Walter Bernstein, the resilient screenwriter who drew upon his ignominious experience on the blacklist in 1950s Hollywood to pen the Oscar-nominated script for The Front, has died. He was 101. Bernstein died Friday night […]
The Visual Effects Society named its 2021 Board of Directors officers with Lisa Cooke being elected as Board Chair. She is the first woman to hold this role in VES’s history. The five officers, who comprise the VES Board Executive Committee […]
John Aldred, the two-time Oscar-nominated British soundman who collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, David Lean and Stanley Kubrick across a 50-year career, has died. He was 99. Aldred died December 15 in Worthing, England […]
“The production shut down and no one on the crew has been paid for any of their work,” a member of the crew told Deadline. “The producers dodged phone calls and emails about paying vendors, crew, etc., for almost a month. […]
“It’s 5 a.m., and my whole body is shaking,” writes Toni-Ann Lagana in The Hollywood Reporter. “Not because I’m cold or having a caffeine or drug withdrawal, but because I have been up for 18 hours straight, six days a week […]
Los Angeles’ top health department official urged the film and TV industry to pause production until the end of the month. While most studios had put many shows on an extended hiatus until this week, L.A. County Department of Public Health […]
“If all goes as planned, policy-making in the nation’s capital will become a sleepy affair as Joe Biden takes office as the 46th president of the United States,” writes Eriq Gardner in The Hollywood Reporter. “Whereas Donald Trump’s erratic […]
“As a country, today we will celebrate the inauguration of a new president on a stage built by IATSE union members,” IATSE tweeted. “Today the labor movement is uniting for a victory they delivered by electing pro-worker and pro-union […]
SAG-AFTRA took a major step Tuesday towards kicking Donald Trump out of the union. Meeting in special session, the national board of directors voted overwhelmingly to find “probable cause” that Trump, who has been a member for over 30 years […]
The Netflix documentary Dick Johnson Is Dead, directed by Kirsten Johnson, won two awards on the night, for Best Editing and Best Writing at the International Documentary Association’s IDA Awards. The editor is Nels Bangerter. […]
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