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In the wake of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), Hollywood has rallied around Los Angeles-based organization Project Angel Food, which provides free meals to members of the community impacted by life-threatening illnesses. Recent donors include studio executive David Geffen, television producer and writer Chuck Lorre, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the non-profit organization behind the Golden Globe® Awards, which this week announced a donation of $100,000.

Showrunner and writer Liz Tigelaar finished shooting the last scenes of Little Fires Everywhere just minutes before Los Angeles’ Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the lockdown of the city in connection with the Covid-19 emergency. The series adapted from the eponymous novel by Celeste Ng was a passion project that she was relieved to see completed and ready to be streamed on Hulu in March 2020.

In 2008, Newsweek listed him as one of the top 50 most powerful people in the world, a list that included Obama, Oprah and Osama Bin Laden. In 2011, the Los Angeles Times called him “the biggest movie star you’ve never heard of.

In Unorthodox, the first Netflix original series in Yiddish, Shira Haas plays Esti, a young woman in a strict Hasidic community in Brooklyn who decides to flee to Berlin in search of her mother after a failed marriage puts her at odds with the group. The New York Times just called her 'a phenomenon', but this is not the first time that the Israeli actress has been celebrated for her work.

Over the years her name has become emblematic of the misogyny and homophobia practiced in Hollywood during the 1940s. During the ‘30s she was a respected director and someone who kept her private life private while maintaining a relationship with Marion Morgan, a dancer who choreographed some of her films.

For over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated actors, actresses and filmmakers. The world's largest collection of its kind - over 10,000  items- is now in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Margaret Herrick Library.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is announcing temporary measures to adjust the requirements for Golden Globe Awards eligibility due to the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic on motion picture and television distribution and exhibition. Below are the original eligibility rules for motion pictures:Official Motion Picture Screenings:  To be eligible for Golden Globe motion picture awards, an official screening of the motion picture must be arranged for all HFPA members.

“Follow your bliss” is one of the most popularly quoted phrases of the comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell, whose birthday is March 26th. His writings on mythology, story and psychology have influenced writers everywhere and filmmakers in particular.

Glynn Turman (The Wire, House of Lies, Queen Sugar) was working on the highly anticipated new season of FX’s Fargo, opposite Chris Rock, when the filming was indefinitely suspended due to the Coronavirus outbreak. He went back to his ranch outside of Los Angeles in Lake Hughes where he is now spending time with his family.

In Amazon’s new series Hunters, Logan Lerman works most of the time with Al Pacino - and he has been a huge fan of Pacino’s since childhood. “He is like the foundation for everyone’s film knowledge.