Angels or Demons? European Producers Contend With Growing Post Pandemic Power of U.S. Streamers

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorAlan Donnes, who worked as a stand-up comic before producing films, acting, doing radio, writing about sports and running National Lampoon, died July 8 of bacterial meningitis in Los Angeles. He was 57 and had been hospitalized for three weeks.

Naya Rivera was reported missing on Wednesday, July 8, after renting a boat with her 4-year-old son, Josey, in the Los Angeles area.Us Weekly confirmed that officers were looking for the 33-year-old Glee star on Wednesday after she was late to return the pontoon boat.“It is believed that Naya and her son were swimming in the lake near the boat and as they were getting back into the boat, her son made it into the boat and Naya went underwater and did not resurface,” the Ventura County Sheriff’s

Drew and Jonathan Scott are back to business following the coronavirus pandemic.

Dave McNary Film ReporterOn-location film in Los Angeles plunged to its lowest levels on record for the second quarter due to the coronavirus pandemic, the FilmLA permitting agency reported Wednesday.The report showed overall production plunged by 97.8% to only 194 shoot days as production remained shut down from March 20 to June 15.

updated figures released by the LA Controller.On Monday, LA Controller Ron Galperin shared that Los Angeles recently regained 16,000 jobs in the month of May, but the city is still down 252,000 jobs overall dating back to February.In arts, entertainment and recreation, one of the hardest hit areas, Galperin estimates that 19,294 jobs in total have been lost according to the updated data.Also Read: Gov Newsom Orders Los Angeles and 18 More Counties to Close Movie Theaters for At Least 3 WeeksA

Lamar Odom revealed his new neck tattoo on Friday, July 3, featuring an imprint of his fiancée Sabrina Parr‘s lips.“I wear my wedding ring on my neck!!” the former Los Angeles Lakers player, 40, captioned two photos on Instagram that showed the red lips with the words “Baby Doll” underneath. “Sorry if it offends anybody.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorCarl Reiner amassed many accolades during his eight decades in showbiz, from nine Emmys and a Grammy to the Mark Twain Prize to a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.The multi-hyphenate master of comedy, who died June 29 at age 98, also claimed another prestigious tribute — his name on the menu at Los Angeles’ venerable Pink’s Hot Dogs stand on La Brea Avenue. The Reiner Dog is a 9-inch stretch dog topped with mustard and sauerkraut.

her0ism is a Japanese music producer with numerous hits in his home country and abroad under his belt, who has been based in Los Angeles since 2016. Ryo Ito is also a hit-making J-pop music producer who has played a key role in introducing co-writing as a way of making music in Japan.

With more than 300 films to his name across 25 years in the business, Phil Hunt, founder and managing director of London-based financier Head Gear Films, is one of the most prolific exec producers around. But Head Gear — which he founded in 2002 and helps fund film, TV and video games, and has backed titles such as Minamata, Black Mass, Belle and X+Y — is just one of Hunt’s six businesses.

Anna Marie de la Fuente The Dominican Republic’s lauded film law marks its 10th year amid general elections set for July. Fortunately, the three main candidates are said to be pro-cinema.“The law is up for a review, but we don’t think there will be too many changes,” says film commissioner Yvette Marichal.As the country gears up to emerge from its COVID-19 lockdown by July 1, it is still unclear when productions will restart and shuttered cinemas reopen.

Like Bavaria's heraldic lions from which it takes its name, Leonine got off to a roaring start. The would-be German mini-major, launched last year with a nine-figure war chest from its owners, New York investment firm KKR, quickly grew from cub to king of the jungle with a series of choice acquisitions, including film and TV powerhouse Tele München Group, indie film distributor Universum, Dark producer Wiedemann & Berg and local small-screen production outfit i&u TV.

Steve Bing took his own life, a coroner in Los Angeles has said.The 55-year-old, who shared a son with actress Elizabeth Hurley, was found dead in Century City on Monday.On its website, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's Office listed Bing's cause of death as "multiple blunt trauma" and said the manner was suicide.The case is now closed, the coroner added.Former US president Bill Clinton among those to pay tribute as news of Bing’s death emerged.Bing was described as a "sweet,

LOS ANGELES -- Movie producer, film financier, real estate heir and major Democratic political donor Steve Bing has died. He was 55.

LOS ANGELES — Steve Bing, a producer, philanthropist and screenwriter, has died by suicide in Los Angeles. He was 55.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Here’s a positive one for the Euro film industry – shooting has resumed on Tochter (English translation Daughter), a co-production between significant producers from Germany, Greece and Italy.The project is being heralded as the first post-COVID international co-pro to get back underway in Europe, a fact confirmed by two major bodies EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs) and ACE (Association des Cinémathèques Européennes).Pic is based on

Emiliano De Pablos As coronavirus ravaged Spain in April, the country’s central government took one significant step toward building for a post-COVID future.

Film producer Steve Bing has died after reportedly jumping from a Century City building in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon.The body of the film financier and philanthropist was found at 1 p.m.

In his 2013 documentary Seduced and Abandoned, Alec Baldwin — together with writer/director James Toback — served up something of an homage to both the Cannes Film Festival and the film industry, marvelling at the cinematic allure of the event itself while also lifting a comedic lid on the less-romantic wheeler-dealings of the market.