LOS ANGELES As in years past, varied artists SHOOT interviewed for phase one of its The Road To Emmy Series have gone on to land nominations from TV Academy voters. Among them this time around is first-time nominee Philip Barantini whose work on Adolescence (Netflix) has been recognized in the Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Read More 

TORONTO (AP) Films starring Sydney Sweeney, Angelina Jolie and Aziz Ansari will premiere at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival, festival organizers announced Monday. TIFF laid out the selections to its galas and special presentations programs, which make up the bulk of the red carpet premieres to North America’s largest film festival. Films making their world premieres include Read More 

LOS ANGELES As SHOOT celebrates a milestone, its 65th year of publication, we continue a recently launched series of interviews and features that will run throughout the summer on SHOOTonline and in SHOOT‘s newsletters and special PDF Issue with digital distribution in which industry executives, creatives and artists reflect on the changes they’ve seen over the decades, Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Emma Stone, Dwayne Johnson, Adam Sandler and Idris Elba are just some of the celebrities headlining films at this year’s Venice International Film Festival. Organizers on Tuesday unveiled the starry lineup for its 82nd edition, which kicks off a busy fall film festival season in August. Two years after launching “Poor Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt” will open the 63rd New York Film Festival, Film at Lincoln Center announced Wednesday. “After the Hunt” will first premiere at the Venice Film Festival, but on Sept. 26, it will kick off the New York Film Festival. An Amazon MGM Studios release due out this fall, it stars Julia Read More 

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) Tens of thousands of fans — many in costumes — descended Thursday on Comic-Con International, the four-day pop culture spectacle that will feature updates on the new “Predator” movie, “Alien” series and a special appearance by George Lucas. Fans packed into the convention’s famed Hall H for updates on the “Five Nights at Freddy’s” sequel Read More 

LONDON (AP) “Washington Black” just seemed destined for a screen adaptation. The 2018 novel by Canadian writer Esi Edugyan caught actor Sterling K. Brown’s eye. As he put the wheels in motion, things just started to line up in a most un-Hollywood fashion — so much so that Brown started to believe strongly the project was meant Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) “Happy Gilmore” was born on the range. When Adam Sandler was a kid growing up in New Hampshire, his father was an avid golfer. He’d often take his son along to hit balls at the driving range. But Sandler was uninterested in the sport, and usually got antsy. “Why don’t you bring a friend?” his Read More 

NEW YORK Saatchi & Saatchi, the global creative agency known for reimagining what is possible, today announced the appointment of Ben Grossman as President of the agency’s New York office. In this role, Grossman will be responsible for driving new business growth and elevating the agency’s creative excellence. Most recently serving as President at Stagwell’s Doner, Grossman Read More 

LONDON Ayappa, a leading influential director in India whose work has garnered recognition from Cannes Lions, D&AD, Spikes, AdFest and more, has signed with Stink for representation across Europe, North and South America. He continues to maintain the production company Early Man which handles him in India. Ayappa’s series of genre-defining spots for Jindal–”The Steel of Read More 

LOS ANGELES Eleanor, the production house under the aegis of president Sophie Gold, has brought director Danielle Calodney aboard its roster for U.S. representation. Already Calodney and Eleanor have teamed on a series of short, character-driven, social-first comedy films for HomeGoods out of agency Mindshare. Part of the “Back to Campus” creative campaign, the films follow the Read More 

LOS ANGELES Production company Institute has brought Danish director Casper Balslev aboard its roster for U.S. commercial representation. A cinephile from a young age, Balslev studied photojournalism at the Danish College of Journalism and started his career in documentary, fashion, and street photography before transitioning to directing. His cinematic and defining short films for the fashion brand Read More 

LOS ANGELES Golden LA has signed award-winning director Allie Avital for U.S. commercial representation. Avital has a body of work which spans music videos, short films, and commercial campaigns. Her directing credits include brands such as Google, YouTube, Pfizer, Beats by Dre, Starbucks, KFC, Vogue, and the City of New York, as well as collaborations with iconic Read More 

BROOKLYN, NY Live-action, tabletop and postproduction company SCHROM x Yacht Club is expanding its creative offerings with the addition of CGI tabletop directing duo B&b for U.S. representation. This marks the first production company signing for B&b, which consists of Ben Webber and Britta McPherson. Webber and McPherson bring a distinct blend of photoreal CGI and cinematic Read More 

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. Director/photographer AJ Bleyer–who’s collaborated with brands including Ferrari, McLaren F1, Aston Martin, Red Bull, Riot Games, and Amazon–has signed with Schofield’s Flowers for exclusive representation in the experiential space. The formalization of the relationship between Bleyer and the multifaceted creative production outfit comes on the heels of a yearlong collaboration spanning short form branded films Read More 

LOS ANGELES Production company Invisible Collective has added Canadian director, producer and screenwriter Allan Ungar to its roster for exclusive commercial representation in the U.S. Ungar is best known for directing the viral “Uncharted” live-action fan film starring Nathan Fillion, which premiered at Comic-Con and garnered over 17 million views. Ungar’s breakout feature, “Bandit,” starring Josh Duhamel, Read More 

CBS says its decision to end Stephen Colbert’s late-night comedy show is financial, not political. Yet even with the ample skepticism about that explanation, there’s no denying the economics were not working in Colbert’s favor. The network’s bombshell announcement late Thursday that the “Late Show” will end next May takes away President Donald Trump’s most prominent TV Read More 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Google’s accelerating shift into artificial intelligence helped propel its corporate parent to another quarter of solid growth while a crackdown on its internet empire looms in the background. The results released Wednesday for the April-June period provided the latest sign that Google is deftly navigating the technological landscape’s tilt toward AI while still capitalizing on Read More 

HOLLYWOOD (AP) More than six decades after Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created a superhero team to rival the Justice League, the Fantastic Four finally get a worthy big-screen adaption in a spiffy ’60s-era romp, bathed in retrofuturism and bygone American optimism. Though the Fantastic Four go to the very origins of Marvel Comics, their movie forays have been Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) The modern dating scene is not a healthy one. Perhaps it never really was and everyone is nostalgic for something that didn’t exist. But you don’t need to be on the apps to sense the anxiety around. Just open the New York Times Magazine site and scroll through the 1,200 comments on Jean Garnett’s “The Read More 

LOS ANGELES As location shoots in Greater Los Angeles decline, there’s hope that this trend can be reversed with the implementaiton of California expanded tax credit. FilmLA, partner film office for the City and County of Los Angeles and other local juristictions, issued an update regarding regional filming activity while heralding the legislative effort to help revitalize Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Netflix’s new reality show, “Building the Band,” unexpectedly became Liam Payne’s last major appearance — moments the show’s hosts say they, along with contestants and viewers, are lucky to have. The show features Payne as a guest judge, offering pointed but witty advice to young bands chasing success not unlike what he achieved as part Read More 

A lawyer for the maker of the video game Call of Duty argued Friday that a judge should dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of the victims of the Robb Elementary School attack in Uvalde, Texas, saying the contents of the war game are protected by the First Amendment. The families sued Call of Duty maker Activision Read More 

WASHINGTON (AP) Former President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, seen by some as the problem child of the Democratic Party for legal and drug-related woes that brought negative attention to his father, is lashing out against Democratic “elites” and others over the way he says his father was treated during last year’s presidential campaign. Hunter Biden spoke publicly in Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) James Gunn’s “Superman” showed staying power in its second weekend at North American box offices, collecting $57.3 million in ticket sales and remaining the No. 1 movie in cinemas, according to studio estimates Sunday. None of the week’s new releases — “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” “Smurfs,” and “Eddington” — came close to touching Read More 

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