Hollywood stars Stanley Tucci and director Joe Russo were in St Andrew's this weekend to attend the film festival at the Byre Theatre.
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Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer After nearly three years, Hollywood’s COVID protocols will come to an end on May 12, meaning that productions will no longer be able to mandate vaccines after that date. The industry has been gradually relaxing its on-set regulations over the last several months. But with the federal government officially ending its COVID emergency declaration on May 11, the studios and the guilds agreed to scrap the remaining rules as of the following day. The vaccine mandate has become increasingly controversial over the last couple of months. In February, Woody Harrelson called the protocols “absurd” in an interview with the New York Times.
“I don’t think that anybody should have the right to demand that you’re forced to do the testing, forced to wear the mask and forced to get vaccinated three years on,” he said. “I’m just like, let’s be done with this nonsense.”
Tim Robbins echoed that sentiment in a tweet, saying “Woody is right. Time to end this charade.” SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher has also been outspoken against vaccine mandates. In an interview with Variety in February, she said wanted to make sure that “all of my members get an equal opportunity to work.” At the time, she said that about a quarter of productions were mandating vaccines in “Zone A” — which includes actors and those who come in contact with them, like hair stylists and makeup artists. Vaccines have never been mandated for the other production zones. “I think that when it comes to what we do with our bodies, that should be a personal choice,” Drescher said at the time. Any production that has a vaccine mandate in effect as of May 12 will be able to continue to enforce it for the duration of the production, or for TV
Hollywood stars Stanley Tucci and director Joe Russo were in St Andrew's this weekend to attend the film festival at the Byre Theatre.
Prince Harry's belated announcement that he is coming to his father's Coronation next month was warmly welcomed in Los Angeles – not least because the Sussexes' currency depends on him still being seen as an active member of the Royal Family. 'Harry is going back for all the right reasons but there was a palpable sigh of relief among those of us involved in the business because Brand Sussex relies on Harry being seen with his family,' a Netflix source said. 'At the end of the day it is all about proximity to the King.
Students at Stirling University have led angry calls for the institution to reverse rent increases which they believe will hit some of the poorest attendees hardest.
The 2023 class of mentees for the Black Boy Writes & Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative was announced today. The mentees are presented by writer Mike Gauyo (Insecure, Ginny & Georgia), in partnership with Stage 32, and with support from Culture Creative Entertainment, M88, and Final Draft.
Robert Carlock and Sam Means made their names in Hollywood as the writers behind hits like “30 Rock” and “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.” Now the pair returns to Netflix with a new animated series, “Mulligan,” ready to debut next month. READ MORE: The 100 Most Anticipated TV Shows & Mini-Series Of 2023 So what’s “Mulligan” about? Continue reading ‘Mulligan’ First Look: New Animated Series From Writers Of ’30 Rock’ & ‘The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Hits Netflix On May 12 at The Playlist.
Meghan Markle could land prominent acting roles after hiring a well-known Hollywood dealmaker, a PR expert has said. The Duchess of Sussex, 41, who rose to fame starring as Rachel Zane in US legal drama Suits, is working with respected industry “fixer” Adam Lilling, according to reports. Meghan and Prince Harry are said to have met Adam as Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi renewed their wedding vows in Los Angeles last month.
COVID policy will expire for the film and TV industry next month – including the mandate that required all cast and crew to be vaccinated to receive employment.The policy began in September 2020 per an agreement between the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers and Hollywood’s unions. The procedure allowed film and TV sets to start working again after an industry-wide lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic.The policy was supposed to end on April 30, 2021.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large “The Late Late Show with James Corden” only has 12 episodes left before the show ends its run at the end of April — and they’re making it count. For the next three weeks, there will be one “Carpool Karaoke” segment per week, plus one final “Crosswalk the Musical” segment. Corden will also participate in a “Take a Break” segment featuring the Kardashian family. The news was revealed Sunday evening on stage at “The Late Late Show with James Corden” panel at the PaleyFest LA. Held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, the event included Corden, exec producer Ben Winston and exec producer Rob Crabbe. Also on stage: Reggie Watts and the “Late Late Show” Band, who kicked off the night.
Los Angeles County’s COVID emergency declaration. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced an end to statewide emergency measures at the end of February.
Sharon Stone has some less than fond memories from when she filmed Basic Instinct.
Earlier this month, news broke that Quentin Tarantino was ready to prep and shoot his tenth and final film, “The Movie Critic.” THR’s story about the film describes its plot “as being set in late 1970s Los Angeles with a female lead at its center.” And almost immediately, fans speculated that “The Movie Critic” was about Pauline Kael, the late, great movie critic for The New Yorker who had a brief stint in Hollywood during the movie’s time period.
Kate Hudson defended her mother, Goldie Hawn, as "determined" after saying that some people in the industry have labeled her as "difficult" or "complicated" because of how hard she works to get things right. "She decided to tell people that told her to stay in her lane to go f--- themselves and basically started producing her own movies, which wasn’t happening at the time," the "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" actress, 43, told Kelly Ripa Tuesday on her "Let’s Talk Off Camera" podcast, after Ripa noted that Hawn grew up in Hollywood in a "totally different time" when actresses were just expected to act.
Rosie Perez slides into a booth at an upscale Italian restaurant in Manhattan. She pushes up the sleeves on her wool sweater dress and settles in to talk about the state of Hollywood. And women in Hollywood. And Latinos in Hollywood. Or maybe that lack of cultural specificity in the homogeneous blob of film content that is created to appeal to the widest possible global audience. On this afternoon in early March, the Academy Awards are still dominating the conversation, and Perez, a supporting actress nominee for the 1993 drama “Fearless,” has some thoughts. “I think Brendan deserved the Oscar,” she says. “But I wouldn’t be mad if Colin had got it for ‘Banshees of Inisherin.’ He did something specific to his culture, right? How many other movies has he done that were specific to his culture?”
Apple Original Films today laid out its release plans for Killers of the Flower Moon, the Martin Scorsese-directed adaptation of the David Grann book that pairs the helmer’s two favorite leading men, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.
Rose Byrne already has one hit show with Apple TV+ in “Physical,” a dark comedy about a woman’s journey of self-discovery through the rise of the aerobics craze in 1980s San Diego. So will lightning strike twice with “Platonic“? That’s the title of Byrne’s new series coming to the streamer with Spring with co-star Seth Rogen.
BreAnna Bell “It was a lot of highs and Lowes,” John Owen Lowe said of working with his famous father, Rob Lowe, on Netflix’s latest comedy “Unstable.” At the show’s premiere on Thursday night in Hollywood, the father-son duo spoke with Variety about their unique dynamic — and how its portrayal on the show isn’t so different from real life. John Owen plays Jackson, the son of Ellis Dragon (Rob Lowe) in the workplace comedy. Ellis is a quirky biotech genius who finds out he may lose his job when he spirals following the death of his wife. With the company at risk of imploding, his employees seek out the one source they feel can help him at this time: his son.
Robert Pattinson is gearing up to embody a serial killer in his next big role.
Rose Byrne already has one hit show with Apple TV+ in “Physical,” a dark comedy about a woman’s journey of self-discovery through the rise of the aerobics craze in 1980s San Diego. So will lightning strike twice with “Platonic“? That’s the title of Byrne’s new series coming to the streamer with Spring with co-star Seth Rogen.
A.O. Scott this week ends his 23-year run as film critic for the New York Times and most movie people are glad to see him go. So is he.
know a thing or two about survival onscreen — and off. In the breakout Showtime series, Christina Ricci, Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose and Simone Kessell each play the adult versions of members of the Wiskayok High School girls soccer team, who survived a horrific plane crash that left them stranded in the Ontario wilderness. ET's Deidre Behar spoke with each of the actresses -- who have all successfully navigated their careers -- and asked them about their secrets to surviving and thriving in Hollywood. «When I first started, and still as adults, this career has always been an escape for me,» Ricci told ET.