By Ramin Setoodeh
15.05.2020 - 20:29 / variety.com
By Dave McNary
Film Reporter
The Directors Guild of America has been fast-tracking nearly $9 million in foreign levies to 5,000 directors over the past week.
“As production remains suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Guild has continued its work to expedite vital income when it is most needed,” the DGA announced Friday. “Foreign levies are fees collected by foreign countries in part to compensate rights holders for the effects of re-use, copying, rental and retransmission of their
By Ramin Setoodeh
By Dave McNary
By Jill Goldsmith
Waiting for Guffman and Modern Family actor Fred Willard died of natural causes on Friday, May 15. The actor was 86.
Fred Willard, who played Phil Dunphy’s father on Modern Family, has died at the age of 86.
In another union effort to bring financial relief to the entertainment community amid COVID-19, the Directors Guild announced on Friday that it had expedited the payout of $9 million in foreign levies to directors. The Guild says it paid over 5,000 directors in the past week as a result of these efforts.
By David Robb
The filmed version of the original Broadway production of Hamilton will launch on Disney+ more than a year earlier than planned, streaming on July 3, it has been announced.
There are two kinds of people during lockdown – those who are craving their favourite take-outs and those that have become master chefs in their own right. Local radio and television presenter Kriya Gangiah and comedian Nicholas Goliath are two people who have really pushed their culinary skills to their limits during this lockdown.
Former Inter Milan defender Ivan Cordoba believes Manchester United “did not understand” the potential of Romelu Lukaku.
Ryan Giggs has revealed that he would regularly fall out with Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, but that the legendary manager didn't mind it.
On Wednesday (May 7), Meek Mill received the ultimate gift when his girlfriend Milan Harris delivered their first child on his 33rd birthday."Milano dropped me off a king on my birthday! #thebestgift," tweeted an overjoyed Meek. The couple received a heap of support from friends and family, as Harris thanked everyone on her Instagram stories."I've been sleep all day, exhausted," she wrote.
Meek Mill is a father for the third time!
Meek Mill and girlfriend Milan Harris are now parents of a baby boy!