Inkoo Kang: “Heartbroken by all the THR losses today. Can’t believe there’s more to come.”

Cinemark Lays Off 17,500 Hourly Workers

“McMahon said she planned to raise $300 million to help Trump get reelected. She and her husband have also personally donated millions.”
Could Hundreds Of Millions Toward Trump Support Have Influenced Florida Choice To Dub McMahon Family’s WWE Wrestling An “Essential Service” Without Competition From Other Sports?

“It remains unclear when or if the Cannes Film Festival will happen this year, but the market is set to take place online, kicking off late June,”

Domhnall Gleeson: “It’s such a funny thing to throw more praise at Phoebe. But who the fuck needs to read more people speaking about how unbelievably amazing she is? Yeah fuck it, let’s go big and give people something to read about. She hits people; she’s got body odour. I’m not really sure where to go with this. No, she didn’t hit anyone that I saw, and as far as I can remember she smelt lovely.”

Billboard, Hollywood Reporter Slash 35% Of Newsroom Jobs: “It Will Be Run On Fumes”

“In the wake of pandemic, Valence Media has decided to lay off their entire web IT staff. Effective today. The online Billboard Charts are essentially perfect, so IT staff are no longer needed. Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life…”#SavingABuckAtYourExpense”
Valence IT Department Leaves Message

Fortune Lays Off About 10% of Staff, Executives to Take 30% Pay Cuts

March 28: “Fortune’s new landlord, Vornado Realty Trust, hired TPG Architecture to design a new space for the magazine, which is famous for its list of the 500 most profitable companies in the U.S. For the first time, Fortune was able to design its own office, rather than accepting the aesthetic of its longtime parent company, Time Inc. The business magazine’s leadership wanted its new offices to look high-end enough to host an interview with a Fortune 500 company exec but still embody the casual and hip vibe of a typical media company.”

Vox Media To Furlough 100 At New York, The Verge, Eater, SB Nation, Recod?

Amazon Gives Affiliates, Including Media, One-Week Notice Of Slashed Fees

Los Angeles Times Announces Furloughs And Pay Cuts For Non-Union Employees

Launch Of ComcastNBCUniversal “Peacock” Streaming Offering Goes Comcast With Little Original Programming Anticipated

Slate Cuts Employee Pay

Long may you illumine space with your marvellous appearances, delays
and enunciations, and may the money of the world glitteringly cover you
as you rest after a long day under the kleig lights with your faces
in packs for our edification, the way the clouds come often at night
but the heavens operate on the star system. It is a divine precedent
you perpetuate! Roll on, reels of celluloid, as the great earth rolls on!

Lost: “Wynn Handman was a giant of theater–a legendary acting teacher, founder of the American Place Theatre, champion of talent. His essential career made so many other essential careers possible. He was 97 and will be long and well remembered.”

Remembering John Prine: “He was able to imagine what heaven would be like just by imagining the parts of his life that he loved. Because for him, heaven was not that different from his regular life. And that’s incredible.”

“I wasn’t particularly scared of getting the virus, and I wasn’t thinking yet about the economic realities that were likely to hit. I just didn’t understand what I was living in and I wanted to skip it. I wanted another option.But this pandemic doesn’t give options. There isn’t anywhere to go to get away from it. It’s everywhere, it’s invisible, and it’s nowhere, too. I might be carrying the coronavirus; I might have had it; I might not have been infected, or I could currently be infected right now, even though I feel fine. I was in college when 9/11 happened and a recession hit after I graduated, but neither of those “realities” — which were startling and scary and felt like moments when ordinary life had been “punctured” — had the pervasive and eerie feel of this one.”

“You decide to watch ‘Entourage’ over some other thing that is equally empty, you’re making a choice to experience despair in its most soul-destroying form, okay? And that is a choice that people should examine, but they don’t. If you choose to watch ‘The Office,’ you’re also tacitly choosing despair. Because the whole point of ‘The Office’ is: it’s cute how much we suck. ‘Friends,’ too. I’m not suggesting that these people have to have a Bergman marathon, but if you’re going to choose to do that with ‘Friends,’ it’s like sitting down and eating three pints of ice cream. Cinema is better. There’s something in the nature of episodic TV that is itself a form of despair. It goes on and on, regardless of quality.”

LOST: John Conway, 82, Inventor of the Game of Life

SoftBank “Vision Fund,” Investor In Faltering Startups Like WeWork, OneWeb, Uber, Didi, OYO and Grab, Anticipates Loss Of $17 Billion

“For the entertainment industry, the crisis has provided an unwelcome lesson in the hidden perils of working in the high-touch, densely populated environments required of movie and TV production. It has shed light on one of Hollywood’s dirtiest secrets: the often questionable sanitary conditions that have long existed on sets. Lackadaisical hygiene has been accepted as part of the job. While production was shut down in an effort to slow the virus, the global pandemic has stirred debate on established cleanliness practices, raising broader questions and concerns about the definition of safe work spaces in Hollywood, particularly among production crews who are often the most exposed. Current circumstances have forced many to consider whether there must be a choice between budgets and well-being. Among the factors that have contributed to lax hygiene standards, according to several crew members, is location shooting. Sound stages have well established utilities infrastructure, including multiple restrooms and sinks, hot running water, janitorial staffs that regularly clean and, often, medical staff.”