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 Issue Date: 12/11/2025 | Click headlines for full story, pics, video or to comment
SHOOT News of the Day
Oscars Recognize Casting For The First Time, Spotlighting A Pivotal Role In The Movie Industry
Behind the Wizard of Oz in the two-part “Wicked” movies were people actually pulling the strings. They set the table for the hit double-punch movies long before the cameras ever rolled out: The casting directors, helped pick who made it to Oz. “Our job is to know the actors that are out there or know
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Director Carl Erik Rinsch Convicted Of Scamming $11 Million From Netflix
A Hollywood director was convicted Thursday on charges that he scammed Netflix out of $11 million for a show that never materialized, while he instead used the cash for lavish purchases that included several Rolls-Royces, a Ferrari and about $1 million in mattresses and luxury bedding. Carl Erik Rinsch, best known for directing the film
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Disney Invests $1B In OpenAI; Deal Will Bring Characters Like Mickey Mouse To Sora AI Video Tool
Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and will bring characters such as Mickey Mouse, Cinderella and Luke Skywalker to the AI company’s Sora video generation tool, in a licensing deal that the two companies announced on Thursday. At the same time, Disney went after Google, demanding the tech company stop exploiting its copyrighted characters
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Filmmaker Anthony Leonardi III Joins RSA Films For Commercial Representation
RSA Films has added director and artist Anthony Leonardi III to its roster for commercial representation in the U.S. Leonardi’s extensive credits include brand partnerships with the Marvel universe on campaigns for Lexus, Tide, Audi and the Super Bowl spots “Mini Marvel” for Coca-Cola and “No Shrinking and Drinking” for Heineken. He was a second
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Tool Expands AI Content Group With Hiring Of Roberts, Spencer and Klevecz
Content production partner and creative technology company Tool has expanded its AI Content Group with three new hires. Oden Roberts joins as director of AI, VFX & pipelines, Kelly Spencer arrives as director of partnerships & creative automation, and Ariel Klevecz joins as AI pipeline developer. This brings Tool’s total team of dedicated AI experts
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Paramount says China’s Tencent withdrew from its Warner Bros bid to avert national security issues
Paramount Skydance says the Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent Holdings withdrew from its bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery to avert a possible national security review. Paramount’s revised filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of its takeover bid said the Chinese company had dropped its $1 billion financing commitment out of
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ICG sets first round of nominees for the 63rd Annual Publicists Awards
The Publicists of the International Cinematographers Guild (ICG), IATSE Local 600, revealed the first round of nominees for the 63rd Annual ICG Publicists Awards, including those up for the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Television Publicity Campaign. The ICG’s annual awards event recognizes the achievements of its publicist members, including unit publicists, individual publicists, studio publicists,
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Review: Writer-Director Mamoru Hosoda’s “Scarlet”
The Japanese writer-director Mamoru Hosoda has made some amazing films that take profound leaps into dreamlike worlds. Hosoda’s “Mirai” (2018) is about a 4-year-old boy who’s resentful of his newborn sister. But in his backyard garden, he meets his sister as a teenager. This is just the first of many domestic time travels, as the
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Issue Date: 12/11/2025 | Click headlines for full story, pics, video or to comment
SPW News of the Day
Boris FX Mocha Pro Adds Powerful New AI Roto, Matte, and 3D Solve Refinement Tools
Mocha Pro, the Emmy® and Academy Award®-winning planar tracking and masking plugin from Boris FX, announces its 2026 release. The latest update helps VFX artists quickly refine tracking and rotoscoping results with a new AI-assisted matte refine tool for 2D tracking, a 3D tracking refine solve tool, and a rebuilt Curve Editor to easily visualize
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DWA Presents Ultimate Events, December 2025 Edition (Hybrid Special)
This year is almost history, but great things are still to come, as you’ll see in 2025’s final Ultimate Events edition. I hope you’re ready, willing, and able to celebrate what’s shaping up. Focused on sharpening skills for the new year ahead? Astute organizers are preparing to stage spectacular events guaranteed to blow minds and
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