LOS ANGELES Cinematographer Lol Crawley, BSC and production designer Judy Becker collaborated for the first time on The Brutalist (A24) and emerged as Oscar nominees in their respective  disciplines. Their work on the film has also earned major recognition elsewhere on the industry awards circuit. Just this week, Crawley won the British Society of Cinematographers’ Feature Film Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Eugene Levy’s trademark eyebrows fly off for Little Caesars. A tongue dances to Shania Twain to promote Nestle’s Coffee Mate Cold Foam. And Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal reunite at Katz’s Deli in an ad for Hellmann’s. A frenzied mix of silliness and celebrities is hitting the airwaves and the internet, and that means one Read More 

LONDON The Brutalist, Brady Corbet’s immigrant saga, won the Film of the Year prize at the 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards. While The Brutalist garnered just one award, it was the marquee honor. Meanwhile Nickel Boys, Conclave and A Real Pain all receivd multiple awards, and Zoe Saldaña was honored twice. Edward Berger’s Vatican thriller Read More 

LONDON For his work on The Brutalist, Lol Crawley, BSC has earned Best Cinematography in a Feature Film at the 69th British Society of Cinematographers Awards on Saturday evening (2/1). The awards ceremony at the Royal Lancaster Hotel was emceed by Edith Bowman and drew some 450 attendees. This marked Crawley’s first BSC Award win–for his Read More 

CANNES, France (AP) Juliette Binoche will preside over the jury for the the 78th Cannes Film Festival, festival organizers announced Tuesday. Binoche will succeed last year’s jury president, Greta Gerwig, making this the second time Cannes has had back-to-back female jury heads. Binoche, the French actor, has been a mainstay at Cannes over the years. She first appeared Read More 

AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) “Another Simple Favor,” Paul Feig’s sequel to his 2018 noir comedy starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively, will open the SXSW Film and TV Festival. Organizers of the Austin, Texas, festival announced Tuesday that the long-awaited “A Simple Flavor” sequel will kick of this year’s edition on March 7. The Amazon MGM release plots another Read More 

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) The war satire “Atropia,” about actors in a military role-playing facility, won the grand jury prize in the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. dramatic competition, while the Dylan O’Brien movie “Twinless” got the coveted audience award. Juries and programmers for the 41st edition of the independent film festival announced the major prizewinners Friday in Park City, Read More 

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) Film wasn’t the only thing on people’s minds at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, which comes to a close Sunday in Park City, Utah ( and online ). The effects of the wildfires in Southern California loomed large, as did the bittersweet knowledge that this year will be the second to last Sundance based in Read More 

PARK CITY, Utah The Sundance Film Festival today (2/2) announced its final award for the 2025 edition: Come See Me in the Good Light in the Premieres category received the Festival Favorite Award. The honor was voted on by the audiences from all the new feature films presented at the 2025 Festival. Other award winners were previously announced Read More 

NEW YORK “Short Life Stories,” created by Bensimon Byrne Toronto on behalf of White Ribbon, is the top winner in the global 2024 ONE Screen Short Film Festival, the premiere short film festival produced by The One Club for Creativity celebrating global filmmakers from both commercial advertising and film industries. “Short Life Stories” tells a fictional story Read More 

NEW YORK RadicalMedia has added director Carlos López Estrada to its roster of talent for representation in the U.S. across film and branded content. López Estrada’s groundbreaking career spans feature films, animation, music videos, and commercial campaigns. Prior to joining RadicalMedia, López Estrada was most recently on the spotmaking roster of Nexus Productions. López Estrada’s directorial achievements Read More 

LOS ANGELES BLOK–a directing duo consisting of Paul Casey and Richard Jobson–has joined the roster of production house Chromista for U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content. BLOK’s ability to masterfully execute memorable funny commercials is informed by their past individual experiences creating comedy series across the world for the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Sky, and Netflix. Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) A Texas crisis communications specialist has sued Blake Lively for defamation after the actor pulled him into her legal fight with co-star and director Justin Baldoni over their film, “It Ends With Us.” Jed Wallace and his company, Street Relations, filed the $7 million lawsuit in federal court in Texas on Tuesday. It says he Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) A federal judge presiding over the heated public feud between actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni over whether sexual harassment occurred during the making of “It Ends With Us” warned lawyers Monday to obey court rules about public statements meant to ensure a fair trial. Judge Lewis J. Liman suggested he could make the March Read More 

LOS ANGELES For their work on “Conclave,” “Nosferatu” and “Wicked,” respectively, costume designers Lisy Christl, CDG, Linda Muir and Paul Tazwell, CDG topped the feature categories at the 27th Costume Designers Guild Awards ceremony on Thursday night (2/6) in Los Angeles. “Conclave” won for Costume Design Excellence in Contemporary Film, “Nosferatu” for Excellence in Period Film, and Read More 

LOS ANGELES Executive producer Johnny Parker has launched Future Craft, a content production studio which opens with a directorial roster that includes Brennan Stasiewicz, Henry Mason, We the Grimshaws, Kai Kurve, Sune Sorensen, Tim Hamilton, Jennifer Roberts, Little Village, Marcus Lundin, and Shaunoh Wilson. Parker had been at the helm of production company Hey Baby which after Read More 

LONDON BBH London has hired three senior creative teams who come over from Mother, Uncommon and House 337. They will work as “striker teams” across BBH’s portfolio of brands and report into Felipe Serradourada Guimaraes, who was recently promoted to executive creative director. Returning to BBH from Uncommon is the creative duo of Ash Hamilton and Read More 

NEW YORK Late Shift, the production company founded by executive producer John Hollingsworth and director Matt Genesis, has added director Sophia Prestwich to its roster. “Sophia has an incredible ability to capture intimate moments with a style that feels beautifully impactful,” said Hollingsworth. “Her work often reflects her unique perspective as a mother and her passion for Read More 

LOS ANGELES Thinking Machine has signed filmmaker Megan Brotherton for her first commercial representation. A multi-hyphenate talent, she is gaining a reputation for directing high profile comedy commercials–and making the occasional cameo–for brands such as Microsoft, Nerds, Oikos, Walmart, Nintendo, Kohl’s and more recently Maybelline, her first campaign produced by Thinking Machine for NBCU Creative Partnerships for Read More 

LOS ANGELES Monument Content has signed director Cassandra “Cassie” Brooksbank for U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content. She brings to her directing and storytelling the experience and skills of a writer, conceptual artist, editor and visual effects artist. Her body of work as a director includes Pepsi’s “Selfie” featuring Lionel Messi amid a flurry of fans, Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Disney easily topped first-quarter expectations thanks in part to the box office smash “Moana 2.” There were some oversized expectations for the animated film but “Moana 2”, originally intended as a series for the company’s streaming service before it was produced for the big screen — blew predictions out of the water. Its five-day opening Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) A mother is called to her child’s school for an urgent meeting with his teachers in the Norwegian film “Armand,” a riff on a claustrophobic courtroom thriller set in a primary school classroom. The film, which won the best first feature prize at Cannes last year, dolls out bits and pieces of information slowly and Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) We have by now become accustomed to the lengths some movie characters will go to keep a good comedy lie going. But it’s still a special kind of feat when Amy Schumer, playing a baby-mad single woman who fakes a baby bump in “Kinda Pregnant,” is so desperate to maintain the fiction that she shoves Read More 

PARIS (AP) A Paris court found a filmmaker guilty of sexual assault on French actor Adèle Haenel when she was between 12 and 15 in the early 2000s, in the country’s first big #MeToo trial. Filmmaker Christophe Ruggia was sentenced Monday to two years under house arrest with an electronic bracelet plus a two-year suspended sentence. Ruggia Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Beyoncé has won album of the year for “Cowboy Carter” at the 2025 Grammys, delivering her — at last — the show’s elusive top award. The superstar, who is both the most awarded and nominated artist in Grammys history, has been up for the category four times before and many feel she has been snubbed Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) DreamWorks Animation’s “Dog Man” fetched $36 million in ticket sales at the weekend box office, according to studio estimates Sunday, making it the biggest debut yet in 2025. It was a big opening for the Universal Pictures release adapted from the popular graphic novel series by author Dav Pilkey. The big-screen launch for the cartoon Read More 

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