Editors Guild Putting “Final Touches” On Protocols For Resuming Post-Production Work Amid Pandemic

General Hospital is planning its return.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Tech developer Draganfly and motion picture & TV production company Enderby Entertainment are teaming to launch Draganfly’s Safe Set Solutions for feature and TV productions.Safe Set Solutions is a ground-based technology that uses symptom pre-screening, elevated body temperature measurement, and social distancing digital display to help ensure that crews and casts are safe on set.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVIn the nascent stages of discussions about a production restart just weeks into the Hollywood shutdown, one of the first things about which there was virtually unanimous consensus was that testing would be a cornerstone of any plan to safely resume shooting.And yet, in the current final stage of setting guidelines to get cameras rolling again, testing surprisingly has become one of the biggest stumbling blocks in reaching a consensus between studios and the

Bold & The Beautiful is coming back.

David Robb Labor EditorThe Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, has issued its protocols for the safe return to work amid the COVID-19 pandemic, including a “guiding principle” that “employers are prohibited from asking or otherwise requiring any crew to sign liability waivers.”The guild’s craft-specific recommendations are in addition to the health and safety protocols issued last week by the Industry-Wide Labor Management Safety Committee Task Force, which did not address the liability issue,

may be able to resume in California on June 12, but major studios are still weeks — if not months — away from rolling cameras.Before shooting can start or resume on movies and TV shows, the various labor unions that represent everyone from the grips to the actors to the directors, have to sign off on safety procedures for how sets should operate in the age of coronavirus.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorProducers at Levity Live consider themselves lucky. The shows they were working on — like Food Network’s “Restaurant: Impossible,” Adult Swim’s “Black Jesus” and HGTV’s “House Hunters” — had all wrapped principal photography by March when the pandemic hit.

The Quebec provincial government and health officials have given the green light for film and TV production to resume on June 8 amid the coronavirus pandemic. Provincial soundstages will be able to host movies and series production, and Montreal-based visual effects and postproduction houses may also resume full operation under social distancing guidelines.

James Cameron is back in New Zealand, but he won’t be back on set of the Avatar sequel just yet.

Manitoba has become the first Canadian province to allow its film production sector to reopen amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The move to reopen local soundstages beginning June 1 comes as rival jurisdictions in Canada roll out new technologies and social distancing guidelines to make soundstages safe for returning Hollywood studios and streamers.

Hollywood director James Cameron had reportedly landed in New Zealand to resume the production of the highly anticipated film, Avatar 2. The team of the film had to suspend all the work due to the global outbreak of Coronavirus.

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Called out. Leah McSweeney put her Real Housewives of New York City costar Ramona Singer on blast via social media over the weekend.

Clockwise from top left: Rep. Scott Cepicky, Rep. Bruce Griffey, Sen. Mark Pody, Sen. Joey Hensley — Photos: Tennessee General Assembly

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Kristin Cavallari is leaving her personal life at the door as she heads back to work.

Kristin Cavallari is keeping busy amid her split from Jay Cutler. 

Prince Harry has written a heartfelt letter to the Halo Trust, a charity his mother Princess Diana also supported, amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.