LOS ANGELES One road show spawns another. For director Neels Castillon the first tour took a full year as he headed a crew capturing stunning visuals in 8K, lensing spectacular landscapes in locales ranging from the Namib Desert to Polynesia, Iceland and varied destinations in South America. Filmed in these settings were actors/dancers reinterpreting classic scenes from Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Ballet is beautiful. Ballet is ethereal. Ballet is mysterious. Can ballet also be cool? The creators of the new Prime Video show “Étoile” – Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” fame — are betting yes. Or, shall we say “oui” – the show is split between New York and Paris as Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw didn’t realize she was going to make history on “Sinners.” The Ryan Coogler film, now playing in theaters nationwide, marks the first time a female director of photography has shot a movie on large format IMAX film. It was Kodak executive Vanessa Bendetti who texted her the news. “I smiled at Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, Rihanna,Travis Kelce and Simone Biles all won honors at the Webby Awards, which recognize the best internet content and creators. The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences announced winners Tuesday in a variety of categories. The 29th annual ceremony will take place at Cipriani Wall Street in New York on Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Oscar voters will no longer be able to skip watching some of the nominated films. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on Monday announced that members will from now on be required to watch all nominated films in each category to be eligible to vote in the final round of Oscar voting. Up Read More 

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) “Andor” returns for its second season on Disney+ with a three-episode premiere Tuesday and the weight of the “Star Wars” galaxy seemingly on its shoulders. But creator Tony Gilroy says he and his collaborators felt little pressure from Disney and Lucasfilm as they sought to tell the story of a growing revolutionary resentment against the Read More 

THE VATICAN (AP) Speculation surrounding a conclave to elect a pope is a time-honored tradition. But for the impending conclave following the death of Pope Francis, the ranks of armchair Vatican experts have swelled thanks to Hollywood. “Conclave” the film, a moody 2024 political thriller, introduced many laypeople to the ancient selection process with its arcane rules and Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Charles Burnett has been living with “Killer of Sheep” for more than half a century. Burnett, 81, shot “Killer of Sheep” on black-and-white 16mm in the early 1970s for less than $10,000. Originally Burnett’s thesis film at UCLA, it was completed in 1978. In the coming years, “Killer of Sheep” would be hailed as a Read More 

CHICAGO Multicultural advertising agency Burrell Communications Group, headquartered in Chicago, has acquired Atlanta-based Fitzco, a 42 year-old full-service marketing agency. Effective immediately, the move signals Burrell’s first building block in its plan to create BCG Worldwide, the first Black-owned agency network. Founded in 1983 by Dave Fitzgerald, Fitzco is a mid-sized independent agency specializing in strategy, Read More 

LOS ANGELES & LONDON David Wilson has joined the global directing roster of Biscuit Filmworks for commercial representation. An eclectic storyteller, Wilson expertly weaves together rich, textured, character-filled worlds with inherent musicality, playfulness, and sophisticated execution. His career encompasses large-scale campaigns, genre-defining music videos, and captivating short films. Wilson’s brand collaborations include Nike, Apple, Facebook, Etsy, Ikea, O2, Cadbury, Read More 

LONDON Multi award-winning director Keith McCarthy has joined the global roster at Pulse Films. With a background in screenwriting, McCarthy has a deep understanding of structure, pacing, comedic and emotional tone–skills that underpin everything he directs from stylized 30-second spots to longer-form narrative campaigns. His work has earned recognition from BAFTA, Cannes Lions, D&AD, and the Read More 

LONDON & LOS ANGELES Ramez “Mezzy” Silyan has signed with Stink for commercial and music video representation across the U.K. and U.S. markets, as well as in Ireland, Amsterdam, and Canada. Silyan brings the cultural weight of stardom to the screen with a striking visual language, working with names like Sydney Sweeney, Charli XCX, Post Malone, and Blackpink’s Rosé. Read More 

DALLAS Director Mikko Lehtinen has joined The Board of Directors for exclusive U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content. Brandon Tapp, executive producer at The Board of Directors, said of Lehtinen, “His work immediately caught our eye with its refined aesthetic and effortlessly global perspective–cinematic, elevated, and unconstrained by genre or geography. With a sharp visual Read More 

WASHINGTON (AP) Google is confronting an existential threat as the U.S. government tries to break up the company as punishment for turning its revolutionary search engine into an illegal monopoly. The drama began to unfold Monday in a Washington courtroom as three weeks of hearings kicked off to determine how the company should be penalized for operating Read More 

NEW YORK The 2025 Tribeca Festival has unveiled its short film lineup, featuring selections across narrative, documentary, animated works, and music videos. Taking place June 4–15 in New York City, the program is curated to inspire, challenge and captivate audiences. Year over year, the Tribeca Shorts program continues to break records for submissions, and 2025 is no Read More 

BERLIN (AP) Jacob Elordi is gearing up for another busy year. He’ll soon be seen in Guillermo del Toro’s much-anticipated “Frankenstein” and is currently filming Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights.” But during a recent interview in Berlin, Elordi, complete with wild curly Heathcliff hair and sideburns, had his TV series “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” on Read More 

LONDON (AP) It’s hard to imagine what it’s like to have the most traumatic event of your life reenacted as television drama. For one Brazilian family, it is cathartic. “I want them to see the reality that my boy was innocent,” said 80-year-old Maria de Menezes, whose son was shot dead by London police in 2005 after Read More 

TOKYO (AP) The highspeed bullet train says Japan as much as Godzilla, sushi and Mount Fuji. And it takes center stage in Shinji Higuchi’s new film, “Bullet Train Explosion,” which premieres on Netflix Wednesday. Higuchi, the director of the 2016 “Shin Godzilla” (or “New Godzilla,”) has reimagined the 1975 Japanese film “The Bullet Train,” which has the Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Hovering in the doorway of her roommate’s bedroom one evening in July 2006, TV production assistant Miriam Haley said Harvey Weinstein — her boss — had forcibly performed oral sex on her, her then-roommate testified Thursday at the ex-movie mogul’s retrial. “I said, ‘Miriam, that sounds like rape. I think you should call a lawyer,'” Read More 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Former employees of OpenAI are asking the top law enforcement officers in California and Delaware to stop the company from shifting control of its artificial intelligence technology from a nonprofit charity to a for-profit business. They’re concerned about what happens if the ChatGPT maker fulfills its ambition to build AI that outperforms humans, but is Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) “The Legend of Ochi,” a scrappy and darkly whimsical fable about a misunderstood teenage girl on a dangerous quest, has the feeling of a film you might have stumbled on and loved as a kid. Something tactile, something fantastical and, maybe, something a little dangerous — the kind of movie you knew you probably weren’t Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Muriel, a waitress in 1950s America, seems to be the quintessential June Cleaver. She’s got a loving husband, a suburban house with a white picket fence in California and nice outfits. But not everything is as it seems, like her secret gambling. And her eye for a neighbor. “On Swift Horses,” based on Shannon Pufahl’s Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Hordes of horror films line up for Halloween and a sleigh full of Christmas movies arrive annually in December, but there is slightly less competition around the paper-pushing rite of Tax Day. Yet on the heels of tax season, here is “The Accountant 2,” Gavin O’Connor’s sequel to the 2016 film that did not, exactly, Read More 

LONDON (AP) European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of euros Wednesday as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc’s digital competition rules. The European Commission imposed a 500 million euro ($571 million) fine on Apple for preventing app makers from pointing users to cheaper options outside its App Store. The commission, which Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Brand names, not filmmakers or stars, are said to rule the box office these days. But Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” led by twin Michael B. Jordans, proved a bloody exception to modern movie rules, launching with $45.6 million in ticket sales in U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday. “Sinners,” a Warner Bros. release Read More 

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