LOS ANGELES When Gary Baum, ASC won his fourth career Emmy Award earlier this month, it was especially gratifying in that the honor came in a category–Outstanding Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Half-Hour Series–that had been restored thanks in part to a grass-roots initiative among cinematographers to drum up entries. Last year the category fell by the wayside Read More 

TORONTO (AP) The Toronto International Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award went to “The Life of Chuck,” handing director-writer Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation one of the most-watched prizes of the fall film festival circuit. The award for “The Life of Chuck” was announced Sunday (9/15) as North American’s largest film festival drew to a close. “The Life Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) “Shogun” had historic wins in an epic 18-Emmy first season, “Hacks” scored an upset for best comedy on what was still a four-trophy night for “The Bear,” and “Baby Reindeer” had a holiday at an Emmy Awards that had some surprising swerves. “Shogun,” the FX series about power struggles in feudal Japan, won best drama Read More 

TOKYO (AP) Japan erupted with joy Monday as the samurai series “Shogun” won a record 18 Emmys for its first season. It took home prizes including Outstanding Drama Series, as star and co-producer Hiroyuki Sanada became the first Japanese actor to win the Emmy for best lead actor in a dramatic series. Co-star Anna Sawai won best Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Ten years after ” Whiplash ” took the film world by storm, Damien Chazelle’s breakthrough feature is returning to theaters nationwide Friday. In 2014, “Whiplash” was the ultimate indie movie Cinderella story — a Sundance discovery made by a 20-something that that would go on to become both a box office hit and an awards Read More 

NEW YORK The Piano Lesson, directed by Malcolm Washington and co-written by Washington and Virgil Williams, will receive the 2024 Gotham Awards Ensemble Tribute at the 34th Annual Gotham Awards ceremony on Monday, December 2, 2024 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. The Gotham Awards Ensemble Tribute was created in 2005 to recognize the talented Read More 

LOS ANGELES The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced that Heretic, the psychological thriller starring Hugh Grant, and Maria, based on the life of opera singer Maria Callas starring Angelina Jolie, will round out the Red Carpet Premieres section at this year’s AFI Fest. The Heretic Gala Screening will take place on Thursday, October 24, and the Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Tarana Burke says people are always asking “what’s next?” for the #MeToo movement, the broad reckoning against sexual misconduct and abuse that she helped launch seven years ago. This week, Burke, who coined the phrase “me too” decades ago in work with survivors of sexual violence and saw it go viral in 2017 with the Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Sean “Diddy” Combs was headed to jail Tuesday to await trial in his federal sex trafficking case, after a magistrate ordered him to be held without bail in a case that accuses him of presiding over a sordid empire of sexual crimes. The music mogul pleaded not guilty Tuesday to racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking. Read More 

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed off Tuesday on legislation aiming at protecting Hollywood actors and performers against unauthorized artificial intelligence that could be used to create digital clones of themselves without their consent. The new laws come as California legislators ramped up efforts this year to regulate the marquee industry that is increasingly affecting the Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) As she reprises her role as the witch everyone loves to hate, Kathryn Hahn says it “makes total sense” she’s continuing the story. The “Agatha All Along” star, who first introduced Agatha Harkness to the world in the hit 2021 Marvel series “WandaVision,” said the rich complexity of her character excites her. “It’s so juicy. Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) There’s a great moment in the first episode of the new NBC medical drama “Brilliant Minds” when it becomes very clear that we’re not dealing with a typical TV doctor. Zachary Quinto is behind the wheel of a car barreling down a New York City parkway, packed with hospital interns, abruptly weaving in and out Read More 

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) It happens in milliseconds, ideally, as you browse the web. Networks of computers and software analyze who you are, what you are looking at and buy and sell the advertisements you see on web pages. The company that most likely determines which ads you get, and how much an advertiser paid to get on your Read More 

NEW YORK An updated template for the AICP’s Demographic Reporting Initiative is now available. Originally launched in October of 2021, the Demographic Reporting Initiative allows production companies to provide their advertiser and agency clients with insight into the demographic makeup of the people on the crews of their commercials and brand content. As with version 1.0, the Read More 

BROOKLYN, NY SCHROM x Yacht Club, a full-service live-action, tabletop, and postproduction company, has teamed with Be Electric Studios, a soundstage, equipment rental, and virtual production company, to launch Electric XR, a virtual production collective. Industry veteran Thomas Rossano will lead the new venture, which provides advanced virtual production solutions across multiple facilities. He brings over 25 Read More 

LOS ANGELES Production company JOJX has signed director Madeline Clayton for U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content. Clayton’s body of work includes award-winning pieces such as “She’ll Be Right” for the United Nations, which won a Bronze Cannes Lion and a 1.4 Award for Brilliant Filmmaking. The film, which advocates for global gender equality, was also Read More 

LOS ANGELES Strike Anywhere has added filmmaker John Larigakis to its talent roster, marking his first U.S. commercial representation. He continues to be repped in Canada by production house BOLDLY. Larigakis first established himself on the agency side of the business where he spent 15 years, including serving as a sr. art director at DDB Canada and Read More 

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. Bicoastal Sinners and Saints–the multidisciplinary studio overseen by managing director/executive producer Heather Heller, and partners/EPs Yann Henric and Thomas Carroll–has added Apple Pie Tabletop to its roster for branded content. Known for its food and beverage content creation, Apple Pie comprises the husband-and-wife team of director/DP Gene Dubin and director/art director Alisa Volodina. In addition Read More 

WASHINGTON (AP) TikTok faced off with the U.S. government in federal court on Monday, arguing a law that could ban the platform in a few short months was unconstitutional while the Justice Department said the measure is critical to eliminate a national security risk posed by the popular social media company. Attorneys for the two sides – Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own. She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in “The Gilded Age,” for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of “The White Lotus,” which she recently shot in Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Filmmaker Lana Wilson had never thought much about psychics. But the morning after Election Day in 2016, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, she found herself drawn towards a sign that promised “$5 psychic readings” and wandered in. Much to her surprise, she found it to be a rather profound experience. She can barely even remember Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) In its first two hours, “The Substance” is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror. But the film’s deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) The overriding tension in “Wolfs,” starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt as rival fixers brought in to clean up the same crime, isn’t so much the threat of police arrest or Albanian mob assassination — both of which are concerns. It’s that Clooney and Pitt aren’t pals. The two start out as strangers to one Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Death isn’t like it is in the movies, a character explains in “His Three Daughters.” Elizabeth Olsen’s Christina is telling her sisters, Katie (Carrie Coon) and Rachel (Natasha Lyonne), a story about their father, who became particularly agitated one evening while watching a movie on television in the aftermath of his wife’s passing. It’s not Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Imagine you could wake up one morning, stand at the mirror, and literally peel off any part of your looks you don’t like — with only movie-star beauty remaining. How would it change your life? How SHOULD it change your life? That’s a question – well, a launching point, really — for Edward, protagonist of Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Not long after Edwin Moses figured out how to attack the solution to track’s ultimate math problem, he transformed himself into the best hurdler in history. That, in turn, gave the engineer-turned-Olympic champion the platform to go after more difficult issues that, even today, more than 40 years later, nobody has totally untangled. The title Read More 

CAPE TOWN, South Africa Creative + technology studio Preymaker, founded in New York in 2020 by industry veterans Angus Kneale, Melanie Wickham and Verity Grantham, has opened a studio in Cape Town. Leading the day-to-day business at the new South Africa outpost are industry veterans Julie Brown, serving as head of operations, and Byron Tofas, creative lead. Brown has Read More 

NEW YORK The One Club for Creativity has announced 78 talented young creative individuals and teams based in 18 countries selected as finalists for the Young Guns 22 competition, celebrating global creative professionals age 30 or younger. Young Guns is the industry’s only global, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies and celebrates today’s vanguard of young creatives. Read More 

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