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Hollywood's major studios and guilds are extending their return-to-work agreement another three months. The current contract was scheduled to expire April 30, but the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and the industry's top guilds — includingSAG-AFTRA, IATSE, the DGA, the Teamsters and the Basic Crafts — have agreed to keep the current protocols in place for another few months.

Anne Douglas, a film publicist who first met Kirk Douglas on the Paris set ofAct of Lovein 1953 and married him a year later, died Thursday. She was 102.

Three young Dubliners find their post-graduation confusion worsened by a nearby tragedy in Here Are the Young Men, an adaptation of Rob Doyle's debut novel directed by model-turned-actor Eoin Macken. Benefitting from a relatively high-profile cast (especially Queen's Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy, though she's not the focus here), the picture has enough polish to draw a small audience.

Multiple arrests have been made in the case of Lady Gaga's French bulldogs, which were stolen in a violent February altercation where her assistant was shot, according to Los Angeles police. Five suspects were taken into custody: James Jackson, 18; Jaylin White, 19; Lafayette Whaley, 27;Harold White, 40; andJennifer McBride, 50, according to police.

STXfilms has promoted Keri Moore to president of marketing after she oversaw creative advertising for STX releasesHustlers,The Upside,The Gentlemen,The Gift and more recently Greenland. Moore has served as executive vp since the studio launched in 2017.

British actress Emma Laird, who just booked a starring role opposite Jeremy Renner in Mayor of Kingstown, has signed with APA for representation in all areas. The signing is major one for Laird, who has no feature or series experience, and for the agency, which beat out four other agencies for the opportunity to sign the actress.

Joe Rogan on Thursday addressed comments he previously made on his popular Spotify podcast in which he said young, healthy people should skip the COVID-19 vaccination. The remarks came under fire, even being addressed byAnthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease doctor.

Amazon is finally shedding some light on how many of the company's users watch Amazon Prime Video programming.

Twitter on Thursday unveiled a first-quarter earnings report that offered a window on user growth for the social media platform during the coronavirus pandemic. The social media platform said its number of logged-in users, known as monetizable daily active users, stood at 199 million for the quarter, which was up 7 million users compared to the fourth quarter that ended with 192 million DAUs, and 189 million daily users at the end of the third quarter.

BAFTA has suspended actor Doctor Who actor Noel Clarke from its membership in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations by 20 women reported in The Guardian newspaper on Thursday. "In light of the allegations of serious misconduct regarding Noel Clarke in The Guardian this evening, BAFTA has taken the decision to suspend his membership and the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award immediately and until further notice," BAFTA said in a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter.

CODA writer-director Sian Heder is reteaming with Patrick Wachsberger's Picture Perfect Federation for a movie adaptation of Sarah Lotz's upcoming novel Impossible. Heder will write and direct the project, with Picture Perfect Federation producing alongside Black Label Media and Marsh Entertainment.

Jennifer Lopez is famous for her glow, and somehow her complexion seems to only get more flawless with time. While her genes play a big part, she also has skincare secrets which she's channeled into her luxurious line JLo Beauty, which she launched earlier this year.

SoEndeavor is a public company. Now what? The owner of WME, IMG and UFC raised more than half a billion dollars in an IPO this week, two years after it first embarked on a path to the public markets.

Katy Perry presented her new line of Katy Perry Shoes in an Amazon Live video on Wednesday — like QVC but for the streaming age.

After all the accusations, conspiracy theories and general misinformation regarding the origins of the coronavirus in China, the sensitive, humanistic Wuhan Wuhan does a fine job depoliticizing the topic. It shows how the Chinese response to the virus outbreak was very similar to those in hospitals around the world, though its interest for viewers, perhaps, lies in ferreting out some of the minor differences.

One of Hollywood’s most prolific and powerful film and television writer-director-producers, J.J. Abrams, has floated his plush yet comfortable Pacific Palisades, California, home on the market with a by-any-standard prodigious price tag pushing up on $22 million.

The 2021 Tribeca Festival will host the world premieres of a number of upcoming TV series, including Peacock's Dr. Death, Starz's Blindspotting and the second season of OWN's David Makes Man.

As more and more superstar acts are born inside laptop-lit bedrooms, Dave Grohl remains the face of that old-fangled tradition of picking up an instrument, practicing it till your fingers bleed, then heading out on the open road in a beat-up van to share your songs with the world. The former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters frontman, 52, has captured that experience in What Drives Us, his new doc featuring Ringo Starr, St.

SAG-AFTRA announced Thursday the launch ofanew sexual harassment reporting platform as well as the first industry-wide accreditation for intimacy coordinator training programs and registry. SAG-AFTRA's Intimacy Coordinator training accreditation and registry programs aim to expand the number of experienced professionals to serve in this role nationwide.

May Wynn, the 1950s starlet who had a supporting role in the acclaimed Humphrey Bogart military legal thriller The Caine Mutiny, where she adopted her character's name for her stage name, has died. She was 93.

Byron Allen's Allen Media Broadcasting has acquired seven divestiture TV stations from Gray Television for $380 million. Gray spun the TV stations off as part of a separate deal to acquire Quincy Media for $925 million.

The Walt Disney Co. has named Paul Richardson as chief human resources officer effective July 1,the company said Thursday.

GOT7's Mark Tuan, a Chinese American rapper, singer, model and gamer based in Los Angeles, has signed with CAA. Tuan has appeared on international TV shows like Battles Likes on KBS World, Law of the Jungle on SBS, I Can See Your Voice on Mnet and All for One on Youku.

Fox Corp. is looking to turbocharge its digital business.

A Jeopardy! winner's hand gesture from Tuesday night's show has sparked a protest by former contestants demanding an apology from producers. A group of 467 purported former participants on the show posted an open letter on Medium on Wednesday accusing the syndicated game show's producers of failing to catch what they allege is a white power hand gesture.

Ken Jeong is set to host a television and streaming event called "See Us Unite for Change," which will celebrate the Asian-American experience during AAPI Heritage Month and in the wake of violence affecting the community. The event, which will air on Friday, May 21 at 5 p.m.

Ahead of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Birds of Prey actress Ella Jay Basco and rapper Ruby Ibarra have released their Asian self-love music video "Gold." The video begins with Basco starring in a 1950's black and white commercial advertising a "Brown Be Gone" skin whitening soap to "wash the brown away." Midway through the commercial, the model played by Basco begins to panic when hearing the potential side effects of using the soap, such as "complicity" and "inauthenticity." As the

Tom Bilyeu and Lisa Bilyeu, founders of Impact Theory Studios, have signed with A3 Artists Agency. The duo inked a deal for overall representation, with a focus on scripted, unscripted, digital and live events businesses.

The Weeknd leads all finalists for the 2021 Billboard Music Awards with 16 nods. The singer is up for top artist, top male artist, top Hot 100 artist, top streaming songs artist and top song sales artist.

T-Street — the production banner run by director Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman — and Knives Out studio MRC Films have launched a new label to produce low-budget films from emerging filmmakers. The venture, which was announced by the T-Street principals and MRC's Brye Adler and Jonathan Golfman, will produce three to four features a year from up-and-coming filmmakers, with creative and financial backing from the companies.

Moviepass co-founder Stacy Spikes revealed on Thursday his latest project: PreShow Interactive, a mobile app that offers gamers the ability to exchange their time spent engaging with branded content to unlock in-game currency without interrupting their playing experience. The currency that players unlock may be applied to many popular games across multiple consoles.

For many, Scotland-based Mark Millar is living the comic book creator's dream. As a writer, he worked for both DC and Marvel Comics — the latter of which even saw him influence the big screen by making classic character Nick Fury a Black man.

In Netflix's romance/tech sci-fi series The One, Amir El-Masry — also recently seen on the HBO/BBC financial drama Industry and now appearing as the lead in Focus Features' darkly comic refugee film Limbo — played a DNA expert called Ben.

The finalists for the 2021 Billboard Music Awards are being announced at 11 a.m. ET/8 a.m.

A muddled execution undercuts laudable ambitions in the latest effort from director William Brent Bell, who previously demonstrated his talent for turning low-budget horror films into major commercial hits with such movies as The Devil Inside and The Boy. The filmmaker mines deeper emotional terrain than usual with Separation, which attempts to inject scares into a Kramer vs.

Robert Smigel on Wednesday dropped by The Howard Stern Show, where he defended a classic Saturday Night Live sketch he wrote, which starred the late Chris Farley. Stern brought up that the Chippendales sketch — which featured Farley and the latePatrick Swayze dueling for a spot in the male striptease show — has come under fire in recent years for perhaps adding to Farley's self-destructive behavior.