Commercial Producers Agree With Hollywood Unions to COVID-19 Testing on Sets

Gary Holt believes the lack of fans this season is benefiting Rangers more than Celtic. The Light Blues hold a 16 point advantage in the Scottish Premiership and Holt reckons that's in part down to the fact stadiums are lying empty on matchdays.

James McClain Now that she’s settled into her new $10 million Los Feliz compound, it’s only natural that Ava DuVernay is ready to offload her other L.A. property, this one a far more modest place tucked into the tightly packed hills of Hollywood, where homes enjoy dramatic views of the city skyline.

Hollywood screenwriter and producer David Giler, best known for theAlien movie franchise, has died. He was 77.

Clay Smith, who spent many years as a senior producer at Access Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight, died Friday night after a long battle with cancer, according to a friend.

Mark David The longtime Hollywood Hills home of actor Scott Patterson has popped up for sale at a smidgen under $2.8 million.

Mark David Actor David Berman, who portrayed Asst. Medical Examiner David “Super Dave” Phillips in nearly 300 episodes of the heavily syndicated and still quite popular crime series “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” has put his home in the foothills between L.A.’s historic Beachwood and Bronson Canyons up for sale at hare’s breath below $2.2 million.

The Association of Independent Commercial Producers has launched a diversity initiative to create more job opportunities for people of color in the advertising industry. AICP says the the program, dubbed “Double the Line,” is designed to “double up on key production and post-production roles, so clients can double down on creating more opportunities.”

Sandrine Holt, who most recently played the character of Oksana on Amazon’s sci-fi drama The Expanse, has signed with APA. Holt also was a series regular on popular TV series like House of Cards, Hostages and The Returned, and had recurring roles on Homeland, Mr.

release its 2021 slate simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max. That includes sprawling, special-effects-heavy tentpole pictures such as “The Suicide Squad” and “Dune,” as well as awards season hopefuls like “Judas and the Black Messiah” — all representing some $2 billion in production costs.

A charismatic film producer from Brazil who found success in Hollywood on projects like 2019'sThe Lighthouse and the 2017 Oscar winner Call Me by Your Name now finds himself accused by former business partners of fraud, lack of transparency and, according to one complaint, running a Ponzi scheme. The producer is Rodrigo Teixeira, and his relentless drive has made him one of the darlings of Brazil's film industry.

A multi-union coalition of Hollywood unions has reached an agreement with the Association of Independent Commercial Producers for new return-to-work protocols that largely mirror those adopted by the film and TV industry in September. Testing for the coronavirus is one of the major changes in the new AICP agreement, and now brings testing on commercial shoots more in line with those used on film and TV productions.

Dave McNary Film ReporterProducers have agreed to notify the entertainment industry’s unions when a member of casts and crews test positive for COVID-19 in a revision of the industry’s two-month-old safety protocols.The agreement, which took effect on Nov. 30, is contained in a Nov.