Category Archives: News

FilmLA Reports Weakest Quarter of 2024 as Greater L.A. Filming Drops by 5%
FilmLA, the quasi-public agency that handles film permits in Los Angeles, has reported a weak third quarter for 2024. Production in the Greater Los Angeles area dropped 5 percent to 5,048 shoot days. ...
Jazztangcay Oct 16, 2024

Live-Action ‘View-Master’ Movie, Based on 3D Image Toy From Mattel, in the Works
Mattel, the toy company behind Barbie and Hot Wheels, is developing a feature film about the stereoscopic image device View-Master. The live-action movie will be developed with Sony Pictures and Escap...
Rebecca Rubin Oct 16, 2024

How Meaghan Oppenheimer Made ‘Tell Me Lies’ the Most Dangerous, Sexy Primetime Soap in Ages
Meaghan Oppenheimer is a Hollywood showrunner with a husband, an infant, three stepkids and a dynastic family polo ranch on the outskirts of Tulsa, Okla. Despite these dignified badges of adulthood, s...
Varietymattdonnelly Oct 16, 2024

Charli XCX and Troye Sivan Meet the Moment at Action-Packed Sweat Tour in Los Angeles: Concert Review
Nothing major has truly changed about the nature of Charli XCX’s live show over the past decade-plus years, only the context. At the heart her performances are raw, unencumbered manifestations o...
Steven J. Horowitz Oct 16, 2024

New figures suggest much of the UK is becoming a ‘touring desert’
New figures from the Music Venue Trust have revealed that the touring circuit has been shrinking due to bands increasingly skipping towns and cities. READ MORE: Music Venue Trust: “All hail Cold...
Anagricel Duran Oct 16, 2024

‘There Should Be No Prisons,’ Filmmakers Tell Incarcerated Men at San Quentin Film Festival
Samuel L. Jackson is sitting at the edge of a fountain in the center of a beautiful courtyard. A few feet away from us, there’s an ensemble of violinists and guitarists and drummers playing musi...
Selome Hailu Oct 16, 2024

DP Greig Fraser on the Biggest Challenge Shooting ‘Dune 2’, How He Manages New Tech and Why Denis Villeneuve Thinks ‘He’s a Pioneer’
"One doesn't come out of the womb wanting to be a cinematographer," says Greig Fraser, the go-to director of photography for such helmers as Garth Davis, Matt Reeves, Denis Villeneuve and more. Fraser...
Jazztangcay Oct 16, 2024

Sony Pictures TV President Katherine Pope Still Bullish on Biz Amid Disruptions, Says ‘Creative Production, Budgetary Friction,’ a ‘Good Thing’
Sony Pictures Television president Katherine Pope is still bullish on the future of TV, saying that some of the recent disruptions rattling the global business will be good for the industry in the lon...
Postcardjunky Oct 16, 2024

Watch Drake and his dad crash a jazz performance in Toronto to sing a duet
Drake and his dad crashed a jazz show in Toronto last weekend to perform a duet with the backing band. Check out the footage below. READ MORE: Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s feud: the full time...
Laura Molloy Oct 16, 2024

‘Thesis on a Domestication’ Trailer: Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna Produced Movie Pushes the Boundaries of Trans Representation (EXCLUSIVE)
Domestic bliss and a fruitful career collide with latent trauma and erotic expression in the teaser trailer for Argentine helmer Javier Van de Couter's latest project, "Thesis on a Domestication" ("Te...
John Hopewell Oct 16, 2024