Here's What DJs & Producers Have Been Saying About Coronavirus

By Bruce Haring

By Bruce Haring

Allen Kovac's Better Noise label is getting into feature films. Kovac — who has managed pop music acts like Blondie, Mötley Crüe and the Bee Gees — is launching Better Noise Films as part of the Better Noise Entertainment shingle.

Allen Kovac's Better Noise label is getting into feature films.

With production grinding to a halt in the face of the novel coronavirus, the entertainment industry has found itself navigating uncharted territory. To offer a better sense for how, The Hollywood Reporter is running a regular series that focuses on how Hollywood's top writers, actors, directors, executives and more are living and working in these challenging times.

Wynn Handman, the longtime New York acting teacher and artistic director of the American Place Theatre, has died. He was 97.

Diane Rodriguez, an actress, director, playwright and producer who spent 24 years with Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group, died Friday of cancer in Los Angeles. She was 68.

By Bruce Haring

By Ted Johnson

He is reported to have been suffering from coronavirus

By Chris Willman

The hit American comedy TV series The Office recently turned 15 years old, bringing back all the memories and laughs of the show.

Now that many Americans are working from home amid the coronavirus outbreak, producers from “The Office” are taking inspiration from our new normal. Deadline reports that Ben Silverman and Paul Lieberstein, former executive producers on the NBC sitcom, are developing a remote workplace comedy series that will unfold over Zoom and other methods of digital communication.

Now that many Americans are working from home amid the coronavirus outbreak, producers from are taking inspiration from our new normal. reports that Ben Silverman and Paul Lieberstein, former executive producers on the NBC sitcom, are developing a remote workplace comedy series that will unfold over Zoom and other methods of digital communication.

From the comfort of her own home while in self-quarantine, Gloria Estefan sent an important message about the novel coronavirus disease.

Rapper T-Pain is ready for a challenge — more specifically a rap battle! On March 31, the “Low” rapper accepted the challenge to take on American record producer Scott Storch, 46, for their April 1 Instagram live rap battle and T-Pain was more than ready to duke it out. “Sometimes a challenge comes into your house and you gotta accept.

Millions of Americans will be infected by the coronavirus and 100,000 to 200,000 will die, the U.S. government's top infectious-disease expert warned Sunday, as people in and around the country's outbreak epicenter of New York were urged to limit their travel to contain the scourge.

By Anthony D'Alessandro