Post-Production Biz Facing COVID Catastrophe, Says ‘Game Of Thrones’ VFX Outfit

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Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe Los Angeles County Department of Public Health today confirmed 37 new deaths and 2,770 new cases of COVID-19. To date, the department has identified 153,041 positive cases of COVID-19 across all areas of LA County, and a total of 4,084 deaths.Of the 37 deaths, 25 people were over the age of 65, nine people who died were between 41 and 65 years old and two people who died were between the ages 18 and 40.

Ahead of GDC Summer, the all-digital iteration of the Game Developers Conference, the results of the organization's State of the Game Industry report were released Thursday and found that 70 percent of pooled developers switched from offices to remote setups as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Among those, nearly half reported a loss in productivity and others noted challenges in virtual collaboration and creativity.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish said most employees won’t be returning to offices this year as the company rethinks its plans amid a COVID-19 resurgence and focuses on restarting production, which he called “critical.”Production, he said in a memo to staff on Wednesday, “generally has to be done in person and is the lifeblood of our business.”“Unfortunately, we have seen recent spikes in infection rates in many areas across the U.S.  This obviously makes our

Game of Thrones actor Richard Brake has said he wishes the show ended with The Night King killing everyone.Brake, who played the show’s antagonist until season six when a scheduling conflict meant the part had to be recast, explained that he was still happy, however, with the way Game of Thrones ended for his character.“I wanted him to wipe everyone out, I was hoping for that,” Brake told NME. “But you can’t always get what you want!”He added: “But I love the fact that Arya killed him.

Naman Ramachandran U.K. broadcasters BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky, STV and ITN, along with the Association for Commercial Broadcasters and On-Demand Services, and producers’ body Pact have developed new guidance for producing television safely when cast and crew need to work more closely than two meters apart.A five-page document that adds to the guidance published in May calls for the establishment of “close contact cohorts” and weekly testing for this group.

Bird Box is in development, according to the novelist whose work inspired the original movie.Josh Malerman’s 2014 post-apocalyptic novel was adapted by Netflix for a feature-length film which starred the likes of Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, and Machine Gun Kelly.

Back in the before times of 2018, before the lockdown, Netflix had one of its biggest hit ever with the movie “Bird Box,” starring Sandra Bullock. Now, the author of the novel “Bird Box” is based on said that Netflix is now working on a sequel to its hit horror film.

The U.K. box office came back to life — very, very quietly — this weekend following more than three months of closure, with Disney's Onward claiming the first post-lockdown crown.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorNicky Sargent and Vikki Dunn, the founders of post-production house The Farm Group, are to be presented with the Special Award at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards on July 17.The pair will receive the prize, one of BAFTA’s highest honors, after founding their company in 1998 and working on some of the biggest shows on British television, including recent hits The Salisbury Poisonings and I May Destroy You.BAFTA CEO Amanda Berry said: “From the very beginning, The Farm

August Alsina is getting candid about his past rumored relationship with Jada Pinkett Smith. While speaking with radio personality Angela Yee, discussing his new album The Product III: stateofEMERGEncy, the 27-year-old singer claimed he was linked to the actress, and that Will Smith gave him his blessing. ET has reached out to Pinkett Smith’s rep for comment.

Jada Pinkett Smith. While speaking with radio personality Angela Yee, discussing his new album, the 27-year-old singer claimed he was linked to the actress, and that Will Smith gave him his blessing.

Taylor Swift has spoken out about the US census, saying it erases transgender and non-binary people.The census collects data on every person living within the United States and its five territories, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.During a speech for Pride Live’s celebration of Stonewall Day, Swift called out the makers of the census for only offering two gender options.

sudden production shutdown was the fault of the testing lab, which “produced several false positives” in onsite COVID-19 testing.They’ve since switched labs and have no legitimate positive cases of the coronavirus, a spokeswoman for Bell-Phillip Television told TheWrap.