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Bay Area political events: Race and Hollywood, future of the office Chronicle staff report FacebookTwitterEmail Upcoming political events in the Bay Area. Events take place online unless otherwise noted: TUESDAY Race and diversity in Hollywood: A discussion of the obstacles that people of color face in entertainment, as well as steps toward industry changes to increase representation. Participants include Franklin Leonard, founder of the Black List, and Sheldon Lyn, co-author of “Black Repres...

Bay Area political events: Housing, coronavirus town hall Chronicle staff report FacebookTwitterEmail Upcoming political events in the Bay Area. Events take place online unless otherwise noted: MONDAY Rep. Ro Khanna: Fremont Democrat holds a town hall meeting. Noon. More information is here. George W. Bush: Former president on his new book, “Out of Many, One: Portraits of America’s Immigrants.” Hosted by the Commonwealth Club. Noon. More information is here. TUESDAY Housing solutions: A d...

Print This is the March 16, 2021, edition of The Wide Shot, a weekly newsletter about everything happening in the business of entertainment. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. At about 12:45 p.m. on Monday, nearly a full year after the pandemic shut down Los Angeles movie houses, patrons finally began to trickle back into the lobby of the Cinemark Playa Vista and XD theater. One of the first through the door was Ken May, a 58-year-old financial trader who hasn’t been to a movie since see...

By Nicole Sperling March 11, 2021 By ignoring the systemic racial inequities that plague the film and television business, Hollywood is leaving $10 billion annually on the table. That is one of the main findings in a new report from the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, which for the first time turned its attention to the lack of Black representation in Hollywood. My 2016 calculations show that since 1985 blacks get acting Oscar nominations in almost exact proportion to their shar...

Hollywood Losing $10 Billion Annually to Racial Inequality, New Study Shows Sign In Adam B. Vary, provided by March 11, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The pervasive issues of systemic racial inequality are costing the entertainment industry roughly $10 billion a year, according to a new study released on Thursday by McKinsey and Company. In a six-month study of the barriers facing Black professionals within the film and TV industries — looking primarily at the years between 2015 and 2019 — McKi...

For years, researchers have said a lack of diversity in Hollywood films doesn’t just poorly reflect demographics, it’s bad business.

The film and television business is a $148 billion industry, but consulting firm McKinsey & Company has found that the lack of Black-led projec...

A McKinsey report that combined previous research and new interviews argues that concrete steps like company bonuses tied to improved representation can lead to change.

Hollywood Losing $10B in Potential Annual Revenue From Black Inequity, Says McKinsey Report Rebecca Sun Black Inclusion in Hollywood As Hollywood companies and affiliated organizations scramble to hire diversity experts and strategists as part of their public commitments to inclusion, management consulting powerhouse McKinsey & Co. has applied its analytic expertise to the industry as a whole in a report diagnosing the experience of Black professionals working in entertainment....

NEW YORK - For years, researchers have said a lack of diversity in Hollywood films doesn’t just poorly reflect demographics, it’s bad business. A new study by the consulting firm McKinsey & Company estimates just how much Hollywood is leaving on the table: $10 billion.