SOURCE: Deadline.com | David Robb
August 10, 2020
Film and television production “is finally getting ready to start back up,” IATSE Grips Local 80 business manager Thom Davis said in his latest update on the industry’s efforts for a safe return to work.
“The major lots have brought back people to get the departments ready for production,” he said, “and some of the Independents and Commercials have commenced with production.”
Various film commissioners discuss permitting, precautions, restrictions, concerns
SOURCE: ShootOnline.com | A Shoot Staff Report
August 7, 2020
“Location, location, location.” This proverbial mantra for buying real estate also applies to the state of filming during a pandemic. So much depends on where you are–and whether rates of COVID-19 infections are high, have flattened or even better are on a downward curve. Public health and safety guidelines should evolve accordingly–and so too does film permitting, the nature of projects that are feasible and thus allowed.
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH – Official Trailer
Source: Cleveland.com | Joey Morona, cleveland.com
August 07, 2020
The cast and crew of “Judas and the Black Messiah” spent parts of three months last fall shooting the upcoming film in Cleveland and Mansfield.
Director Shaka King debuted the first trailer for the movie, about the life and assassination of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton, during a panel Thursday at the National Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists joint virtual convention.
Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield in Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) | IMDb.com
Source: Deadline.com | Dino-Ray Ramos
August 06, 2020
In the new trailer for Judas and the Black Messiah, Daniel Kaluuya, who plays the real-life iconic Black Panther revolutionary, is heard saying: “You can murder a liberator, but you can’t murder a liberation! You can murder a revolutionary, but you can’t murder a revolution! You can murder a freedom fighter but you can’t murder freedom!”
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Source: Deadline.com | Jill Goldsmith
July 20, 2020
As New York City enters Phase 4 on Monday, allowing production to ramp up, the Mayor’s Office of Film and Television today issued what it called a “plain language” guide to remaining restrictions on outdoor shoots on public property: They’re now limited to 50 people (up from 25), can’t interfere with hospitals or COVID-19 testing centers, can’t block streets, and can’t be close to restaurants with outdoor seating without the eateries’ permission.
Jordin Althaus/CBS
Over the last couple of months, the Hollywood studios successfully negotiated new collective bargaining agreements with the major guilds. But hammering out industrywide safety protocols for film and TV production during the coronavirus pandemic is proving hard to reach a consensus on.
It’s been five weeks since the Hollywood unions and guilds on June 12 released their White Paper of detailed safety guidelines that was to serve as a starting point and a blueprint in the negotiations with studios. After weeks of talks, progress has been made but there are still multiple outstanding issues that are proving difficult to overcome, which is further delaying the start of production even in locations where the pandemic is largely under control, like British Columbia, New Zealand, Hawaii, as well as New York, which today allowed film and TV production to resume.
Source: Deadline.com | Nellie Andreeva
July 17, 2020
(L-R) Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans
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DEADLINE EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from an earnings report that saw it add 10 million subscribers during the pandemic, Netflix has just set its most financially ambitious feature film so far. Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans are set to star in The Gray Man, with AGBO’s Joe & Anthony Russo directing their first blockbuster since setting the all-time global box office record with Avengers: Endgame two years ago. The intention here is to create a new franchise with a James Bond level of scale and a budget upward of $200 million.
Source: Deadline.com | Mike Fleming Jr.
July 17, 2020
Zachary Burns: Oklahoma Film + Music Office
A group of production companies, distributors, sales agents and completion bond guarantors have created a new tasks force to push for government funding and support to independent production threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The American Coalition for Independent Content Production (ACICP) said its aim is to help the industry avoid permanent loss of productions and jobs. It ncludes 25 organizations including; A24, Alcon Entertainment, Amblin Partners, Annapurna Pictures, Avalon, Bron Studios, Endeavor Content, Endless Media, Endurance Media, Film Finances, FilmNation, Gaumont, Le Grisbi, Madrona Drive, Media Guarantors Insurance Solutions, Origin Entertainment, Picturestart, Platonic Systems, Skydance Media, UniFi Completion Guarantors, Valence Media, Village Roadshow Entertainment Group, wiip, and XYZ Films.
Source: Deadline.com | Jill Goldsmith
July 16, 2020
CBS’ George Cheeks (left) and the NAACP’s Derrick Johnson
Days after CBS committed to expanding development from BIPOC, the company is teaming with the NAACP for a wide-ranging content partnership.
As part of a new, multiple-year agreement, CBS TV Studios and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will team to develop and produce scripted, unscripted and documentary content for linear and streaming platforms.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter | Lesley Goldberg
July 15, 2020
(clockwise from top left) Savanah Leaf, Jason Harper, A.V. Rockwell, Rohan Blair-Mangat, Alli Maxwell, Isiah Donté Lee, Karena Evans, Calmatic Courtesy of Change the Lens
As the film and TV industry strives to make up for its long history of deficiencies when it comes to diversity and inclusion in front of and behind the camera, over 100 Black creatives and allies in the filmmaking and advertising communities have teamed to create the Black Filmmakers Collective to launch “Change the Lens,” a new pledge to increase the number of Black workers at all levels.
Source: Deadline.com | Dino-Ray Ramos
July 9, 2020