COVID-19 Relief Fund Raises $500,000 To Aid Hollywood’s Assistants And Support Staffers

A new fund to support Irish musicians through the Covid-19 pandemic has been set up by key music industry bodies.

Comcast-owned European pay TV giant Sky said Thursday that it has committed to donate £500,000 ($625,000) to a recently established emergency relief fund to support the U.K.’s creative community amid the new coronavirus pandemic.

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The cast of That Thing You Do! is getting back together!

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ViacomCBS is looking to support industry crewmembers, talent and creatives with a $100 million fund launched amid a production shutdown due to the COVID-19 crisis. The emergency fund will be distributed by ViacomCBS to the Motion Picture & Television Fund and The Actors Fund, charitable organizations already supporting impacted industry workers.

Canadian broadcaster CBC has launched a Creative Relief Fund for indie content makers amid the COVID-19 crisis, with a $2 million pot. The fund will offer "immediate" development and production financing for producers of original content across all genres.

A coalition of industry producers, writers and directors have come together to launch the It Takes Our Village COVID-19 relief fund for film and TV crewmembers left without work during Hollywood's production shutdown. Bruna Papandrea, founder and CEO of Made Up Stories, and producer Gregg Fienberg assembled industry backing from producers Molly Allen, David E.

The U.K.'s COVID-19 Film and TV Emergency Relief Fund, unveiled last month by the British Film Institute and the Film and TV Charity, has now launched with an initial £2.5 million ($3 million) pot to distribute to industry creatives impacted by the crisis. Announced with a $1.2 million donation from Netflix, the fund has since received financial support from the BFI, BBC Studios, BBC Content, WarnerMedia and several individuals.

First Look Media's Field of Vision and Topic Studios, producer of the Oscar-winning film Spotlight, have launched a $250,000 relief fund offering emergency grants to freelancers in the documentary field severely hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Rita Wilson is putting her rapping skills to good use. Following her and her husband Tom Hanks' recovery from the coronavirus, the 63-year-old actress took to Instagram to announce that she had partnered with Naughty by Nature to record a remix of their 1993 track «Hip Hop Hooray.»

Selena Gomez will donate $1 (£0.81) from each sale on her official merchandise store to a coronavirus relief fund.

Fonseca and Andres Cepeda have joined forces once again to release a new song and campaign titled “Te Entrego Mi Corazón,” to raise awareness of the novel coronavirus outbreak in Colombia.Co-written by Andrés Cepeda, Juan Fernando Fonseca, and John Harby Ubaque “Dartagnan,” the inspiring song is a traditional Bambuco with heartwarming lyrics dedicated to the medical professionals and the wider Colombian community.With this new campaign song, the two Colombian artists, who have postponed their

Miley Cyrus has helped executives at MAC Cosmetics announce a $10 million (£8.1 million) donation towards local organisations in the fight against coronavirus.

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