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Legendary Underwrites Public Counsel Initiative To Help Furloughed Hollywood Workers Navigate Complex Unemployment Paperwork Gauntlet

10.07.2020 - 05:29

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By Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film EXCLUSIVE: In a collective effort to help the growing legion of Hollywood folks who’ve been abruptly furloughed or fired because of the COVID-19 epidemic, Legendary Entertainment has joined forces with the pro bono legal collective Public Counsel Partners to launch an assistance program designed to help get their unemployment benefits as quickly as possible, and keep them from being rejected over improperly filled-out forms.

It is one of two current initiatives taken by Legendary. The company is separately underwriting a program to house LAPD officers infected with COVID-19 to provide shelter at a downtown Los Angeles hotel so they are appropriately quarantined from their families while they