LOS ANGELES Cinematographer Michael Bauman and editor Andy Jurgensen are well versed in the world building of writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson. Bauman and Jurgensen have come up the ranks in that world. Bauman first worked with Anderson as chief lighting technician on The Master and Inherent Vice, and next a lighting cameraman on Phantom Thread before becoming Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) The Oscars are making room for one more award on their live broadcast in 2026. The new prize for achievement in casting will be part of the 98th Academy Awards in March, the academy told The Associated Press on Wednesday. That brings the total award count to 24 for the Oscars broadcast on March 15, Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Tom Cruise, at 63 still the biggest movie star in a room full of them, finally got to hold his own Oscar on a Hollywood stage on Sunday night. “Making movies is not what I do, it’s who I am,” said Cruise. He was composed as always, but at moments seemed near tears as he Read More 

LOS ANGELES The numbers are in for the American Film Market® (AFM®) which wrapped its 46th edition on Sunday (11/16), marking the Market’s return home to Los Angeles (after a year in Las Vegas) and its first-ever staging at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Century City. AFM brought together sales and production companies, buyers, financiers, film Read More 

BEDFORD, NY (AP) Brendan Fraser is staring at a cooling fireplace. “I have an urge to poke this fire so bad,” Fraser says with a grin. The 56-year-old actor is midway through breakfast at a boutique Westchester inn not far from his home. He arrived, as Fraser usually does, with wide-eyed excitement, cheerfully greeting the server, ordering up Read More 

VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Leo XIV welcomed Spike Lee, Cate Blanchett, Greta Gerwig and dozens of other Hollywood luminaries to a special Vatican audience Saturday celebrating cinema and its ability to inspire and unite. Leo encouraged the filmmakers and celebrities gathered in a frescoed Vatican audience hall to use their art to include marginal voices, calling film “a Read More 

LOS ANGELES The International Documentary Association unveiled the nominations for the 41st IDA Documentary Awards. Topping the tally was Apocalypse in the Tropics with four nominations, followed by Life After, Seeds and The Tale of Silyan with three apiece. This year, IDA received 550+ entries in all categories from 85 countries, an increase over last year in Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) The Screen Actors Guild Awards are now called the Actor Awards. The show commonly known as the SAG Awards will officially become the Actor Awards presented by SAG-AFTRA in its next incarnation on March 1, when Netflix will stream the ceremony as it has since 2023. The move was announced Friday to the board of Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) When prestige TV was first thought to be eclipsing movies, with quality scripts and meaty acting roles, two shows frequently bandied about were “Homeland” with Claire Danes and “The Americans” starring Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell. Danes acknowledges other parallels with Rhys. “I mean, you married an American lady, I married a British gentleman,” she Read More 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Meta has prevailed over an existential challenge to its business that could have forced the tech giant to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp after a judge ruled that the company does not hold a monopoly in social networking. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued his ruling Tuesday after the historic antitrust trial wrapped up in Read More 

NEW YORK Novelist/director/producer Rebecca Miller has joined Moxie Pictures for global branded content representation. The development comes on the heels of her most recent project, Mr. Scorsese (2025) a five part series about the prolific filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s life and career. Mr. Scorsese premiered at the New York Film Festival to critical acclaim. Miller conducted over 20 Read More 

LOS ANGELES Creative production partner Tool has added Marc and Melanie Chartrand, known professionally as The Chartrands, to its directorial roster for commercial representation in the U.S. The duo has directed commercial campaigns for brands including Starbucks, McDonald’s, KitchenAid, Nissan, Ram, Arby’s, Panera, and Miller Lite. “From our first conversation, I knew that we would want them Read More 

NEW YORK BBH USA has expanded its creative department with three key leadership appointments. Ryan Atkinson joins as head of design, while Alex Booker and Estefanio Holtz have been appointed as co-heads of creative. They will report to Erica Roberts, chief creative officer of BBH USA. “Ryan, Alex and Estefanio bring exactly the kind of creative energy Read More 

SACRAMENTO, Calif. Governor Gavin Newsom has announced the selection of 17 TV projects for the latest round of awards through California’s Film and Television Tax Credit Program, which will collectively bring an expected $1.2 billion into the state’s economy. This round brings the total economic impact from the first two TV windows of Program 4.0 to over Read More 

LOS ANGELES Production company Golden LA has signed filmmaker Rob Chiu for U.S. commercial representation. A London-based director and photographer, Chiu over the years has collaborated with brands such as Audi, Nike, BMW, and Adidas, and partnered with agencies including Team One, McCann, Saatchi and Wieden + Kennedy. Most recently represented in the U.S. by Iconoclast (which Read More 

NEW YORK Scheme Engine has signed director Julie Réali for exclusive representation in the U.S. Dividing her time between Paris and New York, Réali brings a radically fresh lens to commercial filmmaking–one that bridges generative tools and systems thinking with deeply human storytelling. Working across live-action, AI, CGI, and immersive formats, she uses emerging technologies not to Read More 

LOS ANGELES U.K. production company Common People Studio has expanded across the pond with the launch of Common People Studio US. The U.S. venture strengthens Common People Studio’s position across branded content, commercials, short films, and long-form programming. Common People Studio US will be headed up by executive producers Drew DeGennaro and Renee Krumweide, seasoned production veterans Read More 

LOS ANGELES Global media and entertainment company Rabbits Black has signed director Christine Santora for commercial representation. The move follows Rabbits Black’s recent roster expansions, including directors Kate Beecroft, Travis Hanour, and Cooper Gunn Davis. “Christine has that rare ability to make creative teams feel both understood and energized from day one,” said Mike Bergin, executive producer Read More 

NEW YORK & LOS ANGELES PSYOP has added London-based motion studio Daisy Chain to its U.S. roster. This marks the first time that Daisy Chain has been repped in the American market. Co-founded by Connor Campbell and Harry Butt, Daisy Chain has become known for creating beautifully atypical visual worlds. Daisy Chain began in a tiny, overheating studio in London Read More 

LONDON Banijay Branded Entertainment (BBE), part of Banijay Entertainment, has confirmed a development collaboration between global presenter and producer Aidy Smith, and production company Electric Robin (part of Banijay UK). The deal will see the creation of formats, developed in partnership between Electric Robin and Smith, who will also serve as executive producer. The formats will Read More 

CHICAGO Production studio PARAGON has added director Dylan Bradshaw to its roster for advertising and branded content collaborations. Bradshaw is a next-gen director blending cinematic storytelling with viral internet culture. He broke out after teaming with co-director Nate Norell to win the 2025 Doritos Crash The Super Bowl contest with “Abduction.” The self-funded spot made its Read More 

LOS ANGELES UnderWonder has signed Too Short For Modeling–the viral directing duo most notably behind a buzz-generating Liquid Death spec spot–for U.S. commercial representation. Known for blending absurdist comedy with cutting-edge technology, Noam Sharon and Tal Rosenthal, aka Too Short For Modeling, are redefining how live action and AI can coexist. After years of directing live-action spots, Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) “Give us a clock tick” is an expression uttered several times in “Wicked: For Good.” But Jon M. Chu’s two-part musical has asked for quite a bit more than that. Together, the two halves of this “Wicked” adaptation have run 297 minutes, which, more than the threat of lions and tigers and bears, is enough Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) There is nothing particularly grand about Robert Grainier’s existence in the world. The main character of “Train Dreams” is not a great thinker, artist or athlete. He doesn’t know who his parents are, or even exactly how old he is. He’s not particularly chatty, or passionate. Robert Grainier is a man, portrayed by a bearded, Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) During his glittering career, George Clooney has played a casino thief, a Batman,a chain-gang convict, an assassin and a high-flying layoff artist. This fall, he’s stretching even more, playing an utterly charming and gorgeous movie star. Kidding! Reality and fiction beautifully weave in and out in “Jay Kelly,” director Noah Baumbach’s love letter to Hollywood Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) It sounds rather like a mixed compliment to say of an actor that he’s persuasive at playing, well, a mediocre actor. But then, this is Brendan Fraser we’re talking about. The man seems to become more emphatically human with each role, each passing year, each new wrinkle. And what’s more human, or at least more Read More 

WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump denounced ABC News’ Mary Bruce as a “terrible reporter” Tuesday and threatened the network’s license to broadcast after she asked him three sharp questions at the White House. The network’s chief White House correspondent was among reporters let into the Oval Office to question the president and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Read More 

NEW YORK The Camp Kuleshov trailer competition for emerging creative artists in postproduction–a.k.a. Camp K–recognized its winning and honorable mention entries at events in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. Trophies were bestowed in recognition of outstanding achievement in the categories of Editing, Sound Design and Graphics, as well as the Music Score category. Designed to give Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) It’s no magic trick: The third installment in the thieving magician “Now You See Me” series beat the high-profile action pic “The Running Man” at the North American box office this weekend. Lionsgate’s “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” pulled in $21.3 million, while Paramount’s “The Running Man” made $17 million, according to studio Read More 

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