LOS ANGELES In a very practical sense, costume designer Deborah L. Scott supervises and is part of a visual effects team when working on writer-director James Cameron’s Avatar movies. That includes the latest, Avatar: Fire and Ash (20th Century Studios), for which she recently earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design. While the film is Read More 

NEW YORK & LOS ANGELES Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, Calif., was a decisive win for the Seattle Seahawks over the New England Patriots. But what about the other battle–on the advertising gridiron- which the game interrupted from time to time? Advertisers paid a premium–some $8 million on average for a :30 commercial time slot on NBC–to reach a Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Formula 1 team Cadillac is confident it can resolve a dispute with filmmaker Michael Bay, who is suing for $1.5 million for his ideas being used without permission in a Super Bowl commercial. In a 19-page lawsuit filed on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court of California, Bay accused Dan Towriss, the principal owner and Read More 

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Paul Thomas Anderson won the marquee feature prize at the 78th Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards on Saturday night (2/7) for One Battle After Another. This makes Anderson the frontrunner to win the Best Director Oscar. Only eight times over the past 77 years has the DGA Award winner not gone on to win Read More 

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Kim Gehrig of Somesuch has won the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award recognizing Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials for 2025. The honor was announced and celebrated during the gala 78th DGA Awards ceremony on Saturday evening (2/7) at the Beverly Hilton. This marked the third time in the last four years that Gehrig has Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Paramount is again sweetening its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, while again extending the deadline for its tender offer as it scrambles for more shareholder support. On Tuesday, the Skydance-owned company said it would pay Warner shareholders an added “ticking fee” if its deal doesn’t go through by the end of the year Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Actor Blake Lively and director Justin Baldoni came to a New York courthouse on Wednesday to see if her lawsuit alleging sexual harassment on the set of the 2024 romantic drama “It Ends With Us” could be settled before a May trial. The talks between lawyers went on over a six-hour period before Lively and Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Adam Mosseri, the head of Meta’s Instagram, testified Wednesday during a landmark social media trial in Los Angeles that he disagrees with the idea that people can be clinically addicted to social media platforms. The question of addiction is a key pillar of the case, where plaintiffs seek to hold social media companies responsible for Read More 

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) Nearly all of the 230 people up for Oscars across 24 categories gathered Tuesday for the Academy Award nominees luncheon, an event that functions as a celebration, group portrait session and orientation for next month’s big ceremony. Nominees including Jessie Buckley, Timothée Chalamet, Leonardo DiCaprio and Emma Stone sat for lunch and stood for a Read More 

SACRAMENTO, Calif. Assemblymember Sade Elhawary (D-57th Assembly District) has announced plans to introduce legislation creating California’s first-ever Commercial Production Tax Credit Program, aimed at bringing commercial advertising production–and the jobs it creates–back to the Golden State. The legislation would incentivize national and international brands to film commercials in California, strengthening the state’s creative economy and expanding access Read More 

LOS ANGELES Australian filmmaker Husein Alićajić has joined Eleanor–the L.A.-based shop headed by president Sophie Gold–for representation in the U.S. across commercial and branded projects. Alićajić is known for visually graphic commercial work that blends comedy, cinematic craft, and technology-led storytelling. Comfortable moving between humor and high-concept tech, Alićajić has embraced an approach which remains grounded in Read More 

LOS ANGELES Entertainment agency network Terry Hines & Associates (THA) has acquired design-driven creative content studio Modern Logic. The acquisition–financial terms of which were not disclosed–significantly expands Terry Hines & Associates’ capabilities as a full-service marketing agency, offering clients access to high-caliber creative strategy and execution across the entire marketing ecosystem. Modern Logic joins a broader collective Read More 

LOS ANGELES & AUSTIN, Tex. Fashion/lifestyle director and photographer Kathryn Boyd Brolin has signed with L.A. and Austin-based Synthetic Pictures, marking her first career production company representation for commercials and branded content. Boyd Brolin is a celebrated multi-hyphenate–a sought after still photographer who serves not only as a brand ambassador for Leica Camera, but also as a live action director, Read More 

LOS ANGELES Friends & Family, launched in 2022 by advertising veteran Scott Kaplan, has signed longtime collaborator director Matt Dilmore to its roster for U.S. commercial representation. Known for off-kilter humor and a strong visual sense, Dilmore has directed Super Bowl spots for KFC and Avocados from Mexico, an Emmy-nominated short for Old Navy, and assorted campaigns Read More 

LOS ANGELES Alldayeveryday has added director Todd Heyman to its roster for U.S. commercial representation. Heyman’s journey from actor to filmmaker has shaped a visual storytelling voice defined by cinematic impact and human connection. Whether crafting an epic Visa/SEC mashup, directing an animated showdown between a man and an attitude-filled rattlesnake for FedEx, or creating a PSA Read More 

LONDON Publicis London has appointed Bronwyn Sweeney and Loren Cook as global creative directors, fortifying chief creative officer Noël Bunting’s creative leadership team. The pair will support Bunting in shaping the agency’s global creative output and will work across Publicis London’s variety of international accounts. The appointments are new roles for the agency and follow a Read More 

LONDON Michael Bauman has won the British Society of Cinematographers’ feature film award for his lensing of One Battle After Another (Warner Bros. Pictures). This is Bauman’s first win and nomination at the BSC Awards. The gala awards ceremony was held Saturday night (2/7) at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London and hosted by Edith Bowman Read More 

LOS ANGELES The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) will celebrate Guillermo del Toro with its Board of Governors Award at the 40th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards Gala on March 8 at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. “Guillermo del Toro has reshaped modern cinema by treating the screen as a living canvas, painting worlds where Read More 

LOS ANGELES Topping the film categories at the 28th Costume Designers Guild Awards held on Thursday evening (2/12) at The Ebell of Los Angeles were: Frankenstein (Excellence in Period Film, costume designer Kate Hawley, CDG); One Battle After Another (Contemporary Film, costume designer Colleen Atwood, CDG); and Wicked: For Good (Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film, costume designer Paul Tazewell, CDG). Read More 

LOS ANGELES The Advanced Imaging Society (AIS) has unveiled the winners of the 2026 Lumiere Awards, recognizing outstanding creative and technical achievements during its 16th annual celebration. The awards honor the artists, engineers, and innovators whose work continues to push the boundaries of storytelling and cinematic technology. The annual Lumiere Awards luncheon was held today (2/9) at Read More 

LOS ANGELES Sinners, KPop Demon Hunters and Train Dreams topped the film winners at the 7th Annual Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) Awards on Friday night (2/6) at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Two-time Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Grammy-winning composer Ludwig Göransson won Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film for his work Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) With just a single photo released from their wedding day, much of the relationship between John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette remains shrouded in romanticized legend: the courtship between the fashion publicist and the scion of an already much-mythologized family, the private nuptials and, just three years later, their deaths in a tragic plane Read More 

BERLIN (AP) A surprising and touching Afghan political rom-com that is said to feature the first ever on-screen kiss in an Afghan movie opens the 76th Berlin Film Festival Thursday. Set in a Kabul newsroom in 2021, with the Taliban on the cusp of returning to power, “No Good Men” tells the workplace love story of camerawoman Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) James Van Der Beek, a heartthrob who starred in coming-of-age dramas at the dawn of the new millennium, shooting to fame playing the titular character in “Dawson’s Creek” and in later years mocking his own hunky persona, has died. He was 48. “Our beloved James David Van Der Beek passed peacefully this morning. He met Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) It’s hardly a surprise that filmmaker Emerald Fennell, who possesses a particular interest in shocking and riling her audience, was drawn to Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights.” This is a novel that has vexed critics since the beginning, with one in 1848 decrying its “vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors.” Nearly 179 years after its publication, “Wuthering Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Two young boys spend a day with their oft absent father in Lagos amid political turbulence in “My Father’s Shadow,” an affecting debut feature from Akinola Davies Jr. The film, which premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, might have missed out on the Oscars (the U.K.’s selection didn’t even make the shortlist ), but Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) In Gore Verbinski’s absurdist AI sci-fi satire “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,” a strange unnamed man (Sam Rockwell) steps into a Los Angeles diner and declares that he’s from the future. “All of this is going to go horribly wrong,” he says. Norm’s diner on La Cienega might not seem like the most likely Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Bart Layton’s “Crime 101” is a “Heat” pastiche that, even if it falls well shy of its Michael Mann blueprint, has some basic appeal going for it. Los Angeles crime movies are fun. Chris Hemsworth looks good in a suit. And we’re all suckers for savvy criminals with good escape routes. Just as Robert De Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Hollywood largely ceded attention to football over a slow box-office weekend, with the survival thriller “Send Help” repeating as No. 1 in ticket sales and the Melania Trump documentary “Melania” falling sharply in its second weekend. Super Bowl weekend is typically one of the lowest attended moviegoing times of the year. It was the second Read More 

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