By David Robb
26.03.2020 - 05:45 / variety.com
Leaders of the Directors Guild of America have announced that major studios will pay two weeks’ salary to below-the-line DGA members losing jobs due to the coronavirus shutdown.
DGA President Thomas Schlamme and national executive director Russ Hollander made the announcement Wednesday night in their latest message to their members.
“Our contracts staff and field representatives have been working nonstop, connecting with hundreds of members about their individual work situations, and advocating
Seth MacFarlane firing back over a statement by Fox News host Laura Ingraham that he terms “insane.”
By Dave McNary
BERLIN — Live music promoters across Germany, Australia and Switzerland are anticipating losses of €3.7 billion euros ($4.04 billion) in the first half of 2020 due to the coronavirus, according to a new joint paper from industry organizations.
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NASHVILLE — When the COVID-19 coronavirus forced the shutdown of the concert industry, independent Nashville artist Stevie Woodward got a double whammy.Not only did she lose the steady, six-nights-a-week bookings in the Music City club scene that kept her afloat, she also faced the stark reality that one of her roommates, a nurse at Vanderbilt Medical Center, might well bring the bug home from work.Woodward decided to make lemonade out of lemons and drove to Myrtle Beach, S.C., for an unexpected
United Talent Agency has implemented a company-wide salary cut, multiple people familiar with the decision told Variety, as Hollywood deals with a near-shutdown in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.