The first LED cinema screen in the US was unveiled Friday at Pacific Theatres Winnetka in Chatsworth, a suburb of Los Angel-es, where Warner Brothers’ Ready Player One will be the first movie offered on this exhibition system, starting Saturday. […]
The Writers Guild wants to completely reshape the talent agency business, putting an end to packaging and stopping the agencies’ nascent ventures into film and television production. In their proposals for a new agreement with the Association of […]
With a reported attendance in excess of 100,000 from some 160 countries, plus 1,800-plus exhibitors, the NAB Show is often described as the world’s largest convention encompassing the convergence of media, entertainment and technology — the self-styled “MET Effect.” […]
Bill Mechanic, the veteran producer and former studio chief, has resigned his position on the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where he has been one of three governors representing the Academy’s executives […]
The Motion Picture Editors Guild will honor veteran sound re-recording mixer Lee Dichter, CAS, with its prestigious Fellowship and Service Award at The Sheraton New York at Times Square on October 20, 2018. […]
The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal with reporting that galvanized the #MeToo movement and set off a worldwide reckoning over sexual misconduct […]
“Forman’s films, and others of the Czech new wave, introduced to the cinema portrayals of working-class life untainted by the formulae of socialist realism,” writes Ronald Bergan in The Guardian UK. “Though fiercely attacked by Stalinist reviewers initially, the more liberal faction of the Communist party […]
In an increasingly rare occurrence in Hollywood nowadays, the successful effort by editorial employees of Nickelodeon Animation Studio to unionize has been welcomed by the Sponge Bob SquarePants home’s corporate bosses. […]
In a statement Thursday, SAG-AFTRA, Hollywood’s largest labor union, announced that it had updated its code of conduct to prohibit auditions and interviews from being held in private hotel rooms or residences. The decision comes in the wake […]
The WGA East and West have notified the Association of Talent Agents that they want to renegotiate their decades-old agreement covering packaging of TV series. “After months of member outreach, the WGA West board and WGA East […]
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