COVID-19 Archives

REEL ST. LOUIS

Coolfire, Rodgers Townsend practice safe set during shoot

By Reel 360 Jul 10, 2020

The novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has affected the advertising industry just as it has many other industries, so it was important for St. Louis-based Coolfire Studios and...

Film

Q2 film production drops in LA County

By Reel 360 Jul 10, 2020

FilmLA, partner film office for the City and County of Los Angeles and other local jurisdictions, has updated its quarterly report series quantifying on-location filming within...

Indie Film

Fall Festivals team up for “United Platforms”

By Colin Costello Jul 8, 2020

The fall film festivals of Venice, Telluride, Toronto and New York have all agreed to join forces during this very strange year of 2020 and offer “United Platform” which or...

National

Advertising employment sees small gains in June

By Reel 360 Jul 6, 2020

Advertising has taken a real hit since COVID-19 shut most of the United States down in March. The cuts were largely due to pandemic-driven pullback in ad spending, causing alm...

Curtain Calls

Broadway will remain shut down until early Jan 2021

By Laura Day Jul 1, 2020

Broadway’s stages will stay dark for the coming months. The shutdown is now set to extend through early January. Broadway League announced producers have offered refunds a...

Reel Moves/Dallas

American Airlines to ditch social distancing as of 7/1

By Reel 360 Jun 26, 2020

As American Airlines' stock sinks, the company announced Friday that it will resume full flights starting July 1 amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The airli...

Film

‘Mulan’ seems destined for another delay

By Laura Day Jun 25, 2020

Those of us eagerly anticipating Disney’s live action Mulan will have to keep waiting. The live-action film, based on the animated classic, directed by Niki Caros and star...

Disneyland delays reopen, overhauls Splash Mountain

By Reel 360 Jun 25, 2020

With COVID-19 spiking sharply in California - the state broke a record Tuesday with an increase of more than 7,000 cases in a day - Disneyland has decided to delay plans to reo...

REEL MOVES/LA

Omelet sued by ACD for wrongful termination

By Reel 360 Jun 25, 2020

Former Omelet Associate Creative Director, Tiffani Harcrow, is suing the agency, alleging that she was wrongfully terminated in early May after expressing concerns about and re...

Harry Rosen offers Dad a matching shirt and mask set

By Reel 360 Jun 21, 2020

Happy Father's Day! Following unprecedented demand for their locally made masks, Toronto-based luxury brand Harry Rosen surprised deserving Fathers with a limited-edition match...

AICP

Cutters’ Gustafson wins 4 AICP Post Awards for Jeep

By Reel 360 Jun 17, 2020

The 2020 AICP Post Awards winners, honoring excellence in a range of post production arts, were revealed tonight during a special virtual premiere held online, in keeping with ...

The One Club

If you watch one video today, watch this – you NEED it

By Reel 360 Jun 16, 2020

The Reel 360 team is literally blown away. "What the World Needs Now" is a jaw-dropping, powerful music video performed by Grammy-nominated Tank and The Bangas (along with the ...

The Craft

Commercial Casting Directors release guidelines

By Reel 360 Jun 15, 2020

As we previously reported, California Governor Gavin Newsom has reopened Los Angeles-based TV and film productions starting last Friday may resume on June 12, 2020. Keeping ...

Union News

SAG-AFTRA reaches tentative deal with AMPTP

By Reel 360 Jun 11, 2020

With the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic shutting the film and TV industries down for an almost catastrophic three months, the last thing anyone needs is a strike. Good news for ...

REEL BOSTON

Dunkin’ launches first-ever recruitment campaign

By Reel 360 Jun 8, 2020

At a time of record unemployment, Dunkin' has been an essential, trusted part of the communities it serves, with approximately 90% of Dunkin' restaurants open to help keep Amer...

Laura Day’s hellish journey from Chicago to New York

By Laura Day Jun 7, 2020

Even as a privileged white woman, Covid-19 has been a personal hell for me. Early March, I land back in Chicago from a blissful weekend vacation and the world takes its fi...

Music

AMP elects Georg Bissen National President

By Reel 360 Jun 4, 2020

Georg Bissen, Owner, Composer and Sr. Producer at MetaTechnik in New York and president of the AMP East Board, has been elected the new National President of the Associat...

Post

Spot Welders’ Meyer cuts PSA for Sean Penn’s CORE

By Reel 360 Jun 4, 2020

Coronavirus seems like such old news in wake of the current protests going on worldwide due to the brutal murder George Floyd at the hands of four police officers. Derek Chauvi...

Post

Hooligan editor Delgado cuts PSA ‘Silence the Virus’

By Reel 360 May 29, 2020

Alejandro Delgado, editor at Hooligan in New York City, at recently cut “Silence the Virus,” a PSA for Governor Cuomo’s Wear A Mask New York Ad Contest. The spot deliver...

REEL MOVES/MINNEAPOLIS

Periscope goes through round of layoffs

By Reel 360 May 28, 2020

Even with Minnesota preparing to reopen, the advertising industry continues to feel the impact of reduced advertising revenue. Periscope, who laid off staffers in April, have ...