LOS ANGELES With Emmy nominations set to be unveiled next week (7/15), SHOOT looks back on its current “The Road To Emmy” Series of feature stories thus far, touching upon directorial debuts that could figure in the mix for recognition from the Television Academy. Last month in two separate installments of our coverage, we delved into four Read More 

NEW YORK As SHOOT celebrates a milestone, its 65th year of publication, we begin a series of interviews and features that will run throughout the summer on SHOOTonline and in SHOOT‘s newsletters and special PDF Issue with digital distribution in which industry executives, creatives and artists reflect on the changes they’ve seen over the decades, as well Read More 

LOS ANGELES “Severance” (Apple TV+) topped the nominations tally for the 41st annual Television Critics Association (TCA) Awards, garnering 5 nods including for Program of the Year. Also nominated in the marquee Program of the Year category were “Adolescence” (Netflix), “Andor” (Disney+), “Hacks” (HBO Max), “The Pitt” (HBO Max), “The Rehearsal” (HBO), “The Studio” (Apple TV+) and Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Unionized video game performers have overwhelmingly voted to approve a new contract with their employers. The vote, whose results were announced Wednesday night by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, ends a nearly three-year-long effort from union negotiators to obtain a new contract for the performers. The process, which included an Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Superman might do more than just save Metropolis — filmmaker James Gunn hopes the beloved superhero will bring hope to a cynical world. “Everybody’s gotten so cynical and ironic,” said Gunn. “Everybody’s ironic about everything all the time. And he (Superman) is a good-natured guy who wants to be kind. And when you see the Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Larry David will bring his grumbly sensibility to U.S. history in a team-up with Barack and Michelle Obama for an HBO sketch show, the network announced Thursday. The “Curb Your Enthusiasm” creator and “Seinfeld” co-creator will act as executive producer, writer and star of the limited series consisting of six half-hour episodes, produced by the Read More 

LONDON Cannes Lions has announced new integrity standards and measures for its awards. Following a thorough review, an evolved framework will be introduced to provide a renewed model of accountability, rigor, and trust for creative excellence. “The industry landscape is changing at lightning speed,” said Simon Cook, CEO, Lions. “And, in common with the rest of Read More 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) X CEO Linda Yaccarino said she’s stepping down after two bumpy years running Elon Musk’s social media platform. Yaccarino posted a positive message Wednesday about her tenure at the company formerly known as Twitter and said “the best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter with” Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, maker Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Less than a month after extending a deadline to ban TikTok for the third time, President Donald Trump told reporters late Friday night that, “We pretty much have a deal,” on TikTok — but he did not offer details. The details and timing of a potential deal are not clear. TikTok did not immediately respond Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Jack Nicholson did not want to go to the Oscars. It was 1976 and he was nominated for best actor in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” The Miloš Forman film, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a nationwide theatrical re-release on July 13 and July 16, had become a bit of a sensation Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Raphael Saadiq has always admired the boldness of stand-up icons like Dave Chappelle and Eddie Murphy who commanded the stage alone with only their stories. Now, the three-time Grammy winner is taking a similar leap, stepping into the spotlight solo for his own one-man show tour, announced Tuesday. The intimate No Bandwidth tour will pull Read More 

LOS ANGELES Multidisciplinary production company UNIT9 has signed Swiss director Samuel Morris for his first U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content. Morris’ ability to organically weave brands into cinematic stories has made him a sought-after commercial director, helming campaigns for The North Face, Under Armour, Adidas, Swisscom, and Greenpeace, among many others. He has also directed Read More 

LOS ANGELES Production company JOJX has signed award-winning director and multidisciplinary artist Jabu Nadia Newman for U.S. representation. Newman’s storytelling sits at the intersection of pop culture, activism and visual poetry. She brings a globally informed perspective, moving fluidly through narrative, fashion, branded content and contemporary art. “I’ve been drawn to JOJX’s vision for some time,” said Read More 

NEW YORK Production company Imagine This has added three directors to its live-action roster; Kelly McKay, Will Innes Smith, and Rodrigo Siqueira. Imagine This becomes the first company to represent McKay and Siqueira. Smith too had most recently been directing independently but earlier in his career was repped via production house Familia. Detroit-born and Berlin-based, McKay is Read More 

LOS ANGELES Creative production studio Whiskey Bear has added Keegan & Nicole to its directorial roster. The creative duo and married couple are multi-talented creators who are known for film genre & brand mash-ups on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube–all with comedic effect. Among them, Coca-Cola and Horror (29M views) or Gillette x Fantasy (5.3 M views) which Read More 

NEW YORK Multi-platform production studio BURN has added Coming of Age, the directing duo of Lewis Atallah and Mattias Russo-Larsson, to its roster for U.S. representation. This marks the duo’s first signing with a production company. “We love these guys–they embody the mindset and attitude of the exact talent we seek. Creatively ambitious and culturally aware, they’re Read More 

LONDON DAVID is expanding its presence in Europe. DAVID London, the newest office in the network, will lead creative work for part of WPP’s The Beauty Collective, a cross-agency team dedicated to servicing Unilever’s leading Beauty & Wellbeing brands, at launch. The opening of DAVID London marks the network’s seventh global office. Genevieve Gransden and Selma Read More 

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. The International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) has chosen eight honorees to receive the 2025 Emerging Cinematographer Awards (ECAs). The 27th annual awards gala and reception will be held at the Television Academy Saban Media Center Wolf Theatre, on Sunday, September 28, 2025. The eight filmmakers, selected from 100 submissions, are: –Isaac Banks for Read More 

SILVERSTONE, England (AP) Lewis Hamilton says he just wants to enjoy the “F1” movie’s success as he warned Thursday that rushing a sequel would be “the worst thing we probably could do.” The seven-time Formula 1 champion was an executive producer on the film, which stars Brad Pitt as a hard-bitten racer making a late-career comeback. It became Read More 

PRAGUE (AP) The Czech Karlovy Vary International Film Festival was kicking off its 59th edition on Friday with honors for American actor Peter Sarsgaard and actress Vicky Krieps from Luxembourg. Sarsgaard and Krieps are both slated to receive the Festival President’s Award at the opening ceremony. The festival will screen “Shattered Glass,” a 2003 movie directed by Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) “Are we racists?” That’s the blunt question posed by Bobo, a white girl living on a farm in Africa, to her horrified (and defensive) mother. There are so many ways this three-word line reading could land wrongly — or just seem forced or mannered. But it feels thoroughly organic when voiced by Lexi Venter, an Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … a purple and orange shape-shifting chemical compound? Writer-director James Gunn’s “Superman” was always going to be a strange chemistry of filmmaker and material. Gunn, the mind behind “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “The Suicide Squad,” has reliably drifted toward a B-movie superhero realm populated (usually over-populated) Read More 

NEW YORK & LOS ANGELES The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has unveiled the nominees for the 52nd Annual Daytime Emmy® Awards. The ceremony is set to take place on Friday, October 17 in Pasadena, Calif. “We’re excited to recognize the exceptional individuals and teams who make daytime television great every year and in some cases, every Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Sean “Diddy” Combs will be sentenced in his federal criminal case on Oct. 3, a judge said Tuesday after probation officials rejected the defense and prosecution’s plan to move the date up by about two weeks. Combs, who remains jailed after a split verdict last week, spoke briefly to his lawyer Marc Agnifilo during a Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Dinosaur fatigue may be a theme in “Jurassic World Rebirth,” but moviegoing audiences don’t seem to have that reservation. The newest installment in the “Jurassic World” franchise ruled the Fourth of July holiday box office with a global, five-day launch of $318.3 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Universal Pictures release, directed by Gareth Read More 

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