AMC Closes Deal For Grove & Americana Leases In LA; Venues Reopening In August With PLF Upgrades – Update

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorAs the city fully re-opens, Los Angeles restaurants are pulling out all the stops to welcome back patrons. Some have been open for outdoor dining throughout, others are just now reopening, but they’re all in the mood to celebrate after the past 18 months that devastated the restaurant world.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorConcord is diving deeper into its IP vault of music and theatrical performance rights to develop movies, TV shows and podcasts throught the newly established Concord Originals division.Sophia Dilley has been promoted to senior vice president to lead the push at Concord Originals from Los Angeles.

Mercedes Kilmer and Jack Kilmer step out for the premiere of Amazon Studios’ Val, held at DGA Theater Complex on Tuesday night (August 3) in Los Angeles.

Proof of at least partial vaccination against Covid-19 would be required to enter public indoor spaces in the city of Los Angeles, including restaurants, bars, gyms, concert venues, movie theaters and even “retail establishments,” under a proposal introduced Wednesday by City Council President Nury Martinez.

Oscars venue, rejecting the legacy of D.W. Griffith.The Los Angeles Times reports that the new owners of the Hollywood & Highland shopping centre are removing the statues and “all of the faux Mesopotamian elements” as part of a new makeover.The elephant statues were used on the set of the 1916 film Intolerance, directed by D.W.

American Horror Story spinoff series, American Horror Stories premiered on FX on Hulu and it’s the first time supermodel  Kaia Gerber made her acting debut. While the show is streaming, the cast and crew are simultaneously filming the final episodes.

EXCLUSIVE: Sister, the independent studio founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone, has struck a first-look deal with Chris Goldberg and his Winterlight Pictures to develop and produce television and feature content. Under the pact, Goldberg will be based out of Sister Los Angeles.

EXCLUSIVE: Los Angeles-based The Rosenzweig Group continues to grow and expand its management ranks with the promotion of associate Liz Wagner to Manager.

Outfest has unveiled the dates, venues, and lineup for its 39th film festival, which is returning to in-person screenings more than a year and a half after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterTom Barrack, the founder and former CEO of Colony Capital and longtime advisor to Donald Trump, was released on Friday on a whopping $250 million bond, three days after being arrested on charges that he acted as an unregistered foreign agent and lied about it to investigators.Barrack, 74, was freed from a county jail facility in San Bernardino, according to jail records.

The new lawyer hired by Britney Spears is speaking out with an update on her conservatorship case.

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max is developing The Final Girl Support Group, a TV series based on Grady Hendrix’s horror novel of the same name. The project hails from Oscar winner Charlize Theron and her Denver & Delilah Films, It duo Barbara and Andy Muschietti’s Double Dream as well as Aperture Entertainment.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaTwo popular Los Angeles movie theaters are under new management after AMC Entertainment announced Monday that it will assume the lease of The Grove in West Hollywood and The Americana at Brand in Glendale.News that AMC, the world’s largest exhibition chain, was in negotiations to take over the venues broke in June and came after its operator, the Pacific Theatres chain, was shut down permanently in April.