The Movement Image & Tv Fund’s second annual Lights, Digicam, Take Motion! Caring for Hollywood’s Crews telethon exceeded its fundraising objective by elevating $786,512 on Saturday night time, the nonprofit mentioned.
The telethon, co-hosted and co-produced by Yvette Nicole Brown and Tom Bergeron, aired reside on KTLA in Los Angeles, aiming to boost aid funds for leisure business members impacted by the twin WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes this 12 months.
It had set a objective of elevating $750,000 this 12 months after elevating $865,000 a 12 months in the past.
Performances throughout the two-hour telecast included from Annette O’Toole and Michael McKean, Chris Mann, Darren Criss, Harry Northup, Lalah Hathaway, Leslie Odom Jr, MUSYCA Kids’s Choir, Tausha with The Boxmasters, and Wendy Liebman. Particular friends included Awkwafina, Billy Bob Thornton, Camilla Belle, Clark Gregg, Colin Farrell, Colman Domingo, Cristo Fernández, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Ike Barinholtz, Jay Ellis, Jeff Bridges, Jimmy Jam, Jodie Foster, John Stamos, Jonathan and Drew Scott, Lena Dunham, Ming-Na Wen, Morgan Freeman, Randall Park, Ronny Chieng and Tom Lennon.
Dawnn Lewis, Jason George, Jeff Sherman, Keith Powell, Kyle Bornheimer, Malcolm Barrett, Matt Walsh, Milana Vayntrub, Ramona Younger, Rob Morrow, Sherry Saum, Spencer Garrett and Wilmer Valderrama helped take viewer donations all through the present.
“MPTF actually stepped up this 12 months to assist our leisure business,” Bergeron mentioned. “We’re so comfortable that as a substitute of nonetheless holding up picket indicators, we’re becoming a member of with MPTF to assist maintain up each other with consolation and pleasure.”
Together with Brown and Bergeron, producers coming back from the inaugural version included Phil Rosenthal and David Wild.
The MPTF mentioned that throughout the strikes it acquired greater than 14,000 requires support, a quantity of requests 10 instances greater than the identical time final 12 months. It has supplied $7 million in charitable help this 12 months up to now.
The telethon is offered to look at right here.
