Canada's COVID-19 Relief Fund for Film Producers Gets $19 Million Injection

Jake Kanter International TV Editor Netflix has donated another £600,000 ($773,000) to a second COVID-19 Recovery Fund established by the UK’s Film And TV Charity, taking its total funding for the charity to £1.75M ($2.25M).The Film And TV Charity’s second fund is aimed at helping film, television, and cinema workers worst affected by the economic wreckage of coronavirus.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterOscar nominee Marianne Farley is set to direct her first full-length feature film North of Albany. The film begins production next week in Quebec.Farley also co-wrote the film with her producing partner, Benoît Beaulieu.

BritBox, the U.K. content-focused streaming service launched by BBC Studios and ITV, is set to lose its CEO and president for the U.S.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, cameras have stopped rolling on the sets of several The CW series, including Riverdale, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Nancy Drew, and Charmed.A studio executive told THR that the bottleneck at local testing facilities is a situation they're monitoring "hour by hour and day by day" as safety of the crews is of the "utmost importance." TV Guide has reached out to The CW for comment and will update this post when that is available.

Brooke Lynn Hytes has been diagnosed with COVID-19 after coming into contact with others who had the virus in Toronto.

Naman Ramachandran Julie Bristow, former CEO and president of Bristow Global Media (BGM), has launched The Content Catalyst Fund (CCF). The initiative will focus on content developed, delivered and designed by women and about women.Based in Canada, with an international reach, CCF will develop and invest in unscripted and scripted content, with an initial focus on unscripted.

The Canadian government has stepped in to temporarily cover losses incurred by local producers forced to shut down or scrap film and TV shoots due to a coronavirus outbreak. The Short Term Compensation Fund will offer indie productions up to $1.5 million if they face a temporary interruption and $3 million for a complete shutdown of production, to a maximum of $50 million.

In a video from the Vancouver, Canada, set of the show’s fifth season, “Riverdale” actors KJ Apa and Camila Mendes take a swig of mouthwash in an apparent effort to stave off the coronavirus before a kissing scene.After locking arms and sipping, the actors pass off the cups to a gloved assistant and proceed to their intimate business.“Our new normal is washing our mouths before every take of a make-out scene,” Apa, 23, captioned the clip.But before you go swishing Oral-B ahead of your next

Ryan Reynolds is doing his bit in a bid to have more Black, Indigenous and people of colour on film sets.

Ben Croll Though Canada’s National Film Board has invested in interactive projects for well over a decade, 2020 has proven to be a banner year for the publicly funded organization, as three of their VR productions made waves across the international festival circuit.This past January, director Randall Okita’s “The Book of Distance” premiered at Sundance, kicking off a yearlong festival tour that took the immersive doc from Tribeca to Bucheon to Venice.

Thanks in part to solid numbers in Asia, Warner Bros.’ “Tenet” crossed $250 million at the global box office this weekend. However, domestic grosses continue to lag as the film only grossed $4.7 million in North America, bringing its total in the U.S.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticA coronavirus relief fund for New York City’s small theaters was launched today by The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, the arts service organization dedicated to supporting nonprofit theaters.The Relief Fund for NYC Small Theatres, seeded by a gift by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, is designed for small stage venues based in or primarily produce in New York City with annual budgets under $250,000.

ET Canada, he said: ‘It really resonates with me, I’m a father of two boys, and definitely I can’t wait for my youngest to see this film.’The actor, who is favourite to take over as 007, is also a father to 18-year-old daughter Isan and 6-year-old son Winston, whom he has from previous relationships.So, now we know that he is a proud father of three! He didn’t share much more details about his little one, but we are overjoyed for the pair.It comes after Idris revealed that both he and Sabrina

Shamier Anderson holds up a phone with Halle Berry Facetiming into the premiere of Bruised during the 2020 Toronto Film Festival in Canada on Saturday (September 12).

Rebecca Rubin News Editor, OnlineChristopher Nolan’s “Tenet” crossed the $200 million mark globally, propped up by overseas grosses while U.S. cinemas struggle to draw audiences during the coronavirus pandemic.The time-bending sci-fi thriller generated $6.7 million in the U.S.

As the Toronto Film Festival gets underway, animal rights activists gathered outside Bell Lightbox to protest luxury parka maker Canada Goose's sponsorship of the awards season launchpad. On Thursday, around a dozen protesters, led by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and backed by mobile billboards traversing King Street, urged TIFF to cut ties with Canada Goose over how it sources its coyote fur and goose down to make its puffy jackets.

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The 2020 Toronto International Film Festival is now requiring moviegoers to wear masks while attending screenings during the event.