LOS ANGELES Today we get aboard the awards season on-ramp which will ultimately lead to The Road To Oscar, SHOOT’s 16-part series of feature stories covering Academy Award contenders. The Road To Oscar gets underway on November 14. In anticipation of that series, this preview installment connects with cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw, ASC who made history with Read More 

NEW YORK The Gotham Film & Media Institute unveiled the nominations for the 35th edition of The Gothams, singling out 40 feature films and 25 performances in 10 award categories with One Battle After Another receiving an all-time record high of six nominations. New this year, The Gotham has expanded its Best Feature category to include 10 Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) In long-awaited cuts just months after completing its $8 billion merger with Skydance, Paramount has begun layoffs set to impact about 2,000 employees. Paramount initiated roughly 1,000 of those layoffs company-wide on Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to publicly comment Read More 

LONDON (AP) It was a true story stranger than fiction: The body of England’s King Richard III, missing for centuries, was discovered under a parking lot after a search spearheaded by amateur sleuths. Now a movie about the saga has been accused of stretching the truth too far. The producers of “The Lost King” on Monday agreed Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Michael J. Fox has been living with “Back to the Future” for a long time. “I’ll be on the street and some kid will go, ‘There’s Marty McFly!'” Fox says. “No, this is an old man.” It’s been 40 years since “Back to the Future” debuted in theaters, but neither time, nor Parkinson’s disease has Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) “Call of Duty,” one of the most successful video game franchises of all time, is becoming a feature film with Peter Berg and Taylor Sheridan spearheading the adaptation, Paramount Pictures and Activision said Thursday. Berg and Sheridan will co-write the script and produce together, with Berg directing. The longtime friends previously collaborated on “Hell or Read More 

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) Mike Tirico, Maria Taylor, Ahmed Fareed and Noah Eagle will work multiple events in February as NBC broadcasts the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Super Bowl 60 and the NBA All-Star Game. On Feb. 8, Tirico will handle play-by-play in a Super Bowl for the first time after being the pregame host in 2022. After the Super Read More 

LOS ANGELES The American Film Institute (AFI) has revealed the Grand Jury Prize winners and Special Mentions for AFI Fest 2025. The Grand Jury Prize winners for Live Action Short, Documentary Short and Animated Short will be eligible for consideration in the 2026 Academy Awards® for Best Live Action Short, Best Documentary Short and Best Animated Short. Read More 

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. The Norman Lear Center and Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S) last night (10/27) at the Writers Guild Theater honored seven series tackling bold storylines that responsibly inform audiences on critical topics. The shows receiving Norman Lear Awards were The Pitt, Matlock, Paradise, Grey’s Anatomy, Shrinking, Chicago Med, and Dying for Sex. Presenters included: Katherine LaNasa Read More 

LOS ANGELES A new study from the USC Norman Lear Center reveals that HBO Max’s critically acclaimed medical drama The Pitt is doing far more than collecting Emmys. It’s changing hearts, minds, and behaviors. Through raw, authentic storytelling set inside a bustling Pittsburgh emergency room, The Pitt has not only resonated deeply with medical professionals but also Read More 

LOS ANGELES LIAKH has joined the directorial roster at Furlined for his first commercial representation in the U.S. LIAKH is the eponymous moniker of Ukrainian-born comedy writer and director Daniel Liakh whose work lies at the intersection of the absurd and the deeply human. A blue belt in jiu-jitsu and self-described “relatively nice person,” LIAKH has turned Read More 

LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK Creative studio SixTwentySix has signed director Savannah O’Leary for U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content. The move follows the studio’s recent acquisition of boutique production company SLMBR PRTY, marking a significant expansion of SixTwentySix’s creative footprint and bicoastal reach. O’Leary had previously been repped by SLMBR PRTY and has since ultimately decided to join Read More 

LOS ANGELES Creative production company Golden LA has signed Colombian-American filmmaker Jonatán López for U.S. commercial representation. Born in Cali, Colombia and raised in Florida, López has carved out a dynamic career as a director, with roots in writing, creative directing, and editing. Known for his signature style of marrying cinematic and mixed-media world-building with a playful, Read More 

NEW YORK Tinygiant has signed director Abigail Horton for U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content. She joins the production company at a moment of positive creative momentum, following a breakout year that saw the success of her debut feature film Blow Up My Life and commercial collaborations with brands like Kraft, Spotify, and General Mills. Horton’s Read More 

DALLAS Sugar Film Production has signed director Ben Orisich to its commercial roster for national representation. He comes aboard as the Dallas-based shop, launched by founding partners Tony Miglini and Chris Smith, marks its 25-year anniversary. Miglini noted that adding Orisich at this company milestone is “about strengthening what we do best. I’ve followed his work Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Any time a notable figure of the French New Wave is introduced in Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague,” we’re treated to a momentary straight-on shot of them, with a nameplate — Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, Éric Rohmer — at the bottom of the screen. It’s a little like Linklater, as he goes, is cataloging different species Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) There are scary movies where everything is fleshed out, where filmmakers and craftspeople show a nightmare in all its horrifying detail. In those kind of films, jump scares and reveals can even be a relief, allowing the tension and anticipation to deescalate so you can move on to the next thrill. Filmmaker Babak Anvari’s “Hallow Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) The just-wrapped Denver season of “Love Is Blind” may be the first time the show explored the Mountain West, but the Netflix reality dating show franchise is already a well-seasoned globe-trotter. In just five years, the show has aired seasons from nine different U.S. cities and spawned nearly a dozen international adaptations. Premised on challenging Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) June Lockhart, who became a mother figure for a generation of television viewers whether at home in “Lassie” or up in the stratosphere in “Lost in Space,” has died. She was 100. Lockhart died Thursday of natural causes at her home in Santa Monica, family spokesman Lyle Gregory, a friend of 40 years, said Saturday. Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) The stakes. The famous faces. The posh private rooms. The clever cheating schemes. The federal indictment of a big-money poker ring involving NBA figures on Thursday, in which unsuspecting rich players were allegedly enticed to join then cheated of their money, echoed decades of movies and television, and not just because of the alleged Mafia Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) “Jurassic World Rebirth” roaring and snarling on Peacock and Florence + the Machine’s latest Halloween-ready album, “Everybody Scream,” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: Eva Victor’s “Sorry, Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) A big-screen adaptation of the popular anime “Chainsaw Man” has beaten out a biopic about the Boss and the horror sequel “Black Phone 2” to top the North American box office. It’s the latest win for an anime film, less than two months after “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle” debuted to a Read More 

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