Coachella, Stagecoach Canceled for 2020

Peter White Television EditorAmerica’s Got Talent is one of the first big-budget non-scripted formats to resume filming following the COVID-19 production shutdown.The NBC show started shooting outside last week in Los Angeles and the Fremantle and Syco-produced show put in a number of interesting processes to ensure a safe return.Creator Simon Cowell and exec producers Sam Donnelly and Jason Raff tell Deadline how they did it.Before the shutdown, the show, which returned on May 26, shot the

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentColcoa, the Los Angeles-based French film festival, has decided to cancel its 2020 edition due to the continuing health crisis in the U.S.The next edition, which will mark the festival’s 25th anniversary celebration, will be held from Sept. 20-26, 2021.

Just as relatively new indie festivals devoted to Latin music -- like Los Dells in Wisconsin, Ruido Fest in Chicago and Viva! Pomona in the Los Angeles area -- were building audiences and growing their brands, their momentum has come to a halt in the pandemic. Since the coronavirus forced the live music industry into a standstill in March -- and

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Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticOn the heels of last week’s rebroadcast of John Ridley’s powerful 2017 documentary , Let It Fall,  about the 1992 race riots in Los Angeles, ABC is again reaching into its vaults from 2017 for a re-broadcast tonight of the two hour special that aired on January 11th of that year called Taking  The Stage: African American Music and Stories that Changed America. a network special commemorating the opening of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle visited Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles recently, with the organization sharing numerous photos on social media.

LOS ANGELES -- With cries for equality and justice ringing in the streets, a petition drive to rescue a canceled television series may seem inconsequential. But among the advocates for ABC’s “The Baker and the Beauty,” felled by its ratings after one season, are those who value it as an entertaining and affirmative depiction of family life in general and a Latino family in particular — long a TV rarity and, they say, especially vital now.

FilmLA is offering a snapshot of production intensity in Los Angeles sound stages prior to the pandemic. In its newly releasedSound Stage Production Report, the nonprofit has aggregated data supplied by an expanded list of studio partners in an effort toquantify occupancy, film use, and non-film use of 246 certified sound stages and adjoining backlots in Greater Los Angeles in 2018.

Stassi Schroeder and fiancé Beau Clark put on a united front while out and about running errands on June 15. Stassi, 31, who was fired one week earlier from Vanderpump Rules after her past racist comments surfaced, held hands with her handsome guy as they stopped to grab snacks from a gas station in Los Angeles. The couple, who announced just two days earlier that Stassi was pregnant, held hands the entire time.

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and country music festival Stagecoach have been cancelled for 2020, according to multiple reports. Riverside County Public Health Officer Dr.

COVID-19, commonly known as coronavirus, the entertainment and sports industries are taking proactive measures to keep themselves and their audiences safe from the virus, which can be fatal in extreme cases.On June 10, the Los Angeles Times announced that the 2020 Coachella and Stagecoach festivals, originally postponed until October, had officially been cancelled. After remaining closed since mid-March, Walt Disney World announced their plans on May 27 for a «phased reopening» of some of its

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and country music festival Stagecoach will not take place this year due to county and state restrictions. Riverside County Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser told the  Los Angeles Times on Wedn

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhile few people expected that the Coachella and Stagecoach Festivals would actually take place in October, it’s now become official: Riverside County public health officer Dr.

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In an unexpected move, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday that a planned funding increase for LAPD has been canceled and the city will likely seek as much as $150 million in further cuts, with the money used for “reinvesting in black communities and communities of color.”

SZA spoke out on Monday (June 1) to support the cancellation of a planned sit-in protest in Los Angeles in the wake of George Floyd's death."JUST FOUND OUT TOMORROW[']S CANCELLED!" she wrote on Instagram. "AFTER PROPER DUE [DILIGENCE] THERE ARE MANY RISK FACTORS I CAN NOT ALIGN WITH .