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Showcase Cinemas, the multiplex chain owned by National Amusements, has implemented social distancing measures across its sites in the U.S. and UK in a bid to tackle the spread of coronavirus. The company is reducing audience capacity by 50% in its auditoriums to allow for vacant space between seats, and has added…

Universal joins Disney and Paramount in putting a temporary stop to its feature productions with Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World: Dominion,?Rachel Morrison’s sports drama?Fling Strong?and the Nick Stoller-directed, Judd Apatow-produced Billy Eichner comedy. These productions are either already on hiatus or pausing…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is going virtual, at least that seems to be the message in an email sent to the entire membership Friday night from president David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson. The measures have actually been taking place since Wednesday, including all scheduled screenings for membership…

EXCLUSIVE: As Skydance Media’s staff, like many around town, split off and head to their homes to work remotely during the coronavirus climate, CEO David Ellison shared his immense gratitude in an email to them, and reassured that the studio can “weather this storm”. “Let me assure you that we are in this together…

Thousands of unionized musicians are suddenly out of work as a result of the ongoing coronavirus shutdown, and AFM president Ray Hair says that local, state and federal governments need to step up and protect them and thousands of other suddenly unemployed entertainment industry workers. Here's the statement he…

The WGA's Pension and Health office will close Monday until further notice "in order to protect our employees from possible Coronavirus/COVID-19 exposure," the PWGA said Friday. All employees in the Burbank offices “will continue to work from home and everything but their physical presence will continue as…

School districts across the world are closing because of the coronavirus, and kids will largely be confined to home to prevent exposure. So what’s a parent to do? Riding to the rescue is the?Walt Disney Company, which will make Frozen 2 available in the US and internationally on its Disney+ subscription streaming…

Allen Bellman, one of the last links to the early days of Captain America in comic books, died March 9 after a short illness. He was 95 and lived in Florida, according to an announcement posted to Facebook by San Diego Comic Fest. “Last year we hosted Allen as our Golden Age Guest of Honor. He was a kind man and…

Sean Patrick Flanery (a Daytime Emmy award winner for Amazon’s drama series The Bay) is set to star alongside Abigail Hawk (Blue Bloods), Weston Cage Coppola (Circus Kane), Mark Dacascos (John Wick 3: Parabellum) and Michael Jai White (Spawn) in Assault On VA-33, an indie action thriller directed by Christopher Ray…

UPDATED with closing numbers: The stock market had one of its best days Friday after one of its worst the day before, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up by almost 2,000 points, or 9.36%. Investors have been killing stocks as the coronavirus pandemic threatens global growth and the health of U.S. companies with…

I've been worried this week about my lagging talent for “social distancing,” but the release of new data has spurred a vital shift in attitude: I am not a victim of dire news events, I now realize, but rather am riding the wave of the future. “Distancing” has improved my perspective, even if I am locked out of my…

UPDATED, Friday midday: Don’t blame the recent 50% caps that big chains AMC and Regal just put on their auditorium capacity, but according to estimates it appears some hesitation by moviegoers is setting in at the weekend box office. Not to mention that the fresh product on the marquee largely wasn’t ever going to…