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 Issue Date: 03/24/2025 | Click headlines for full story, pics, video or to comment
SHOOT News of the Day
Body Camera Footage Is Released Showing Scene Outside The Home Of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa
Authorities have released body camera footage from outside the home of Gene Hackman, where the actor and wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead in late February. The redacted footage shows deputies talking with the two workers who called authorities to report seeing someone lying on the floor inside the home. With no signs of forced
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Oscar-Winning Palestinian Director Is Attacked By Israeli Settlers and Detained By The Army
Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary film “No Other Land” on Monday in the occupied West Bank before he was detained by the Israeli military, according to two of his fellow directors and other witnesses. The filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was one of three Palestinians detained in the village
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Gérard Depardieu’s Trial Gets Underway In Paris For Alleged Sexual Assaults On Film Set
French actor Gérard Depardieu went on trial Monday in Paris on charges of sexually assaulting two women on a movie set, in a case seen as a potential watershed for the #MeToo movement in France. Depardieu, 76, is accused of having groped a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant director during filming in 2021
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R&R Partners Ups Michon Martin To CEO; Billy Vassiliadis Shifts To Agency Chairmanship
R&R Partners has elevated Michon Martin from president to CEO, succeeding Billy Vassiliadis who shifts into the role of chairman at the Las Vegas agency which marks 50 years in business with a track record that includes iconic campaigns such as “What Happens in Vegas…Stays in Vegas” for the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority.
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Golden LA Signs Filmmaker and Designer dayday For U.S. Representation
Golden LA has added dayday–a multidisciplinary creative whose work navigates the intersection of film, design, creative direction, and photography–to its roster for U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content. With a distinctive approach that blends minimalism, stillness, and striking imagery, day has directed projects which have earned recognition from the Cannes Lions, AICP Awards and
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Curfew Signs Directors Quinn Meyers, Paul Sam Johnston and Kaius Potter For Spots and Branded Content
Bicoastal production house Curfew has added three directors to its roster, signing Quinn Meyers, Paul Sam Johnston, and Kaius Potter for U.S. representation in commercials and branded content. This is the first U.S. representation for all three filmmakers. Johnston is repped in Canada by Denim, and Potter in Australia by Entropico. A multi-hyphenate creator, Meyers
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Imagine This Studio Expands Its Roster With 4 New Directors, 13 AI Artists
Creative studio Imagine This, celebrating its one-year anniversary, continues to build its roster with the signing of four directors. Additionally 13 artificial intelligence artists have come aboard its AI arm, Made by Humans. Joining the Imagine This traditional live-action director lineup are: –Hot Icarus, the filmmaking duo consisting of Wij Travers and Giles Rozier, who
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Netflix Documentary Takes Us To Missouri To Revisit Devastating Tornado In 2011
The horror of the Joplin tornado is the subject of a new documentary film, released nearly 14 years after the twister struck Missouri with cataclysmic force, ripping into a hospital, destroying neighborhoods and killing around 160. “You see pictures of World War II, the devastation and all that with the bombing,” Kerry Sachetta, then the
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Conan O’Brien Accepts Mark Twain Prize As Politics Roils The Kennedy Center
On a night when half a dozen people made jokes about this being the last-ever Mark Twain Prize, Conan O’Brien made sure the ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ended on a high note. O’Brien accepted the award for lifetime achievement in comedy Sunday night while acknowledging the backstage turmoil
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Camp Kuleshov Grand Prize Winners Unveiled In Editing, Graphics, Sound Design and Music Score
The Camp Kuleshov trailer competition for emerging creative artists in postproduction–a.k.a. Camp K–has unveiled the winners of its Grand Prizes in the categories of Editing, Graphics, Sound Design and Music Score. Named for the famed Russian film theorist Lev Kuleshov, the Lev Awards were chosen from among the first place winners in the Camp K
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“Snow White” Tops Weekend Box Office With A Lackluster $43 Million
The Walt Disney Co.’s live-action, controversy-bedeviled “Snow White” opened in theaters with a sleepy $43 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. With a budget above $250 million, “Snow White” had set out with higher ambitions, particularly since it returns Disney to its very origins. The 1937 original “Snow White and the Seven
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Issue Date: 03/24/2025 | Click headlines for full story, pics, video or to comment
SPW News of the Day
Camp K Lev Winners Announced
The Camp Kuleshov trailer competition for emerging creative artists in post production – a.k.a. Camp K – has announced the winners of its Grand Prizes in the categories of Editing, Graphics, Sound Design and Music Score. Named for the famed Russian film theorist Lev Kuleshov, the Lev Awards were chosen from among the First Place
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Ross Coulthart, One of the World’s Leading UAP Journalists, and Bryce Zabel, Producer of Dark Skies, Join Remarkable Speaker Lineup at Contact In The Desert 2025
Ross Coulthart, renowned UAP/UFO broadcast journalist and host of NewsNation’s Reality Check, and Bryce Zabel, Emmy Award-winning producer of TV’s Dark Skies, will be appearing in tandem at the Contact In The Desert Conference (CITD), May 29 – June 2, 2025, at the beautiful Renaissance Esmeralda Resort and Spa in Indian Wells, CA. CITD audiences can attend
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“Safe Sets” Documentary Welcomes Producer Becky Morrison
Becky Morrison, Founder & CEO of The Light, has joined the documentary film Safe Sets: Dying To Work in the Film Industry as a producer. Morrison is an advocate for change in the industry, with a focus on creating healthy, inclusive, sustainable environments on set. “We are absolutely thrilled to have Becky Morrison join our
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DWA Presents Ultimate Events, March 2025 Edition (Hybrid Special)
Heads up, friends: More than 70 exciting Ultimate Events are about to pop. Over the years, these updates have presented thousands of opportunities to advance knowledge, sharpen skills, leap into world-class entertainment experiences, and connect with your inspirations. With the ever-expanding reach of online access, our chances to learn, grow, and engage are soaring. Sending
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