Van-Tam: Covid vaccine being tested to check child safety
Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England Jonathan Van-Tam says most manufacturers are beginning clinical trials to prove their Covid vaccines ae safe and effective in children.
Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England Jonathan Van-Tam says most manufacturers are beginning clinical trials to prove their Covid vaccines ae safe and effective in children.
The Chicks have filed a $6.6 million lawsuit against an insurance underwriter over its refusal to cover losses from the cancelation of the “Gaslighter” tour last year. The band, formerly known as the Dixie Chicks, released their first studio album in 14 years last July. They also planned a 48-show North American tour, which was […]
China watchers hoped China’s latest five-year plan, the policy document dictating the country’s near-term economic strategy, would contain new details on how the country plans to hit peak greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, and maybe even move that date ahead a few years. The world’s top greenhouse gas emitter announced no new targets beyond what officials already committed to over the last year. Although the plan calls for a “major push” on clean energy development, the vague commitment all but guarantees emissions will continue to increase until 2030, when officials have promised they will peak.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said Friday she is issuing an executive order mandating that all K-12 public schools provide universal access to in-person learning by the month’s end for students up to fifth grade and by mid-April for older students. The state’s coronavirus case numbers have fallen significantly and Oregon put teachers ahead of older residents in the line for the COVID-19 vaccine. Under the order, students in K-5 must have an in-person learning option by March 29.
Former slalom world champion Jean-Baptiste Grange will retire at the end of the season, the Frenchman said on Friday. "After 17 years on the World Cup circuit, it is time for me to close this beautiful chapter of my life and hang up my skis," Grange said in a statement on Facebook. He won the slalom world title in 2011 and 2015, also winning the slalom World Cup in 2009.
A growing number of Americans plan to get vaccinated against Covid-19 with confidence increasing particularly among African Americans, according to a Pew Research Center survey published on Friday.
First American Trust chief investment officer Jerry Braakman tells Reuters' Fred Katayama investors should buy on the dips amid this spike in market volatility. He sees consumers' excess savings making their way into the markets.
Romain Grosjean's fireball crash at the Bahrain Grand Prix has provided important lessons "that will advance our mission to improve safety in Formula One and in motor sport," International Federation (FIA) President Jean Todt said on Friday.
Namir Smallwood and Sidney Flanigan will star in “Rounding,” a new dramatic thriller from “Saint Frances” director Alex Thompson. “Rounding” follows a driven young medical resident (Smallwood) who transfers to a rural hospital for a fresh start. There, the demons of his past start to catch up to him when he becomes consumed by the […]
Movie enthusiast Cindy B was among the first in the door at the AMC Empire 25 off Times Square Friday as New York City's cinemas reopened a year after they were abruptly closed by coronavirus.
Preliminary data from a study conducted at the University of Oxford indicates that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca is effective against the Brazilian variant of the disease. A source knowledgeable of the study told Reuters on Friday that the data indicates that the vaccine will not need to be modified in order to protect against the variant also known as P1, which is believed to have originated in the Amazonian city of Manaus.Last month, South Africa paused the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the country after early results indicated that it was less effective against the South African variant, which is similar to P1. The source did not provide the exact efficacy of the vaccine against the Brazilian variant, but said the full results of the study should be released soon, possibly in March.The promising information comes as a small-sample study suggested that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac may not work effectively against the Brazilian variant.Brazil is currently confronting a brutal and long-lasting second wave of the coronavirus, hitting a daily record of more than 1900 deaths on Wednesday.The P1 variant is among the factors that epidemiologists believe is contributing to a rise in cases and deaths there, with concern in the scientific community about the variant's resistance to vaccines.
President Biden participates in a roundtable on the American Rescue Plan.
Riley Keough has signed on to star opposite Chris Pratt in the Amazon thriller series “The Terminal List,” Variety has learned. The series follows James Reece (Pratt) after his entire platoon of Navy SEALs is ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission. Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about […]
The Writers Guild of America, East is hosting their annual “And the Nominees Are…” Panels on March 10th, and Variety will host the livestreams. The Comedy/Variety Series Panel will take place at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET, while the Long-Form TV Movie & Limited Series Panel will take place at 4:00pm PT / 7:00pm ET. […]
Brazilian club Atletico Mineiro triggered controversy Friday by naming Alexi "Cuca" Stival as their new coach, despite his conviction for sexually assaulting a minor 34 years ago.
A version of this story about “The Midnight Sky” first appeared in the Oscar Nominations Preview issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. “The Midnight Sky” had just begun shooting in Iceland when director George Clooney turned to visual effects supervisor Matt Kasmir with an idea. There was a scene in the film in which an astronaut suffers a tear in her space suit and begins to suffocate from the lack of oxygen — but what if they replaced that, Clooney said, with a scene in which she’s bleeding inside her suit? And what if, when she gets inside the spaceship and they take her helmet off, the blood spurts out and floats around her in a kind of zero-gravity ballet? “That was in November of 2019,” Kasmir remembered. “And bless him, he didn’t see any final, finished shots until a week before he had to deliver the film (in the summer of 2020). “I have to say, hat’s off to George. I wouldn’t have trusted me to deliver the sequence we did.” Also Read: Inside George Clooney's 'The Midnight Sky,' From Felicity Jones' Surprise Pregnancy to His 'Santa Claus' Beard The scene required Kasmir, fellow visual effects supervisor Chris Lawrence and their teams to research the viscosity and density and color of zero-G blood and to animate individual blobs, which they took to naming: “They weren’t exotic names, just like Mr. Blobby and Third Blob From the Left.” The blood scene, before and after VFX: They also replaced the background, because walls had to be removed from the set to allow for wires and rigging to suspend the actors, and they replaced actors’ faces at times for some shots. (There are moments in the scene, he said, when every element was CG.) Scene that was constructed entirely in CG: “In every sense, it was one of the more complicated scenes I’ve ever worked on,” Kasmir said. “George had a list of things: It had to be balletic and look beautiful, it couldn’t look like a horror film, it was horrific but never gory. And we kept hitting our marks.” The zero-G blood was hardly the only challenge in “The Midnight Sky,” which also required 70 fully CG performances during an extended spacewalk scene that was meticulously planned with a virtual camera system. Also Read: George Clooney on How the Pandemic 'Changed the Temperature' of His Sci-Fi Drama 'The Midnight Sky' Back on Earth, the action takes place in the Arctic, where the VFX team made use of LED screens rather than compositing for exterior scenes, as well as SkyPanels and Roscoe gel walls that would enable them to control the kind of light reflecting off the snow. “I’ve got this absolute hatred of artificial or even real snow shot on a stage, because snow reflects so much of the environment,” he said. “You don’t perceive it, but you’d notice when it’s not there – it always looks just blown out and dead. And the worst-case scenario happened because of the lack of falling snow in Iceland, which meant that we didn’t necessarily get all the shots we wanted.” The Arctic station, before and after CG: “We were directly cutting between location Arctic shots and stage Arctic shots,” Kasmir said. “We pushed the technology so that I could stand on the stage at the lighting desk and replicate the falloff and the blues of the sky and the orange of the sunrise and the darkness of the hills. “That was my biggest fear going into the job, but even now I find some of those shots indistinguishable.” Read more from the Oscar Nominations Preview issue here. Read original story How ‘The Midnight Sky’ Visual Effects Team Pulled Together That Bloody Space Scene At TheWrap
Residents of Dauphin, Pennsylvania, organized an event to show their appreciation to their hardworking local UPS driver. The March 2 video shows residents lining up to greet driver Chad Turns with cheers, balloons, and more than $1,000.Adam Shickley, who captured the video, said his wife Jenny organized the event on Facebook with the help of their local UPS office and dispatch.The office sent Turns to an on-demand pickup as a ruse to get him to the event, according to reports. The neighborhood wanted to thank Turns for his service during the pandemic. Local media reported that Turns sometimes worked 70 hours per week to make sure the community received all their packages. Credit: Adam Shickley via Storyful
Wayne Gretzky, the all-time National Hockey League scoring leader, said his father Walter, an inspirational influence upon his son's hockey career, died Thursday at age 82.
Formula One's governing body extended Pirelli's contract as sole tyre supplier by one year to 2024 on Friday to reflect disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. FIA president Jean Todt said the change of tyre size represented a significant technical challenge and investment for Pirelli.
Russell Crowe is set to star as artist Mark Rothko in a film titled “Rothko” and directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. Crowe will lead an ensemble cast that includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jared Harris and Aisling Franciosi, and the film will be set in the art world about Rothko’s daughter’s attempt to preserve her father’s legacy. Franciosi, who broke out in “The Nightingale,” will play Crowe’s daughter in the film. Rothko is a Latvian artist known for his color field paintings of irregular, painterly rectangles, which he mainly produced between 1949-1970. Taylor-Johnson’s film is adapted from a book by Lee Seldes called “The Legacy of Mark Rothko” about how Kate Rothko fought corrupt, elitist power brokers who have conspired to sell her father’s art fraudulently after he passes. She became an orphan at 19 and a mother to her 7-year-old brother, and with few resources or experiences she engages in a four-year legal battle and trial to expose the underhanded greed of the art world. Lara Wood wrote the screenplay. Also Read: Russell Crowe Says Original 'Gladiator' Script Was 'So Bad' (Video) The film is being introduced to buyers at the European Film Market, with Rocket Science representing international sales rights and CAA Media Finance representing U.S. rights. Jared Freedman, David Silverton, Sam Taylor-Johnson and Aaron Taylor-Johnson will produce the film, which will shoot in Summer 2021. Jonathan Schwartz and Logan Lerman are executive producing. “Rothko” already has an impressive production team that includes Oscar-winner Colleen Atwood as its costume designer, Jeff Cronenweth as cinematographer and Mark Friedberg as production designer. “‘Rothko’ is not just a movie about the great artist, but rather a timeless story about right versus wrong,” Taylor-Johnson said in a statement. “It’s Kate Rothko’s journey to protect the seminal paintings from the corrupt men who betrayed her father and stole his art; it is a reckoning with men in positions of power who try everything to destroy her father’s legacy.” Also Read: Annette Bening to Star as Cuba-to-Florida Swimmer Diana Nyad in Biopic From 'Free Solo' Directors Taylor-Johnson is known for “Nowhere Boy” and “Fifty Shades of Grey,” and she last directed “A Million Little Pieces” starring her husband Aaron. She’s an executive producer on the Amazon anthology series “Solos” starring Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren. Taylor-Johnson is represented by CAA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners; Russell Crowe is represented by Brillstein Entertainment Partners; Aisling Franciosi by WME, Lisa Richards Agency and United Agents; Michael Stuhlbarg by ICM and Viking Entertainment; Jared Harris by ICM and Independent Talent. Aaron Taylor-Johnson by WME and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Read original story Russell Crowe to Star in ‘Rothko’ About Daughter’s Fight to Preserve Artist’s Legacy At TheWrap