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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 Representation in Film and TV: The Challenges and Impact of Increasing Diversity.” Hosted by the Commonw...

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 discussion with the affordable housing and homelessness advocates who created Roadmap Home 2030, a pl...

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 seeing “The Invisible Man” right before shutdowns took hold in March 2020. He’d been dying to get...

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 share of the Anglosphere’s population. In contrast, Asians are under-represented in Hollywood and mest...

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 — McKinsey found that addressing racial inequities in who makes content and how that content is marketed a...