Hollywood’s Covid Protocols & Mandatory Vaccinations Extended To January 15

Universal Parks & Resorts made a number of big announcements today, among them that Karen Irwin, President of Universal Studios Hollywood, will become President of Universal Orlando Resort. That property’s current president, Bill Davis, is retiring after 15 years at his post.

Lots of young stars from Hollywood were in London for the 2021 The Fashion Awards!

Loose Women panelist Kaye Adams has given her Instagram followers a health update after receiving her Covid booster jab.

George Clooney is speaking out about the recent changes in Hollywood culture. 

primetime special, “Forever Young: Searching For The Fountain of Youth,” is not about plastic surgery.“This isn’t an hour about famous people who are astonishingly beautiful and successful even though they are,” said Pauley, 71.

Film fans are notoriously hard to shop for: hoarders by nature, obnoxiously opinionated, and weirdly unpredictable in our tastes. But the good news is, there are so many options for the movie lover on your gift list – so many must-have box sets, 4K discs, deep-dive books, and other essentials – that only the rich ones (and seriously, how many rich movie nerds do you know) could possibly have them all, already.

Jet2 has cancelled flights to Austria after the country entered lockdown due to an increase in Covid cases.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterCOVID protocols have added about 5% to the cost of film and TV production budgets, according to an analysis by the California Film Commission.The study is the first to precisely quantify the costs of COVID compliance, including COVID testing and distancing and isolation measures. Producers have previously given anecdotal figures ranging from 10-15%.The new data comes in a progress report issued Tuesday on the California film and TV tax credit.

Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult are celebrating the release of The Great season two!

“We will not reach the 80% threshold by the beginning of the year,” said Los Angeles County Health Director Barbara Ferrer today about the county’s vaccination progress. She then noted, “This is one of the 4 measures we must meet to lift restrictions.” Translation: L.A.’s indoor public masking and vaccination requirements will be in place until at least the start of 2022.

Governor Gavin Newsom today extended for the third time the state of emergency in California related to the threat that Covid poses. Today’s executive order stretches declaration through March 31, 2022, at which time it will have been in effect for more than two years.

Rodgers has been fined a whopping $14,650 for breaking COVID protocols. Which works out to approximately 0.065401785714286% of the $22.4 million Rodgers will earn by the time 2021 ends.