Los Angeles is experiencing an apocalypse. Nearly 17,000 acres are on fire. More than 2,000 homes have been destroyed. 180,000 people have been forced to leave their homes. The fires, ravaging Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, and Beverly Hills, have also brought the movie industry to its knees. Hollywood has postponed several events, including premieres, tapings of new episodes, galas, and movie award ceremonies. In this regard, actress Jean Smart, fresh off a Golden Globe as “Best Television Female Actor – Musical/Comedy Series” for her role on Hacks, has appealed to the TV networks.
On her Instagram profile, where she is followed by more than 161,000 people, she wrote: “With ALL due respect, during Hollywood’s season of celebration, I hope any of the networks televising the upcoming awards will seriously consider NOT televising them and donating the revenue they would have garnered to victims of the fires and firefighters.”
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In recent days, the Critics Choice Awards were postponed to Jan. 26. Equally, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has extended its voting period for the 2025 Oscars from Jan. 12 to Jan. 14, postponing the announcement ceremony to Jan. 19. The SAG Awards management preferred to announce the nominees via email, canceling the ceremony that should have been hosted by Monsters actor Cooper Koch and A Family Affair star Joey King. These are all events Smart reportedly alluded to although she did not specifically mention them. According to Vulture, LAFCA Awards announced over Bluesky that its awards banquet is postponed, as also the release of the WGA annual nominees list has been rescheduled to next Monday, Jan. 13. Both its East and West Coast ceremonies will take place on Feb. 15 as planned, although this may change in the near future as the magnitude of the destruction is better assessed.
According to Variety, Amazon MGM Studios and Universal Studios were the first, on Tuesday afternoon, to cancel premieres of Unstoppable, starring Jharrel Jerome and Jennifer Lopez, and Wolf Man, starring Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner. Then, Paramount followed canceling Robbie Williams’ Better Man presentation, Max called off The Pitt‘s preview, and same happened to the premiere of The Last Showgirl with Pamela Anderson and Kiernan Shipka scheduled for Jan. 9 at the Chinese Theatre Multiplex in Hollywood. Netflix canceled an event celebrating the songs of Emilia Perez that star Karla Sofía Gascón and composers Camille & Clément were supposed to attend. A screening of A Complete Unknown at the San Vicente Bungalows, the opening of the Dune exhibition at the Leica Gallery, and the BAFTA Tea Party at the Four Seasons Hotel were postponed. For this week, episode productions of Fallout, Hacks, Loot, Ted, Happy’s Place, NCIS, Poppa’s House, The Neighborhood, Doctor Odyssey, Grey’s Anatomy, and Suits: L.A. were also skipped. Filming for CBS’s After Midnight hosted by Taylor Tomlinson and Jimmy Kimmel Live at Disney Studios has also been postponed.
Thousands of celebrities have been forced to abandon their homes in Beverly Hills due to the evacuation order instituted by Los Angeles authorities. In addition to actors James Woods, Steven Guttenberg, Eugene Levy, Mark Hamill, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paris Hilton, and Billy Crystal, the reported area would also include the mansion of Hunter Biden, son of the outgoing president.
