The Walt Disney Firm is donating $15 million for response and rebuilding efforts amid the continued Southern California fires. Paramount is donating $1 million to on-the-ground organizations, together with the Los Angles Fireplace Division Basis, California Fireplace Basis, Purple Cross, Direct Aid, World Central Kitchen and Greatest Pals Animal Society.

“As this tragedy continues to unfold, The Walt Disney Firm is dedicated to supporting our neighborhood and our staff as all of us work collectively to get better and rebuild from this unbelievable devastation,” stated CEO Bob Iger in an announcement. “Walt Disney got here to Los Angeles with little greater than his limitless creativeness, and it was right here that he selected to make his residence, pursue his goals, and create extraordinary storytelling meaning a lot to so many individuals all over the world. We’re proud to supply help to this resilient and vibrant neighborhood on this second of want.”

Within the assertion asserting the $15 million dedication, the Disney company additionally expressed gratitude to firefighters and first responders persevering with to work amid the continued emergency, in addition to the corporate’s personal native reporters at KABC for his or her protection.

“We might be supporting important organizations providing important providers on the bottom, together with the American Purple Cross, the Los Angeles Fireplace Division Basis and the Los Angeles Regional Meals Financial institution, amongst others,” reads the Disney launch. “Moreover, we’ve been working across the clock to make sure the protection and wellbeing of our staff, a lot of whom have been impacted by these fires, and we intend to supply additional assets to our Worker Aid Fund to assist these dealing with hardship because of this disaster.”

Paramount introduced its donation in an inside memo distributed to staff from co-CEOs George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins. The assertion additionally shares assets for impacted staff and an identical donation hyperlink to the corporate’s worker help fund.

“We additionally wish to acknowledge and thank our devoted CBS Information and Stations journalists and groups on-the-ground in Los Angeles, particularly our native KCBS/KCAL newsroom and our CBS Information LA bureau,” the Paramount assertion reads. “A lot of them and their households have been personally affected by the fires, they usually proceed to point out as much as maintain their native communities knowledgeable.” 

The studios’ contribution to aid efforts is the most recent in what is predicted to be an ongoing sequence of donations from the leisure trade to help these impacted by the fires. The Leisure Trade Basis introduced Wednesday morning that the nonprofit activated a program to funnel public donations to frontline employees and displaced households and pets. The EIF final administered a fund for the 2023 Maui fires alongside Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson.

On Thursday, Jamie Lee Curtis shared on social media that she and her household had pledged $1 million to determine a fund to assist these affected by the continued wildfires.

“I’m in communication with Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass and Senator Schiff as to the place these funds have to be directed for essentially the most impression,” she wrote on Instagram.

Over 20,000 acres have burned within the Pacific Palisades and Malibu since a hearth began Tuesday morning. East of L.A., the Eaton Fireplace has burned via greater than 13,000 acres. A 3rd blaze, the Hurst Fireplace, has burned via greater than 700 acres at high of the San Fernando Valley.

The continuing wildfires have prompted the leisure trade to cancel or reschedule numerous occasions within the Los Angeles space, together with the purple carpet premieres of “Unstoppable,” “The Final Showgirl,” “Higher Man” and “Wolf Man.” The Critics Alternative Awards, initially scheduled for Jan. 12, was postponed to Jan. 26, whereas the Oscar nominations announcement has been pushed again two days (to Jan. 19) to accommodate an prolonged voting window. Manufacturing has additionally been suspended on exhibits akin to “Fallout,” “Abbott Elementary” and “Hacks.”