Virtual Sundance Boasts 600,000 Audience Views – Nearly 3 Times More Than 2020

There are some scheduling changes happening amid the pandemic.

Netflix Inc goes into Sunday's virtual celebration of movies and television, hosted from New York and Los Angeles by comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, with a dominant 22 film nominations but still in search of its first best movie win. That could come from period drama "Mank," about the screenwriter of "Citizen Kane," which leads with six nods, including for best drama movie, for actors Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried, and for director David Fincher.

Conventions and live events are playing it safe when it comes to bookings in the Los Angeles area, according to a report from the Board of the Dept. of Convention and Tourism Development Commissioners.

Also Read: Hollywood Mass Layoffs in 2020 Open Door for a New Breed of Creative Exec: 'Adapt or Die'While production suffered the most extreme losses, all of the creative economy lost jobs after the pandemic hit.

Lady Gaga's dog walker was shot and wounded by a gunman in an attempt to steal the singer’s French bulldogs on Wednesday in Hollywood. Los Angeles police department is currently on the lookout for the dogs and the gunman.

California’s Covid-19 death toll officially surpassed 50,000 on Thursday, according to the state’s virus tracking board. Thursday’s total of 50,991 was a big jump up from Wednesday’s due to a massive backlog deaths in Los Angeles County were tallied. Thursday’s tally becomes the state’s highest daily death toll of the pandemic.

Lady Gaga wants her two dogs returned safely. The 34-year-old singer-actress is currently in Italy filming her new movie but in Los Angeles, her French bulldogs, Gustave and Koji, have been stolen. A source tells ET that Gaga is offering a $500,000 reward for the return of her dogs, «no questions asked.» Anyone who has the dogs can email [email protected] two dogs were kidnapped by an at-large attacker, who shot Gaga's dog walker on Sierra Bonita Avenue at 9:40 p.m.

Lady Gaga is offering a $500,000 reward for the safe return of her two stolen French Bulldogs.

Jordan Moreau Lady Gaga is offering a $500,000 reward after her two dogs were stolen in a violent robbery on Wednesday night, a source confirmed to Variety.A representative from the Los Angeles Police Department told Variety that a man was shot during a robbery around 9:40 p.m. on Wednesday night using a semi-automatic handgun.

Los Angeles health officials confirmed that the county had crossed 20,057 covid-related deaths on Tuesday. 157 new deaths and 2,091 new cases of confirmed COVID-19. In total, Public Health has identified 1,183,378 positive cases of COVID-19 across all areas of L.A.

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Whirlybird from A&E IndieFilms. The doc, which premiered at last year’s Sundance, is the feature debut of Matt Yoka. It follows a husband-and-wife news helicopter team who covered some of Los Angeles’ most historic events.

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Manori Ravindran International EditorGlobal distributor, producer and streamer Mubi has snapped up major European markets for hot Sundance title “Pleasure,” which delves into the world of the porn industry in Los Angeles.The service has acquired all rights to the provocative film in the U.K., Ireland, Italy and Turkey.

A24 has picked up the U.S. rights to Swedish writer-director Ninja Thyberg's porn industry drama Pleasure after its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

A24 announced it acquired U.S. Rights to the Ninja Thyberg-directed 2021 Sundance drama Pleasure. This was a film that had been announced as a Cannes title for 2020 before the fest was canceled because of Covid, and made its debut as part of virtual Sundance.