The American Film Institute (AFI) celebrated the 2021 AFI Awards honorees with a star-studded invite-only luncheon in Beverly Hills on Friday (3/11). AFI also revealed its official rationales (below) for all 23 honorees, providing the cultural and artistic context to mark these outstanding...

Director/editor Bradley Ross has launched Open Swim, a Brooklyn-based production company. Ross, the former president of Manhattan Productions, teams in the new venture with executive producer Amyliz Pera.

Open Swim works to guide projects from start to finish, an approach already being...

Marco Venturelli has been appointed chief creative officer of Publicis Groupe France. In the newly created role, Venturelli will lead creativity across all of Publicis France’s agencies including Publicis Conseil, Marcel, Leo Burnett Paris, Saatchi & Saatchi, Publicis Consultants,...

The European Union threatened to crack down on an agreement between Google and Facebook parent Meta for online display advertising services, saying Friday that the deal may breach the bloc's rules on fair competition.

The EU's competition watchdog opened a probe into a 2018 pact involving...

Mila Kunis, Wesley Snipes and John Travolta are among the latest batch of celebrities who have been added to the Oscars telecast, producers Will Packer and Shayla Cowan said Friday. The show is just over two weeks out and under pressure to reverse declining ratings, which last year hit an all-...

Stink Studios has opened its second office in China. Located in Shenzhen, the office will be overseen by Ramzi Chaabane, managing director of the company’s Chinese headquarters in Shanghai. The creative output of the Shenzhen office will be overseen by ...

Bicoastal/international Station Film has secured Stephanie Stephens Reps to handle representation on the West Coast. Recent campaigns from Station include Google TV, Progressive, Rocket Mortgage and The General. Stephens began her career on the brand side at...