Netflix’s ‘Matilda’ Musical Pauses Production Due to COVID Outbreak

Effective next year, Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS) is throwing the doors open to a new facility in Vancouver, British Columbia which will focus on long-form series and special projects for Disney+. The first project they’ll work on is the highly-anticipated, feature-quality musical series Moana.

EXCLUSIVE: Sky drama The Midwich Cuckoos has become the latest high-profile UK shoot to experience a temporary delay after a crew member tested positive for coronavirus.

Netflix is exploring the possibility of making coronavirus vaccinations mandatory for all cast and key crew members across its UK productions.According to Deadline, executives are considering proposals to expand the rules set out for US productions on Wednesday (July 28), which would apply to everyone working in “Zone A” on a production – including actors and anyone who come into close proximity with them.Major studios and Hollywood unions agreed on the new US rules last week, allowing producers

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is giving serious consideration to mandating vaccinations for cast and key crew across its UK productions.

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Gangs Of London has become the latest major UK production to fall victim to a third wave of coronavirus.

A24’s The Green Knight, David Lowery’s fantasy epic starring Dev Patel, has been taken out of its UK theatrical release slot just two weeks before it was due to hit theaters.

Green Day have performed their first full concert in over a year in the US.The band played a host of classic hits at a warm-up show at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa ahead of their ‘Hella Mega Tour’ with Fall Out Boy and Weezer later this week.

coronavirus pandemic.The annual count of the swan population began Tuesday at Eton Bridge over the River Thames in Windsor, west of London. The Swan Upping is conducted each year to tally swans, and in particular their cygnet offspring, claimed by the British monarch.The tradition, dating back to the 12th century, originally was a way for the monarchy to ensure a supply of swan meat to serve at feasts and banquets.

Actors Brandon Grace, Éanna Hardwicke and Paulina Chávez are joining the cast of Fate: The Winx Saga in Season 2, which is now in production in County Wicklow, Ireland.

the British press has dubbed “the pingdemic” — harsh, mandatory isolation rules in which any close contact of an infected person must stay home for 10 days regardless of their vaccination status or negative test result. It’s estimated that soon some 10 million Britons could be couch-bound. The business-crippling strictures, which are due to end Aug.

EXCLUSIVE: The House Targaryen has been hit by the pandemic.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has partially shuttered production on feature Matilda amid a coronavirus outbreak, making it the streamer’s second UK shoot in as many days to be disrupted by the pandemic after we first told you that Bridgerton was paused on Saturday.

stores as the British meat industry reports staffing problems. The pandemic and the need to self-isolate has lead to a reported 10% self-isolation rate among key workers in meat production lines.

Record Store Day celebrations in the UK.The chain of record stores, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, have yet to be involved in the UK’s annual celebration of independent record stores, though they do take part in a similar celebration in Canada.“As an independently owned chain of stores, we would love to play a part in Record Store Day in the UK,” HMV owner Doug Putman told Music Week in a new feature celebrating 100 years in the business.HMV’s Managing Director Phil

Bridgerton’s Season 2 shoot downed tools for 24 hours yesterday after a crew member tested positive for coronavirus.