Mobos founder's open letter highlights racism in UK music industry

a £1.57 billion support package handed to the arts sector by the government yesterday (July 5).The bailout will provide music venues, independent cinemas, museums, galleries, theatres and heritage sites with emergency grants and loans.The money is the biggest one-off investment in UK culture ever, helping companies, venues and institutions to survive the coronavirus pandemic without going out of business.Announcing the new funds, Boris Johnson said: “From iconic theatre and musicals, mesmerising

Dade Hayes Finance EditorFunimation, a leading provider of anime content, plans to expand its streaming service to Brazil and Mexico this fall, offering select subtitled and dubbed anime series in Spanish and Portuguese.The company, an independent joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Japan’s Aniplex, already operates globally, with nine offices in six countries.

Hundreds of musicians, including Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Tom Jones, have shared footage from their last live gig to demand Government support for the music industry.

Jamie Foxx is going through a “process” to prepare for his role as Mike Tyson in the forthcoming biopic Finding Mike.The Oscar-winning actor has already begun to transform his body to match the former boxer’s physique, but Foxx’s former trainer-turned-stylist told Britain’s The Sun newspaper the journey is as much about his mental state as it is his physical strength.Explaining the star will need to go into a “dark hole” mentally to portray Tyson, Jack Manson insisted his pal has what it takes

Liam Gallagher has joined a host of big names in calling for government support to save's the UK's 'world leading' live music industry.

Moss Side, which sought to address employment inequality in Manchester and help train black women for office-based work.

William DeVaughn, “Just be thankful for what you got.” Live music may have been all but erased due to the virus, but recorded music has shown to be resilient thanks to subscription streaming, which makes up almost three quarters of all recorded-music spend.Had this crisis hit when we went shopping for records at stores like Tower Records, one shudders to think if there would be anything left.Will Page is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, who previously was the chief economist

coronavirus.Today (Tuesday June 23) saw Prime Minister Boris Johnson announce a further easing of lockdown measures from July 4, allowing for pubs, restaurants, hotels, and more businesses within the leisure industry to re-open as long as social distancing can be maintained.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorSTX has snapped up worldwide distribution rights to genre pic Run Rabbit Run, which will re-team Elisabeth Moss with The Handmaid’s Tale director Daina Reid.STXfilms will directly distribute in the U.S., UK and Ireland with STXinternational now aboard for international sales at the Cannes Virtual Market.

I May Destroy You‘s Michaela Coel, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Colin Firth are among more than 3,500 professionals in film and TV who have signed an open letter demanding an end to systemic racism in the industry.The new letter (via Deadline), which is adapted from one published in Hollywood last week by the Black Film Collective, calls for the industry’s “active engagement to tackle structural and systemic racism in our industry, in the UK and around the world”.It comes in the wake of Black Lives

More than 3,500 workers in the British film and TV industry have signed an open letter calling for senior figures and decision makers to make several "strategic commitments" to reshape the landscape of the sector and "tackle structural and systemic racism." The letter comes a week after the Black Film Collective issued a similar statement to Hollywood, with its creators — including producer Nisha Parti (The Boy With the Top Knot), actor-writer Meera Syal (Goodness Gracious Me), actor Indira

Jake Kanter International TV EditorMore than 3,500 film and TV professionals, including top British actors and creatives, have signed an open letter to the UK screen industry demanding an end to “systemic racism.”The missive was adapted from a “powerful and eloquent” letter published in Hollywood last week and its signatories include Michaela Coel, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Colin Firth, Jane Featherstone and David Yates.You can read the full letter below, but at its core are four demands:Other notable

Naomi Campbell is opening up to share her feelings on racism in the fashion industry.

British singer Alexandra Burke shot to fame in the U.K. after winning Britain’s “The X Factor” back in 2008.

We need a pronunciation lesson. Elon Musk and Grimes’ baby’s middle name is just as complicated as X Æ A-12. Well, because it’s almost exactly the same. According to X Æ A-12’s birth certificate, which was obtained by TMZ, the infant’s middle name is AE A-XII, so just a couple numerals different than his first.

Grimes and Elon Musk made a slight tweak to their newborn son X Æ A-12’s name on his birth certificate.The infant’s first name is X on the certificate, obtained by TMZ. His middle name is AE A-XII since birth names in California have to follow the English alphabet, excluding numbers and special signs.The “Delete Forever” singer, 32, gave birth to her first child and the entrepreneur’s sixth on May 4.