Final Week Tonight. Like many speak exhibits, he has opted to not have a studio viewers in the course of the coronavirus pandemic. “This isn’t going to be our standard present,” he stated on a stark white set, admitting that the place they normally
‘Happy Old Year’ Wins Osaka Asian Film Festival
“Pleased Outdated Yr,” directed by Thailand’s Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, was named because the winner of the Grand Prix greatest image award on the Osaka Asian Movie Pageant, which concluded its virus-impacted 15th version on the weekend. Whereas many festivals all over the world have been postponed or cancelled as a result of results of the coronavirus