LOS ANGELES The collaborative bond between editors Shelly Westerman, ACE and Payton Koch runs deep–but is only partially reflected in a rundown of their shared industry experience and awards. On the awards score, their work as a team on episodes of Only Murders in the Building (Hulu) garnered them ACE Eddie Award nominations in 2023, ‘24 and Read More 

ATHENS, Ga. The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors has unveiled the winners selected to represent the most captivating and inspiring stories released in broadcasting and streaming media during 2024. The winners were chosen by a unanimous vote of 27 jurors from over 1,000 entries from television, podcasts/radio and the web in entertainment, news, documentary, arts, children’s/youth, public Read More 

NEW YORK The Gotham Film & Media Institute has unveiled the nominations in 12 competitive award categories for the 2025 Gotham Television Awards, recognizing a range of series, including Adolescence, The Pitt and The Studio as well as performances from Kathy Bates, Sterling K. Brown, Ted Danson, Linda Lavin, Cristin Milioti, and Michelle Williams, among others. Adolescence Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Steven Spielberg proclaimed “The Godfather” the “greatest American film ever made,” Robert De Niro teasingly bemoaned being cast in the sequel and not the original and Harrison Ford fought back tears reflecting on his role in the 1974 film, “The Conversation.” At the center of it all was Francis Ford Coppola, who on Saturday received Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) “Top Gun: Maverick” filmmaker Joseph Kosinski came to Formula One like many Americans: “Drive to Survive.” In that popular Netflix series, he saw the potential for a cinematic event, full of immersive thrills, the high stakes of the competitive racing world and the idea that your teammate could be your greatest rival. “I don’t think Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Martin Scorsese is a producing a documentary made with Pope Francis that will chronicle the late pontiff’s work with cinema in the global educational movement he founded before his death. “Aldeas — A New Story” will feature conversations between Pope Francis and Scorsese, including what the filmmakers say are the Pope’s final in-depth on-camera interview Read More 

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) Mon Mothma was first introduced to “Star Wars” fans as the rebel leader who appears only long enough to move the plot forward by delivering battle plans in hushed tones. But in the last moments of the most recent “Andor” episodes on Disney+ (spoilers for already released episodes ahead) she is a patrician senator who, Read More 

WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged “bias” in the broadcasters’ reporting. The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies “to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS” and further requires that that they work to root Read More 

LOS ANGELES At its regularly scheduled, two-day, in person plenary which wrapped Sunday (4/27), SAG-AFTRA’s National Board overwhelmingly approved the 2025 Commercials Contracts tentative agreements reached with the Joint Policy Committee on April 12. The agreements will now be submitted to the membership for ratification. One-year streaming use fees have been increased by up to 33.33% to Read More 

LONDON Creative confidence, the belief in bold and original creative ideas as a driver of business success, is being knocked by the inability to develop high-quality insights and a lack of cultural agility. These are top findings outlined in The State of Creativity 2025, released today by Lions. The annual study serves as a practical tool Read More 

CANNES, France The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has launched the 2025 content program, showcasing a world-class lineup of global thought leaders, pioneering brands and cultural changemakers from across the spectrum of creativity. Natasha Woodwal, director of content, Lions, said, “This year’s content program reflects the immense transformation underway in the creative industries. From a record Read More 

CANNES, France The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has named its 2025 Cannes LionHeart: Sonita Alizadeh. One of the Festival’s most prestigious awards, the LionHeart accolade is given to a person who has harnessed their position to make a significant and positive difference to the world around us. Through her work as the first professional Afghan Read More 

NEW YORK The AMP Awards for Music & Sound, sponsored by the Association of Music Producers, has released its Shortlist for the 2025 competition and saluted the work of its Curatorial Committee as it gears up for its 12th awards presentation, set for May 21st at Sony Hall in New York City. Leading the shortlist this year Read More 

LOS ANGELES The International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) has released the tentative results of its 2025 national election. John Lindley, ASC, has been elected as the new national president, returning to the role he held from March 2020 through June 2022, succeeding outgoing president Baird Benton Steptoe Sr. Each of the newly elected officers were Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) He’s a dream in the kitchen — and elsewhere in the house. He makes a mean cream-puff tower. And he’s got moves like Jagger. Alas, Antonin Carême has been dead since the 1830s, but nobody’s perfect, right? Most people have heard of Napoleon, but not many are familiar — even in France — with the Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Superman already has a lot on his broad shoulders. It seems unfair to add the fate of Hollywood to his worries. But that’s the kind of pressure that comes with being one of the biggest stars in the comic book universe, who is getting a grand reintroduction at a tumultuous time. Thankfully he’s not doing Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) In true Clark Kent form, the new Superman would like to correct the record. David Corenswet gave an interview to Entertainment Weekly in 2019 where he said his “pie in the sky ambition” was to play Superman. At that point, the role was not on the market. And Corenswet, a Julliard graduate and Philadelphia native, Read More 

LAS VEGAS (AP) Abel Tesfaye has always known he wanted to pursue a career in cinema. He sees his meteoric rise to fame as one of today’s biggest pop superstars under the moniker The Weeknd as a detour to make that happen. Nearly two years after he made his acting debut with HBO’s “The Idol,” which he co-created Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Harvey Weinstein ‘s lawyers got their turn Thursday to question a woman who alleges the one-time Hollywood heavyweight held her down and forced oral sex on her nearly two decades ago. Miriam Haley, testifying for a third day at Weinstein’s rape retrial, was grilled about details of her recollections — such as exactly how she Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley paid tribute Sunday to Bill Owens, the show’s executive producer who resigned last week, saying on the air that “none of us is happy” about the extra supervision that corporate leaders are imposing. Pelley made his comments at the end of the evening’s CBS News telecast, saying that in quitting, Read More 

LONDON Pulse has added director Kojaque to its talent roster for global representation spanning commercials and music videos. This partnership, which marks his first representation, follows the release of “A Cowboy Song,” the second chapter in a striking visual trilogy for fellow Irish artist Kean Kavanagh. Hailing from Cabra, Dublin, Kevin Smith–known professionally as Kojaque–has made Read More 

LOS ANGELES Los Films, the film discipline of the creative studio Los York, has signed Emmy Award winner Eric Andre for commercial representation in the U.S. The creator of the popular and provocative late-night comedy series The Eric Andre Show on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, Andre has been leading a double life honing his craft behind the Read More 

BROOKLYN, NY Commercial production company REVERSE has signed Elisa Baudoin, a French director known for her ability to craft immersive, dreamlike worlds that blend pop aesthetics, fine art and experimental cinema. This marks her first U.S. representation. She continues to be repped in France by production house Loveboat. With a background in theater, fashion, and photography, Baudoin Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Surely, bringing an audience to tears with a poignant ending is something every filmmaker dreams of. And yet the moment that inspires a genuine, unambiguous tear in “Rust” is born of a true nightmare. “…for Halyna,” the screen reads as the film comes to a close. Halyna Hutchins’ name also appears in Ukrainian. And we’re Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) As they so often do in Marvel Land, worlds collide in “Thunderbolts.” But in this refreshingly earthbound iteration of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the collision isn’t a matter of interplanetary strife. “Thunderbolts” has been touted as the unlikely meeting of two of the dominant forces in 21st century American movies: Marvel and A24. This isn’t Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Whatever cruelness you might assign to the month, Dea Kulumbegashvili’s “April” probably has it beat. Kulumbegashvili’s shattering, sensational film is set in a hardscrabble, provincial region of Georgia, the Eastern European country. Nina (Ia Sukhitashvili) is the leading obstetrician at the local hospital and she leads a punishing life. In the film’s opening scenes, she Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) For a long, sun-addled stretch, Lorcan Finnegan’s beach-set “The Surfer” simmers as a deliciously punishing nightmare, driving Nicolas Cage into his most natural state: a boil. “Don’t live here, don’t surf here,” is the slogan at a pristine stretch of beach along Luna Bay on the Australian coast where our unnamed protagonist (Cage) has come Read More 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) After retreating from their workplace diversity, equity and inclusion programs, tech companies could now face a second reckoning over their DEI work in AI products. In the White House and the Republican-led Congress, “woke AI” has replaced harmful algorithmic discrimination as a problem that needs fixing. Past efforts to “advance equity” in AI development and Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Horror movies are often one-week wonders at the box office, but Ryan Coogler’s”Sinners” is defying the odds and proving to be true event cinema. In its second weekend in theaters, “Sinners” earned $45 million in ticket sales from theaters in the U.S. and Canada, according to studio estimates Sunday. That’s down a miniscule 6% from Read More 

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