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Two Staffers In California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Office Test Positive For Coronavirus As Newsom Is Evasive About His Own Testing History

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Two Staffers In California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Office Test Positive For Coronavirus As Newsom Is Evasive About His Own Testing History Just days after President Donald Trump and dozens of officials close to him tested positive for coronavirus, Governor Gavin Newsom revealed on Wednesday that two staffers in his office have been infected. Those infected were an intern and a staffer at one of the state’s agencies. He promised to “Both individuals not working directly our […] Go to Source
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Jessica Shulman Joins Literate As Manager

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Jessica Shulman Joins Literate As Manager EXCLUSIVE: Longtime TV development executive Jessica Shulman has segued to the representation business, joining Literate as a manager. At the company, where she started yesterday, Shulman will work alongside Literate partners A.B. Fischer and Dennis Kim and fellow manager Kelly Miller. Shulman has been a development executive for the past 15 years, most recently serving as […] Go to Source
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Morgan Freeman, Laurie Metcalf, Ellen Burstyn, Laura Linney, Matthew Broderick Among All-Star Line-Up For Virtual Broadway Play Series

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Morgan Freeman, Laurie Metcalf, Ellen Burstyn, Laura Linney, Matthew Broderick Among All-Star Line-Up For Virtual Broadway Play Series Morgan Freeman, Laurie Metcalf, John Malkovich, Zachary Quinto, Vanessa Williams, David Alan Grier, Elizabeth Ashley, Matthew Broderick, Lucas Hedges and Paul Mescal are among the actors who’ll take part in a benefit series of new, livestreamed stage reading productions of works by such major playwrights as Gore Vidal, David Mamet, Kenneth Lonergan and Donald Margulies. […] Go to Source
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Producer-Writer David McKenna Inks With APA

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Producer-Writer David McKenna Inks With APA EXCLUSIVE: APA has signed writer-producer and creator David McKenna. McKenna’s feature writing credits include such notable pics as New Line’s Oscar-nominated American History X and Blow, the Warner Bros. Sylvester Stallone movie Get Carter, Sony’s 2003 reboot of SWAT starring Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez and LL Cool J. In television, McKenna’s credits also include […] Go to Source
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Sandra Oh To Star in Stage 6 Films’ Supernatural Horror Pic ‘Umma’ With Sam Raimi Producing

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Sandra Oh To Star in Stage 6 Films’ Supernatural Horror Pic ‘Umma’ With Sam Raimi Producing EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures’ Stage 6 Films has acquired worldwide rights to Raimi Productions and Starlight Media’s supernatural horror film Umma, starring Golden Globe winner Sandra Oh, who also serves as executive producer. Iris K. Shim, wrote the screenplay and will make her feature film directing debut, making Umma the first horror studio film written and directed […] Go to Source
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Abigail Lawrie, Tom Felton, Val Kilmer To Star In ‘Canyon Del Muerto’, A Biopic About Archaeologists Ann Axtell Morris

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Abigail Lawrie, Tom Felton, Val Kilmer To Star In ‘Canyon Del Muerto’, A Biopic About Archaeologists Ann Axtell Morris Abigail Lawrie (Amazon’s Tin Star, The Man with the Iron Heart), Tom Felton (Harry Potter franchise, Ophelia), and Val Kilmer (upcoming Top Gun: Maverick, Heat) have signed on to star in Canyon Del Muerto, a film about the life of Ann Axtell Morris, one of America’s first female archaeologists and a co-discoverer of North America’s […] Go to Source
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IFC Midnight Picks Up Supernatural Horror Movie ‘The Vigil’ From Blumhouse

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IFC Midnight Picks Up Supernatural Horror Movie ‘The Vigil’ From Blumhouse EXCLUSIVE: IFC Midnight has acquired U.S. rights to filmmaker Keith Thomas’ supernatural horror feature debut The Vigil after a bidding war for the pic. The movie, which is billed as having a Hasidic Jewish twist, made its world premiere at TIFF 2019 in the Midnight Madness Section and was slotted for SXSW 2020. Blumhouse previously owned the […] Go to Source
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Utopia Acquires Improv Comedy Docu ‘For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close’

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Utopia Acquires Improv Comedy Docu ‘For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close’ EXCLUSIVE: Utopia Distribution has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the documentary For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close directed by Heather Ross (Girls on the Wall). The film chronicles the titular comedy trailblazer who became an improv comedy legend. The film is slated for a digital release in 2021. The film will feature interviews […] Go to Source
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Disney Urged By Investor Daniel Loeb To Ditch Shareholder Dividend And Use That Money To Fund Streaming

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Disney Urged By Investor Daniel Loeb To Ditch Shareholder Dividend And Use That Money To Fund Streaming Activist investor Daniel Loeb, whose Third Point owns a small stake in Disney, is urging the media giant to ditch its shareholder dividend and re-route those funds to streaming. “Beyond bringing additional subscribers onto the platform, increased velocity of dedicated content production will deliver several knock-on benefits spread across your existing base including elevated engagement, […] Go to Source
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Non-Fiction Studio XTR Secures $17.5M Investment From Ex-Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh To Bolster Doc Plans

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Non-Fiction Studio XTR Secures $17.5M Investment From Ex-Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh To Bolster Doc Plans EXCLUSIVE: XTR, the non-fiction studio behind films including wrestling doc You Cannot Kill David Arquette and the upcoming Magic Johnson feature doc, has secured a multi-million dollar investment from former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. The company, which was set up by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and RYOT co-founder Bryn Mooser, has secured $17.5M and will allocate money […] Go to Source
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Poorest areas of England four times as likely to face lockdown as richest

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Poorest areas of England four times as likely to face lockdown as richest Analysis of official figures shows most deprived areas are bearing brunt of second wave of CovidCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageEngland’s poorest communities are nearly four times as likely to face lockdown restrictions as the wealthiest areas, a Guardian analysis has found, as local leaders warned of a “winter of dangerous discontent” in the north of England without urgent financial support.A study of official figures shows a wide disparity in the resurgence of coronavirus across the country, with the most deprived areas bearing the brunt of the second wave. Continue reading... Go to Source
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Met police pay compensation to man fathered by undercover officer

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Met police pay compensation to man fathered by undercover officer Force pays confidential sum to man who discovered at the age of 26 that his father, Bob Lambert, was a police officer rather than a leftwing activistScotland Yard has apologised and paid substantial compensation to a man who was fathered by an undercover police officer who formed a long-term relationship with his mother in the 1980s in order to spy on political campaigners.The Metropolitan police has been compelled to pay the confidential sum after the man said in a lawsuit that he suffered psychiatric damage after discovering, at the age of 26, that his father was not the committed leftwing protester he had been led to believe. Continue reading... Go to Source
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White House doctor says Trump has been Covid symptom-free for 24 hours – live

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White House doctor says Trump has been Covid symptom-free for 24 hours – live Cuomo calls Trump Covid response worst failure since Pearl Harbor Democrats outraged as Trump halts Covid stimulus talksWhite House Covid outbreak overshadows VP debateWhat we know and what we don’t about Trump’s healthUS hits 7.5m coronavirus cases according to Johns Hopkins trackerSign up for Fight to Vote – our weekly US election newsletter 6.56pm BST Peter Alexander of NBC News reports that Attorney General William Barr “continues to test negative for the coronavirus and he’s at the Department of Justice this afternoon and ‘taking precautions’, per a Department of Justice spokesperson – Barr has been tested six times since Friday”.Barr attended the White House Rose Garden introduction of supreme court nomi...
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Only 3% sugar cut out from food products in three years, PHE finds

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Only 3% sugar cut out from food products in three years, PHE finds Public Health England study likely to accelerate calls for further measures such as sugar taxWhat is England’s sugar target and why has the food industry missed it?The food industry has cut out only 3% of sugar from supermarket, cafe and restaurant products over the last three years, according to a damning report from Public Health England that has triggered calls for taxes or other compulsory measures to be introduced.PHE launched its flagship sugar reduction programme in 2016 with a mission to help reduce childhood obesity levels by introducing a voluntary target for the food industry to remove 20% of sugar by 2020. But the third year of data, gathered before the coronavirus outbreak – suggests the target is unattainab...
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I raised concerns about Charlie Elphicke 15 years ago, says ex-colleague

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I raised concerns about Charlie Elphicke 15 years ago, says ex-colleague Lawyer who worked with Elphicke before he became MP says he was known as ‘office sex-pest’Concerns about the behaviour of the disgraced former Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke were raised with a prestigious UK law firm he worked for before entering politics, according to a lawyer who accuses him of sexual harassment.Elphicke was jailed last month for sexual assault. Fifteen years ago, a former colleague cited Elphicke’s conduct as her reason for leaving Reed Smith LLP. She now wonders if others would not have suffered had his behaviour been “nipped in the bud”. Continue reading... Go to Source
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Anita Hill-Led Hollywood Commission Finds “Bias Gap” In Hollywood; Women Twice As Likely To Experience Discrimination

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Anita Hill-Led Hollywood Commission Finds “Bias Gap” In Hollywood; Women Twice As Likely To Experience Discrimination The latest report from the Anita Hill-led Hollywood Commission has found a “remarkable bias gap” among workers in the entertainment industry, with industry women across all demographics “roughly twice as likely as their male counterparts to experience every form of biased or unfair behavior.” The report also found that less than half (49%) of the […] Go to Source
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Apple TV+ Lands Natural History Series ‘Earthsound’ From Offspring Films

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Apple TV+ Lands Natural History Series ‘Earthsound’ From Offspring Films EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has discovered its next natural history series – a project that uses the latest audio technology to tell wildlife stories. The streamer has ordered 12-part series Earthsound from British production company Offspring Films. The half-hour series uses audio technology and cinematic 360 sound design to reveal the unexpected, unfamiliar and untold natural […] Go to Source
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Former WME Partner Mark Itkin Joins Board Of ‘Hostile Planet’ Producer Plimsoll Productions

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Former WME Partner Mark Itkin Joins Board Of ‘Hostile Planet’ Producer Plimsoll Productions EXCLUSIVE: Mark Itkin, former WME partner and a doyen of the international formats and unscripted world, has joined the board of Plimsoll Productions. Itkin, who is based in LA and New York, will work closely with CEO Grant Mansfield and VP, Production and Development Saul Goldberg as the Hostile Planet and Yellowstone Live producer focuses […] Go to Source
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Netflix Donates A Further $773,000 To Second Freelance COVID-19 Relief Fund

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Netflix Donates A Further $773,000 To Second Freelance COVID-19 Relief Fund   Netflix has donated another £600,000 ($773,000) to a second COVID-19 Recovery Fund established by the UK’s Film And TV Charity, taking its total funding for the charity to £1.75M ($2.25M). The Film And TV Charity’s second fund is aimed at helping film, television, and cinema workers worst affected by the economic wreckage of coronavirus. It […] Go to Source
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Fox News Books Set Up At HarperCollins, With Pete Hegseth, Shannon Bream Leading Initial List Of Authors

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Fox News Books Set Up At HarperCollins, With Pete Hegseth, Shannon Bream Leading Initial List Of Authors Fox News Media has set a three-book deal with corporate sibling HarperCollins, establishing a publishing imprint designed for the media company’s news personalities. Pete Hegseth and Shannon Bream will kick off the initial list of authors. Suzanne Scott, CEO of Fox News Media, announced the deal Wednesday, the 24th anniversary of Fox News Channel going […] Go to Source
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Myriad Pictures Boards Chino Moya’s Dystopian Fantasy ‘Undergods’

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Myriad Pictures Boards Chino Moya’s Dystopian Fantasy ‘Undergods’ EXCLUSIVE: Myriad Pictures has taken world rights to Undergods, UK filmmaker Chino Moya’s debut feature which had its world premiere at Fantasia in August. The pic is a journey through a foreign, futuristic world, set to an original score by Wojciech Golczewksy. Cast includes Kate Dickie (The Witch), Ned Dennehy (Mandy), Geza Rohrig (Son Of […] Go to Source
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‘Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)’: Debut Trailer For Nigerian Drama Screening At LFF

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‘Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)’: Debut Trailer For Nigerian Drama Screening At LFF EXCLUSIVE: Below, you can watch the first trailer for Eyimofe (This Is My Desire), Arie Esiri and Chuko Esir’s Nigerian drama. The film is set to have its UK premiere on October 11 at the BFI London Film Festival, marking the 60th anniversary of Nigerian independence. Marking the twin brothers’ debut directing effort, the movie was […] Go to Source
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‘Spitting Image’ Renewed For A Second Season By BritBox

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‘Spitting Image’ Renewed For A Second Season By BritBox BritBox’s reboot of British satirical puppet show Spitting Image has been renewed for a second season just days after it premiered the first episode of Season 1 online. The Avalon-produced caricature comedy will be back in fall 2021 after BritBox said its first series premiere helped boost new subscribers ten-fold compared to its average daily […] Go to Source
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‘You Cannot Kill David Arquette’ Lands UK Distribution & International Sales Deal With Blue Finch

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‘You Cannot Kill David Arquette’ Lands UK Distribution & International Sales Deal With Blue Finch EXCLUSIVE: You Cannot Kill David Arquette, the SXSW doc chronicling actor Arquette’s extraordinary life and return to professional wrestling, has been picked up for UK distribution by Blue Finch Films. The company has also acquired the project’s international sales rights ahead of the AFM. The deal sees Blue Finch expand into the sales arena for […] Go to Source
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‘Spitting Image’ Producer Says NBC Backed Out Of Series Because Of “Too Much Nervousness”

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‘Spitting Image’ Producer Says NBC Backed Out Of Series Because Of “Too Much Nervousness” Jon Thoday, the executive producer of rebooted Brit comedy Spitting Image, has revealed that NBC pulled out of the show just weeks before its premiere because of “nervousness” around its satirical content. Deadline revealed over the weekend that the puppet show would premiere on Facebook in the U.S. after Avalon was unable to secure a […] Go to Source
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UK coronavirus live: Boris Johnson faces Keir Starmer at PMQs; Scotland braced for new restrictions

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UK coronavirus live: Boris Johnson faces Keir Starmer at PMQs; Scotland braced for new restrictions Latest updates: PM faces Labour leader in parliament; Prof Stephen Reicher warns UK risks ‘squandering opportunity’ to avoid stringent lockdownNHS coronavirus tests threatened by Roche supply chain glitchLiz Truss: more lockdown measures in England would ‘set us back’Map: where are the UK’s current coronavirus hotspots?Global coronavirus updates – live 12.34pm BST Taiwo Owatemi (Lab) says Coventry is running out of brownfield sites. So where will the new homes it needs be built?Johnson says there is abundant brownfield space all over the country. He says as the planning authority for London, he knows. He says rules are making building difficult. He will turn generation rent into generatio...
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Planning changes would drastically cut affordable homes, councils say

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Planning changes would drastically cut affordable homes, councils say Building of cheaper housing could be almost halved in some areas of England, analysis suggestsClose to half of affordable homes in some of the most expensive areas of England will not be built if ministers proceed with changes to the planning system, analysis by councils suggests.The government’s proposal to scrap the duty of developers to build affordable housing on sites for up to 40 or 50 homes, would have led to 30,000 of such homes going undelivered over the last five years, according to the Local Government Association (LGA). Continue reading... Go to Source
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