Universal Television’s ‘Good Girls,’ ‘Never Have I Ever’ Extend Production Hiatus (EXCLUSIVE)

Jamie Lang As the Brazilian audiovisual sector prepares to return to shooting movies and shows after being halted by the COVID-19 pandemic, new health and safety guidelines are being implemented to prevent further spread of the disease and to protect those involved in production.To ease the burden on already hard-hit producers, Show Me The Fund, a joint venture between Brazil’s film promotion program Cinema do Brasil and Olga Rabinovich’s philanthropic support initiative Projeto Paradiso, has

EXCLUSIVE: Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s Westbrook Media is partnering with Israeli production firm Tedy Productions, known for making hit shows including the original teen drama Euphoria and game show A Star Is Born.

Ben Halpern, a publicist for Paramount, United Artists, Filmways and Universal, died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles, his family announced. He was 99.

Angelique Jackson Universal Pictures and Focus Features have juggled a couple key releases on their 2021-2022 schedule.Just a month ahead of its planned Feb.

straight to your inbox every day for freeDavid de GeaHad little to do in the first-half but made a big save from Ruben Loftus-Cheek at 2-1. Maintained concentration for when he was needed.

straight to your inbox every day for freeDavid de GeaHad little to do in the first-half but made a big save from Ruben Loftus-Cheek at 2-1. Maintained concentration for when he was needed.

straight to your inbox every day for freeDavid de GeaHad little to deal with as Burnley did not manage an attempt on target all night. Encouraged teammates.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVHulu and Blumhouse Television set their next installment of “Into the Dark”: “Tentacles,” anchored to Valentine’s Day, to premiere Feb. 12, Variety has learned exclusively.Dana Drori, Casey Deidrick, Evan Williams and Kasey Elise star in the psychosexual horror-thriller film, which comes from a story by Alexandra Pechman and Nick Antosca and a teleplay by Pechman.

Wonder Woman 1984 for the very first time.Speaking in a new interview, the actor, who plays Diana Prince and her titular alter ego in the DC movie, said she was so engrossed in it that she didn’t even think about her own involvement.“I can’t tell you about the moment in the movie that made me cry other than it happens at the very beginning,” Gadot told Hello! (via msn). “I’ve never experienced that before.

Lisa Kennedy The drama “If Not Now, When?” owes more to “Waiting to Exhale” than to the women-centric films of Tyler Perry. That’s a good thing, as well as intentional on the part of its first-time feature directors, actors Meagan Good and Tamara Bass.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterGame shows “The Price Is Right” and “Let’s Make a Deal” are each extending their holiday hiatus and pushing back return-to-production dates amid spiking COVID-19 numbers in Los Angeles County.Both Fremantle-produced daytime shows, which air on CBS, are currently slated to resume filming at the end of January.The Drew Carey-hosted “The Price Is Right” had restarted production in October at Television City after pausing in March as the coronavirus first hit Southern

EXCLUSIVE: Fremantle is the latest company to extend the holiday production hiatus on a number of its shows to protect against the latest surge in Covid-19 numbers.

The Directors Guild of America told its members Tuesday that the industry’s Covid-19 protocols “have been largely effective in catching infected individuals before they are contagious, and limiting the potential spread on set.” Still, the DGA said it is working with employers who wish to extend their year-end holiday hiatus while the pandemic peaks in Southern California and across the country.

EXCLUSIVE: In the first significant agency move of the new year, Meredith Wechter is exiting WME. Details are still being worked out, but I’m told the exit will be amicable and that she will become a manager. Wechter has been a partner at WME, and she is rumored to shortly be joining Michael Sugar’s Sugar23 as a manager and partner.

Universal Television has joined CBS Studios and Warner Bros. TV in pushing the return to production after the current holiday hiatus for shows based in Los Angeles that had been scheduled to resume filming this coming week, the week of Jan. 4..

Gal Gadot has unveiled the first trailer for National Geographic’s docuseries, “Impact”.

David Guetta has urged everyone to take the coronavirus vaccine, which he hopes will lead to a “big, mad party” in 2021.Speaking to Reuters shortly before pre-recording a charity New Year’s Eve concert outside the Louvre Museum in Paris, the French DJ and producer said he hopes everybody gets vaccinated.“I’m going to do the vaccine, and I hope people are going to do it too because I don’t see any other way to go out of this situation,” Guetta said.France is one of the countries hardest-hit by

French DJ David Guetta said he hoped everybody would get vaccinated against COVID-19, shortly before recording a charity concert outside the Louvre Museum in Paris that will be streamed on New Year’s Eve.