Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022

Is anyone going to CES this year? 

A long-simmering question in the tech world will finally get its answer as the influential gadget show returns to the Las Vegas Strip after a hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We know it will be a smaller show this year, for obvious reasons...

Friday, Oct. 29, 2021

Director Orlando von Einsiedel has an innate knack--and affinity--for finding and following a small story with a limited number of protagonists and allowing that story to unfold to reveal bigger meanings and issues. But as we all have in one way or another had to adapt during the COVID-19 crisis...

Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021

In March, as claims about the dangers and ineffectiveness of coronavirus vaccines spun across social media and undermined attempts to stop the spread of the virus, some Facebook  employees thought they had found a way to help. 

By altering how posts about vaccines are ranked in people's...

Tuesday, Sep. 21, 2021

Jake Gyllenhaal was driving when a COVID-19 supervisor called and told him to pull the car over.

This was in November 2020, when U.S. cases were skyrocketing and Gyllenhaal was days away from starting shooting on "The Guilty,"  a thriller about a demoted Los Angeles police detective (...

Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021

James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan didn’t know one another before this year. But the two actors got very familiar very quickly thanks to the new film “Together,” a cutting examination of a failing relationship during the pandemic only held together by their 10-year-old son.

Armed with acerbic...

Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021

Facebook said Tuesday that it has removed hundreds of accounts linked to a mysterious advertising agency operating out of Russia that sought to pay social media influencers to smear COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and AstraZeneca.

A network of 65 Facebook accounts and 243 Instagram...

Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021

Moviegoing, once expected to be closer to semi-normal levels by now, continues to be battered by the pandemic, the delta variant of the coronavirus and in-home streaming. The latest casualty: James Gunn's "The Suicide Squad," a critically acclaimed, carnage-ridden would-be smash that...

Friday, Jul. 16, 2021

If all goes well for NBC Universal over the next several weeks, Americans will be buzzing about the Olympic performances of Simone Biles, Gabby Thomas, Kevin Durant or some unexpected star.

The year-delayed Tokyo Olympics officially opens with NBC's telecast of the opening ceremony on...

Thursday, Jul. 1, 2021

The Directors Guild of America (DGA), International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) and the Basic Crafts, and Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), together with the Alliance of Motion...

Friday, Jun. 4, 2021

As the pandemic-caused shutdown starts to loosen throughout the country, the content creation industry looks to recover. Production has already returned in assorted locales with relatively minimal restrictions and the promise is that with each passing week, we will get closer to filmmaking...

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