Economic Gains In Tentative IATSE Agreements Expected To Easily Top $500 Million

AFI FEST 2021 announced today the films that received this year’s Jury and Audience awards. The Grand Jury Award winners for Live Action and Animated Short will be eligible for the 2021 Best Live Action Short and Best Animated Short Academy Awards®. The Jury was composed of film curator and writer Kiva Reardon; Amanda Salazar, head of programming and acquisitions at Argo; and writer/director Angel Kristi Williams.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe IATSE Basic Agreement ratification passed on Monday by the narrowest of margins, with a few hundred votes in two guilds deciding the outcome.A bare majority of the 40,000-odd members of the 13 West Coast locals voted to reject the agreement — with 50.4% voting no and 49.6% voting yes. But the union’s contracts are ratified based on a delegate system, with delegates awarded based on the majority vote within each local.By that measure, the contract was approved by a vote of 256 to 188.

Chris Willman Music WriterSummer Walker has landed atop the Billboard 200 album chart for the first time, but the most remarkable honor for the week may belong to the group landing in the No. 2 spot.

Kourtney Kardashian, 42, is looking incredible in two of her latest social media pics! The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star rocked a black crop top and matching sheer mini skirt while posing in her closet for mirror selfies on Friday. Her outfit, which was from PrettyLittleThing and included a skirt from the PLT x Stassie collection, also had one black arm sleeve, and she played around with her bob hairstyle while holding up her phone for the pics.

EXCLUSIVE: IATSE’s largest local, the International Cinematographers Guild Local 600, was one of five Los Angeles-based locals that voted to reject the union’s new film and TV contract, with eight other locals providing the margin needed for ratification.

Demi Rose sent temperatures soaring as she posed in a plunging see-through top in a series of sizzling snaps on Instagram.The star showcased her ample cleavage in the sheer shirt and bondage-style bra in a series of shots from her PrettyLittleThing photo shoot in Los Angeles on Sunday.The 26-year-old looked sensational as she posed up a storm in a white sheer cropped shirt that showcased her assets and flaunted her tiny waist.Demi portrayed a sexy studious look going full glam with her makeup opting for a heavy blush on the cheeks and bronze eyeshadow.She accessorised the look with a pair of stylish tinted glasses, captioning the snap: “Bon appétit @prettylittlething.”Fans quickly flocked to her page to comment on the racy snaps, with one

Chris Willman Music WriterJesse Frasure was named songwriter of the year by the BMI Country Awards, which was held online for a second consecutive year in lieu of the usual CMA Awards eve gathering in Nashville. “One of Them Girls,” a Lee Brice hit, was announced as song of the year for picking up the most plays.Heated competition in the publishing sphere was evident as two companies tied for the publisher of the year honor, Sony Music Publishing Nashville and Warner Chappell Music.Warner Chappell had singularly won the BMI prize for the previous three years running, and now can claim four wins in a row, shared or not.

Adele brought CBS its second-biggest audience on Sunday evening as the singer’s Adele One Night Only special earned more than nine million viewers. In fast affiliates the CBS special drew in a 1.5 rating in the 18-49 demo and 9.60 million eyeballs. Updated numbers have the special closer to 10M with a 9.92 million count set to rise pending adjustment.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla British superstar Adele’s powerhouse voice reached 9.92 million listeners (and viewers) during CBS’ “Adele: One Night Only” special on Sunday night, making it the most-watched entertainment special since the Oscars seven months ago. These time-zone adjusted Live+Same Day fast national TV ratings from Nielsen do not include out-of-home viewing; CBS predicts that data tomorrow morning will show that the two-hour broadcast presentation will surpass the 10 million range.Promoting her upcoming and long-anticipated album “30,” the English singer-songwriter’s special on CBS delivered over seven billion potential impressions and 269,000 mentions last night on social media.

IATSE members have ratified their new film and TV contracts, averting a showdown with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers after contentious negotiations that began six months ago.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe membership of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has voted to ratify a new three-year agreement, ending the threat of the first national strike in the union’s history.The vote was unusually close, with 256 delegates voting yes on the Basic Agreement, and 188 voting no. On the Area Standards Agreement — which covers 23 locals around the country — the vote was even closer, 103-94.

Stargazers might catch a glimpse of the annual Leonid meteor shower in the night skies this week.

Playground Games is expected to push out a patch for Forza Horizon 5 this week to fix several issues with the open-world racing game.In a tweet originally posted on November 10, the developer said it was “expecting a hotfix to drop later this week that will address multiple crash, wheel and connection issues” in the game and that it would “update as soon as it’s live!”The crashes in question are of the ‘game stops working’ variety rather than the vehicular collisions that play a part in racing games. Some players have shared footage of the game utterly freezing (warning: brief flashing lights), while others have complained of the game failing to load at all.

A host of Lanarkshire restaurants are competing at the prestigious Scottish Curry Awards this evening.

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie spoke about how former President Donald Trump and First LadyMelania Trump’s reactions differed greatly when he tested positive for COVID-19. Christie spoke about what the ex-president said to him, during an appearance on The View on Monday November 15. The 59-year-old Republican Rescue author detailed what his phone calls with both Trumps were like, while he was hospitalized. 

Pop star and actress Lady Gaga on Saturday celebrated singer Britney Spears’ release from a conservatorship imposed more than a decade ago after a mental health breakdown, calling Spears an inspiration who was treated badly by the music industry.

EXCLUSIVE: Production is underway on Desert Warrior, an action packed epic feature set in 7th Century Arabia. Anthony Mackie stars with Aiysha Hart, Sharlto Copley, Ghassan Massoud, Sami Bouajila, Lamis Ammar, Géza Röhrig, and Sir Ben Kingsley. The film is shooting in Neom and Tabuk in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The script is by Wyatt, Erica Beeney, David Self, and Gary Ross. MBC Studios, JB Pictures and AGC Studios are teamed on the film, the first tentpole-sized picture to be shot at Neom.

Grab your best knitted hats and scarves, because it’s time for the return of the famous Manchester Christmas Market, with mulled wines aplenty.

The highest television salaries for 2021 have been revealed.

Cardi B hits back at trolls who criticise her natural hairAstroworld fatalities brought to 10 as nine-year-old boy dies from his injuriesPaul Walker's daughter Meadow reveals she had tumour removed in hospital snapWhile one voiced online the act was ‘truly disgusting’, noting ‘the outrage if a male rockstar had done this to a female fan’, the band had their supporters, with one noting of Urista: ‘She did nothing wrong it was metal as f**k!’Another branded it ‘Spontaneous and outrageous.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorThe International Documentary Association has announced nominations for its 37th annual awards, with “Summer of Soul” picking up four noms and “Not Going Quietly” nabbing three.Winners will be announced Feb. 5 at the awards ceremony at Paramount Studios.“Summer of Soul,” Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s look at 1969’s Harlem Cultural Festival, picked up nominations for Thompson for director in addition to best feature, best music doc and best editing.