Studios and Hollywood Unions Extend Talks on Return to Work Rules

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe major studios and entertainment unions confirmed Monday that they have agreed to relax the COVID protocols that have governed physical production for the last 10 months.But with COVID cases again on the rise, the changes are not as sweeping as was once expected. Especially in the Los Angeles area — where the spike has been particularly dramatic — any return to “normal” is still a ways off.The L.A.

Those who knocked “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” as nothing more than a pretense for Quentin Tarantino to meticulously recreate and hang out in the 1969 Los Angeles located somewhere between his boyhood memory and imagination (like that’s a bad thing) will not be dissuaded by his new novelization of the 2019 film (our original review here), an act of uncommonly authoritative fan-fiction that goes so far as to insert mention of a li’l nine-year-old QT into its final moments.

Rebecca Davis editorThe U.S. film industry is heaving a sigh of relief that “Black Widow” is poised to become the highest grossing domestic debut of the post-pandemic era, marking America’s return to moviegoing in force.The Scarlett Johansson-starrer is projected to earn around $80 million in its North American opening weekend, beating out “F9” last month.

Val Kilmer is opening up in an upcoming documentary. The 61-year-old is set to be the subject of the documentary "VAL," which will see him reflect on his decades-long career in Hollywood and much more, including his battle with throat cancer.

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Going strong! Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez jetted off to the Hamptons one day after taking their kids to Universal Studios in Hollywood.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have been spotted visiting Universal Studios in Hollywood together. The pop star, 51, and the Hollywood actor, 48, were snapped paying a visit to the amusement park with each of their children this week.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck had a fun day of adventure to kick off the July 4th weekend!

While there are always a lot of news that comes up regarding Quentin Tarantino films, particularly when it comes to his dialogue and use of gore and violence, after the debut of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” there was a bit of a surprising controversy surrounding the filmmaker’s depiction of Bruce Lee.

If you’re following the new Quentin Tarantino press blitz for the “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” novelization, and you’re listening to all the various long podcasts he’s been on, outlining his future, you know the filmmaker’s schedule and timetable look a little something like this (aside from parenting, he’s a new father): promoting his current book (‘OUATIH’), finishing his criticism film book (part of the two-part book deal he made with Harper Perennial Publishing), and then directing and/or

The “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” novelization is out now from Random House Books, and that means director/author Quentin Tarantino is out there doing the press rounds talking to major outlets. He’s already been on Marc Maron and Bill Maher, and yesterday, Tarantino turned up on the Joe Rogan podcast on Spotify.

The mythic, epic long cut of any movie, aka when people don’t understand the difference between an assembly cut—all the footage actually shot assembled into a raw edit—and what a director would want with their final version of the best of the best material (generally much shorter than an assembly, filmmakers don’t want every frame of footage in their film, because not everything is always A+).

If you’ve been following Quentin Tarantino’s career for a while now, you are probably aware of the filmmaker’s desire to get Jennifer Lawrence in one of his films. When “The Hateful Eight” was announced, reports had Lawrence in talks for a possible role in that film.