Movie Theaters Can Attract More Customers With Vaccine Mandates, Lower Ticket Prices, Study Finds

Manchester City defender Ruben Dias has been crowned the best player in the Premier League for 2021 by football analysts CIES.

Kate Aurthur editorFor Variety’s FYC Fest, screenwriters Aaron Sorkin (“Being the Ricardos”), Paolo Sorrentino (“The Hand of God”), Adam McKay (“Don’t Look Up”), Tracey Scott Wilson (“Respect”) and Kenneth Branagh (“Belfast”) gathered virtually to discuss their own individual movies, as well as the state of the film business.McKay kicked off the conversation by talking about how he’d adjusted “Don’t Look Up” — his Netflix comedy-tragedy about a comet hurtling toward Earth — because of COVID-19,

Stephen Colbert has some general health advice for “General Hospital” alum Ingo Rademacher.

Journal of Adolescent Health finds that transgender youth who receive gender-affirming hormone therapy have lower rates of depression, suicidal thoughts, and suicide attempts than their other trans and nonbinary peers who have not received hormones.The article, “Association of Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy with Depression, Thoughts of Suicide, and Attempted Suicide among Transgender and Nonbinary Youth,” is being hailed as the first large-scale study examining transgender youth receiving

study by University of Warsaw’s Centre for Research on Prejudice.

's Ingo Rademacher is suing ABC over the network's vaccine mandate.

Former "General Hospital" star Ingo Rademacher has sued the soap's home network of ABC over Its vaccine mandate. The star, 50, exited the long-running daytime drama in November after refusing to comply with ABC's mandate requiring "General Hospital" employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to multiple reports.

“General Hospital” star Ingo Rademacher is fighting back after being fired from the soap for not getting his COVID-19 vaccine.

Ingo Rademacher has chosen to pursue legal action over his firing from General Hospital.

A couple of weeks after Ingo Rademacher was pink slipped from General Hospital by ABC for not getting a Covid-19 vaccination, the actor has jabbed the Disney-owned network with a wide-ranging civil rights lawsuit on constitutional grounds.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer“General Hospital” star Ingo Rademacher sued ABC on Monday, arguing that the company’s COVID vaccine mandate is unconstitutional and amounts to religious discrimination.Rademacher, who played Jasper “Jax” Jacks on the soap for nearly 25 years, was fired last month after refusing to get vaccinated. According to his lawsuit, Rademacher sought a religious exemption from the mandate, which ABC rejected.Rademacher is represented by John W.

The Los Angeles Unified School District appears poised to withdraw its student vaccination mandate for the spring semester.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaApple Original Films will back “Bad Blood,” a feature film from “The Big Short” writer and director Adam McKay that will star Jennifer Lawrence as Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaSean Baker likes to turn his camera on the people and places Hollywood usually ignores.In films like “Tangerine,” the story of a transgender sex worker that was shot with an iPhone, and “The Florida Project,” a look at an unemployed single mother and her young daughter who live in a rundown motel in the shadow of Walt Disney World, Baker has made a career of dramatizing lives lived on the economic margins.

Spider-Man: No Way Home.” The comic book epic, which serves as a culmination to the Tom Holland-led trilogy and co-stars Zendaya as MJ and Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange, hits theaters on Dec. 17.When advance tickets went on sale on Nov.

Los Angeles today began enforcing an ordinance requiring Angelenos patronizing indoor restaurants, gyms, movie theaters and recreational facilities, personal care establishments and some city buildings to show proof of full vaccination against Covid-19. Business owners are expected to monitor compliance.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaDisney’s “Encanto” netted $1.5 million in Tuesday evening previews and MGM’s star-studded crime drama “House of Gucci” brought in $1.3 million ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.“Encanto” is expected to top the box office and generate $40 million over the five-day period, a more muted launch for a Disney holiday offering than previous Thanksgiving debuts from the Mouse House such as “Frozen II” in 2019 ($123,7 million), “Ralph Breaks the Internet” in

"General Hospital" star Steve Burton confirmed he has been ousted from his longtime gig after he did not comply with production's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.  "I wanted you to hear it from me personally," he said on Instagram, before explaining his stance on the topic as a whole. "Unfortunately, ‘General Hospital’ has let me go because of the vaccine mandate.