TV Actors and Recording Artists Push for Rewrite of California Labor Law

Life goes on for the Duke of Hastings. Regé-Jean Page stepped out in North Hollywood, California, after he announced he wouldn’t be returning for season 2 of Bridgerton.

Georgia's potential loss could be New Jersey's gain. At least that's what the Garden State hopes.

Canadian-born Instagram and YouTube star Lee MacMillan has tragically passed away. The 28-year-old influencer, who was known for documenting her global travels in a van, has taken her own life after a battle with depression.

KEYT-TV in Santa Barbara, California, on Monday, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office identified MacMillan as the woman that was hit and killed by a train last week near Santa Barbara. According to the report, she was previously reported missing, and police feared she may have been suicidal.A heartbreaking post on her page Tuesday said she took her own life on Friday.«She was the brightest light, a magnetic force of nature and was loved by so so many,» the post reads.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterUniversal Studios Hollywood is back: The Universal City, Calif. theme park has set an April 16 reopening date and will be limited to California residents for the time being.

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has given a series order to drama Our Kind Of People, from writer/executive producer Karin Gist (Star, Mixed-ish) and executive producer Lee Daniels (Empire, Star). This marks the first new Fox drama series ordered for the 2021-22 season and the first series to come out of the network’s script-to-series model introduced last summer, which involves the opening of a writers room.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefJason Kothari, Hong Kong-born entrepreneur and film producer who was an executive producer on Vin Diesel-starring  “Bloodshot,” has acquired all rights to The Silent Flute, the spiritual martial arts project co-written by martial arts icon Bruce Lee in 1970.

SAG-AFTRA and several music artist coalitions are asking their members to support a California Assembly bill that would reform the state’s Labor Code to prevent production companies and record labels from holding artists signed to personal service contracts off the job market and unpaid for long periods of time. The bill, the Free Artists from Industry Restrictions (FAIR) Act, was introduced by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego).

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAT&T will start counting streaming video used by HBO Max — and other telco-owned apps — toward wireless subscribers’ monthly data-usage caps. Previously, AT&T had provided unlimited usage of such services over its own networks for no extra change.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterA bill in the California Legislature to promote diversity in TV and film would also help a housing developer who wants to build a $200 million film studio in Banning.The bill would add Banning — a small city 90 miles east of Los Angeles — to the so-called “30-mile zone,” which is the area where producers pay lower mileage rates and per diems.

Rosamund Pike stores her many awards in a very unusual place.