Oscars to Be Held in Two Locations as Academy Unveils New Venue

LOS ANGELES -- The latest member of the “Law & Order” franchise has a familiar face playing a familiar character, but producer Dick Wolf says he’s switching up the storytelling.NBC’s “Law & Order: Organized Crime” stars Christopher Meloni as New York police detective Elliot Stabler, the role he played until 2011 on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”Unlike the largely self-contained episodes of its “Law & Order” relatives, the new drama shifts from one criminal syndicate to another in

Oscars ceremony will be implementing “hubs” for nominees in London and Paris.Following the Academy’s initial and controversial “no-Zoom rule”, which aimed to encourage all nominees to travel to Los Angeles for the ceremony, the telecast producers are now introducing new physical locations.“We can just promise you that we will be more transparent from this point forward,” filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, one of the producers alongside Jesse Collins and Stacey Sher, told nominees on a Zoom call, per

LOS ANGELES -- Whoopi Goldberg, Andra Day and Zendaya will be among the honorees at this year's Essence Black Women in Hollywood event, which will be livestreamed during Oscars week for the first time this year.Essence on Tuesday announced the honorees for the 14th annual ceremony on April 22.In addition to the Emmy-, Grammy-, Oscar- and Tony-winner Goldberg and “Euphoria” star Zendaya, they include actor, singer and songwriter Cynthia Erivo and actor Michaela Coel.Day, who is up for an Oscar a

untimely death is now up for rent, The Post can report. The listing comes seven months after the 2021 Oscar nominee tragically passed away following his years-long secret battle with cancer. Spanning 3,310 square feet, the home first hit the market on Friday, with an asking rent price of $10,000 per month on a one-year lease. A $20,000 security deposit is expected. Rent includes a gardener to take care of the greenery surrounding the home, including the lemon and orange trees.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorTrailblazing director Penelope Spheeris has very few fucks left to give.Spheeris first came on the scene with her Los Angeles punk rock documentary “Decline of Western Civilization,” followed by the disturbing punk drama “Suburbia” starring Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea. But after directing several more independent films, huge success with “Wayne’s World,” and then some lightweight studio comedies, she basically lost faith in Hollywood.

no Zoom element to it. A letter from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released to the film industry website Deadline said: “Our plan is to stage an intimate, in-person event at Union station in Los Angeles, with additional show elements live from the Dolby theatre in Hollywood.

coronavirus pandemic, the Academy Awards will not. On Monday, This Morning hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby spoke to Sam Rubin in Los Angeles about the Oscars update.

Veteran Fox 11 reporter Hal Eisner said he was “grateful to be alive,” and posted a message of thanks Saturday from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he’s recovering from a vehicle crash.

SATURDAY AM Update: Even though 37% of the entire Los Angeles theatrical market is back online, it was enough to propel the DMA to the top weekend spot on Friday with $427,2K, repping a +1,100% jump from the same period a week ago. Los Angeles will feasibly be the No. 1 box office market this weekend, besting New York with well over $1M.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterAn SUV crashed into a storefront on Hollywood Boulevard on Friday afternoon, seriously injuring at least four people, including two members of a Fox11 news crew.Images from the scene showed a white SUV that had crashed into Highland Market, which is across from the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue.Five people were taken to a nearby hospital, four of whom were in serious-to-critical condition, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

EXCLUSIVE: Acclaimed director Roger Spottiswoode is set to premiere his latest film, “a love poem to New York,” at a time when some have questioned the city’s post-pandemic future.

sent out to the nominees Thursday, Steven Soderbergh, Stacey Sher and Jesse Collins detailed the «safe and enjoyable» evening they have planned for the April 25th telecast. «Regarding the practical aspects of the show, our plan is to stage an intimate, in-person event at Union Station in Los Angeles, with additional show elements live from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood,» the email states. The news comes just days after it was announced that the 2021 ceremony would only be open to presenters,

ICM Partners is a good example of how the back-to-office effort will play out once health officials offer the green light for people to gather en masse. Just a handful of its most essential workers are in office.

Academy Awards show is scheduled to be hosted from a train station in downtown Los Angeles to allow for social distancing amid the pandemic, a report has said. According to Deadline, an email has confirmed that parts of the Oscars ceremony will be held in both the Union Station in downtown Los Angeles alongside its usual venue, the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

The 2021 Academy Awards will take place on April 25 with a live show from multiple locations in Los Angeles, but there will be limited attendees allowed at the show.

For years, specialty films have counted on an Oscar best picture nomination to provide a major boost at the box office. This time around, analysts are stumped as to how much the top nominees will benefit, considering that the box office has yet to recover from the pandemic.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAs Italy’s film and TV industry forges ahead after bearing the brunt of the pandemic in 2020, the Filming Italy — Los Angeles fest, which is a bridgehead between Italy and Hollywood, is pulling out all the stops to drive and promote the country’s restart effort.After Filming Italy miraculously managed to hold its sister shindig as a physical edition on the island of Sardinia last summer, the upcoming March 18-21 Los Angeles event will be mostly online.

claiming that “the best bagels are in California.”“I am personally peeved. If California wants to go head-to-head with me, I am ready,” said Brooklyn-raised bagel-man Scot Rossillo, 55, owner of Park Slope’s the Bagel Store.Rossillo says the Big Apple’s bagel superiority goes beyond New York’s famously soft water, which weakens gluten and increases chewiness.

Ellise Shafer administratorA COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Pasadena, Calif., set to take place on Thursday was cancelled on Tuesday after the majority of its time slots were filled with those who work in Hollywood and the media.As reported by the Los Angeles Times, 900 of the clinic’s 1,500 vaccination slots were claimed by those ineligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in the state of California.