By Dominic Patten
13.05.2020 - 01:00 / hollywoodreporter.com
MGM Resorts International on Tuesday unveiled a "seven-point safety plan" to reopen its casinos and hotels. Expect no more buffet-style meals, plexiglass barriers and handwashing stations on the casino floor, physical distancing at slot machines and fewer players at card tables and digital room keys in hotels.
The bottom line: The days of gambling like James Bond in a heated game while people crowd the card table to admire your winnings are a thing of a past. "Employees will discourage players
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By Mackenzie Nichols
Just when we thought it seemed inevitable that Warner Bros. is planning to move ahead with its July 17 release date for Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” San Francisco releases news that doesn’t bode well for the film’s expected debut, as well as the rest of the summer movie season.
Major Las Vegas resorts are targeting June 4 for a planned reopening date. MGM Resorts International on Wednesday said it will reopen its Bellagio, New York-New York, MGM Grand Las Vegas and The Signature casino-resorts early next month after earlier shutting down all of its U.S.
By Bruce Haring
Luxury movie circuit IPIC on Tuesday announced reopening plans for its 14 locations, including staggered seating and thermal temperature checks. The first of the chain's cinemas to once again welcome customers are all in Texas, where movie theaters were allowed to resume operation earlier this month at reduced capacity (only a smattering have chosen to do so) after coronavirus shelter-in-place orders were relaxed.
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Gregory Tyree Boyce, the actor who featured in The Twilight Saga, and his girlfriend were found dead on May 13, Variety reported. He was 30. Boyce and his Natalie Adepoju were found dead in their Las Vegas condo. The cause of their death has not yet been disclosed. In Twilight, the actor played the role of Tyler Crowley, a student at Forks High School who nearly hits Kristen Stewart’s Bella with his car, before Robert Pattinson’s Edward stops the car with his hand.
Twilight actor Gregory Tyree Boyce died on Wednesday, May 13, at the age of 30.
The government has defended its plan to reopen schools in June, saying it is acting on 'medical and scientific advice'.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper visited SiriusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show” on Tuesday, where the “Anderson Cooper 360” anchor talked about the arrival of his son — born via surrogate — and going viral after a bonkers interview with the mayor of Las Vegas, who shared her belief that the city’s casinos and hotels should reopen despite having literally no plan for how to do that safely in the midst of a worldwide pandemic.