L.A. COVID-19 Testing Center to Remain Open Following 'She's All That' Remake Shoot Drama

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe Russo brothers, directors of the all-time top grossing film “Avengers: Endgame,” quietly secured a roughly $50 million cash infusion from Saudi Arabia earlier this year, multiple sources tell Variety.In a deal brokered and closed at the beginning of the pandemic, the Russos received the investment from an undisclosed Saudi bank in exchange for a minority stake in the brothers’ Los Angeles-based production company AGBO.

LOS ANGELES-- Gov. Gavin Newsom, the California Democrat, will begin a 10-day quarantine period after a staff member tested positive for the coronavirus, a spokesperson from his office told Fox News early Monday.

A viral Twitter thread that you have to read made some headlines earlier this week after a passenger on a plane said a man behind her died from COVID-19 in the middle of their flight.

Los Angeles is now the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is the most infected county of the most infected state in the most infected country in the world.

With thousands suffering and dying from the coronavirus in California, the disease has now hit Los Angeles’ first family.

Lindsay Blake “The Prom,” Ryan Murphy’s latest Netflix offering, dropped last Friday to much fanfare.

Weta Digital has tapped Ken Kamins, and former Disney COO Tom Staggs, and Google SVP Jeff Huber to its Board of Directors. The appointments comes as the Peter Jackson studio has offices planned in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The trio join Weta Digital board members Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Sean Parker, Joe Letteri and CEO Prem Akkaraju.

HOLLYWOOD – Helen Cordova, an ICU nurse at Kaiser Permenante Los Angeles Medical Center, became the first person in California to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

A Los Angeles judge has tentatively ruled that Los Angeles County acted “arbitrarily” and without “rational” justification when it ordered a closure to all outdoor dining at restaurants as a coronavirus-control measure. Superior Court Judge James Chalfant notes, however, that due to the state’s overriding regional stay-at-home order that also includes an in-person dining ban, “outdoor restaurant dining in the county cannot reopen at this time.”

Authorities in California are investigating allegations that prisoners in the state may have committed unemployment benefits fraud to the tune of $400 million—with $5 million in fraudulent payments at one facility in San Diego alone.

A regional state stay-at-home order will go into effect for Southern California and San Joaquin Valley at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday amid rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.

Ellise Shafer editorAs COVID-19 cases rise and hospital capacity continues to drop, both the Southern California and San Joaquin Valley regions have been issued a new stay-at-home order by state officials, which will take effect Sunday at 11:59 p.m.As reported by the Los Angeles Times, the order was put into place because the intensive care unit capacity in both regions has dropped below 15%.

Vanessa Hudgens got a compliment that she loved while shopping at the grocery store ahead of the weekend!

After three separate Covid-19 stay-at-home orders in the past week, many Los Angeles residents are undarstandandibly confused.

Los Angeles is under a new modified stay-at-home order starting today as coronavirus cases explode in the region. However, at the same time, a city-sanctioned movie shoot is shutting down a heavily visited testing site tomorrow.