It’s “full steam ahead” at the Toronto Film Festival, according to artistic director Cameron Bailey. However, even the organizers of North America’s largest annual film gathering can’t say with total certainty what that means, since there are so many unknowns in the fast-evolving coronavirus pandemic. 12 more words
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The ventilator used by celebrated British physicist Stephen Hawking has been donated to a hospital in Cambridge, U.K., to help treat patients with coronavirus. Hawking, the subject of Academy Award-winning biopic “The Theory of Everything,” died in 2018 from motor neurone disease, aged 76. 13 more words
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Tom Cruise expected to spend his summer in Italy, hanging onto the sides of planes, dodging bullets and engaging in elaborate car chases. The arrival of COVID-19 spoiled those plans, indefinitely postponing the shooting of “Mission: Impossible 7,” the latest installment of the globe-trotting espionage franchise. 13 more words
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Film and TV shoots have restarted in Sweden and Denmark under a new set of preventive rules relating to the coronavirus crisis. Although Sweden did not impose a lockdown or any other drastic restrictions to fight the pandemic as in other countries around the world, it is among the first European countries, along with Denmark,…
via Film Production Restarts in Sweden, Denmark Under New Coronavirus Rules — Variety
Netflix is going back to the debt markets yet again, announcing plans to offer $1 billion in junk bonds to fund operations and potential acquisitions. The announcement comes the morning after the streamer posted an eye-popping 15.77 million net new streaming subscribers for the first quarter of 2020, a record quarterly boom driven by the…
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Longtime television producer Joel Rogosin died Sunday of complications from COVID-19 at the Motion Picture Television Fund’s retirement home in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills. 30 more words
When the organizers of the Venice Film Festival announced on Monday that, yes, the festival would take place in September, you could read their assertion as a statement of hope, obstinancy, or sheer denial. 23 more words
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When the organizers of the Venice Film Festival announced on Monday that, yes, the festival would take place in September, you could read their assertion as a statement of hope, obstinancy, or sheer denial. 23 more words
via Will Film Festivals Happen This Fall? That’s Now a Culture-War Question (Column) — Variety
Longtime television producer Joel Rogosin died Sunday of complications from COVID-19 at the Motion Picture Television Fund’s retirement home in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills. 30 more words
Netflix is going back to the debt markets yet again, announcing plans to offer $1 billion in junk bonds to fund operations and potential acquisitions. The announcement comes the morning after the streamer posted an eye-popping 15.77 million net new streaming subscribers for the first quarter of 2020, a record quarterly boom driven by the…
via Netflix Plans to Raise $1 Billion Through Debt Offering — Variety
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