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A new movie theater has opened in an anchor location that has been vacant at the Westfield Galleria at Roseville for several years.
Cinemark Roseville Galleria Mall and XD opened to the public last week. Caitlin Piper, senior manager of public relatio
Seven TV series — five new and two relocating — have been selected to receive $90.8 million in tax incentives for shooting in California, the state’s film office said Monday.
HBO, granted $30 million in credits, came out on top in this round of tax br
John Fithian, the top lobbyist for the exhibition industry, will retire as the CEO of the National Association of Theatre Owners on May 1, 2023. The group said it has already begun a search for Fithian’s successor, but he leaves big shoes to fill, ha
The late, great Jean-Luc Godard wrote in his 1960 film "Le Petit Soldat" that photography was truth, and that cinema is truth at 24 frames per second. Every edit is a lie.
Editing is one of those alterations from truth that modern cinema audiences h
The “Midnight Mass” and “Haunting of Hill House” mastermind packed 21 separate instances of the classic horror trope into the premiere of his latest Netflix series, “The Midnight Club,” a tally so high it actually breaks the Guinness World Record for
Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, an original Netflix animated feature released earlier this year, was rejected by the Academy for consideration in the upcoming best animated feature race, and its filmmakers are speaking aboutOscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer is set to release a new double album, “Hans Zimmer Live,” in 2023.
Sony Classical announced the news today as it previewed the first single(s), the three-part “Last Samurai Suite.”
Zimmer’s new album features reimagin
Hollywood Records is launching a new podcast series titled “The Big Score.”
Each episode of the original series will offer first-person audio and video vignettes that delve deep into the creation of film and television music for influential and award
With all of the horrors Americans are facing daily — a gun crisis, attacks on women’s rights, a Supreme Court hell-bent on legislating back to the olden days — it can be a difficult to engage with the artificial terror of scary movies.
Fittingly, many
The trailer for Universal Pictures and Nintendo’s "The Super Mario Bros Movie" has debuted, bringing with it a first listen of Chris Pratt's Mario voice. The actor told Variety earlier this year that he “worked really closely with the directors” to c
Viggo Mortensen is set to write, direct and act in the period western “The Dead Don’t Hurt,” which will also star Vicky Krieps (“Corsage,” “Phantom Thread”).
The movie will begin shooting on Oct. 12 in Canada. Billed as a “western love story” set in t
Legendary filmmaker John Waters is stepping back to the director’s chair for the first time in 18 years, for an adaptation of his 2022 novel “Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance.” Waters — a pioneering independent filmmaker who catapulted to cinema infa
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans were forced to give up some of their favorite creature comforts as mandatory stay-at-home orders went into effect across the country. The movie industry was hit especially hard, as both major chains
For much of Jordan Peele’s new thriller Nope, one thing is clear: There’s something wrong in Agua Dulce. In this ranch-speckled stretch of desert, OJ and Emerald Haywood (Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer, respectively) are the proprietors of a Hollywo
There’s going to be some serious California financial meat on the bones of Star War series Skeleton Crew.
Hauling in a near-record $20.9 million in Golden State tax incentives, the Disney+ series starring Jude Law was among seven shows awarded lucra
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The most consistently Oscar-winning studio celebrates the return to business as usual and its remotely created movie Less than an hour east of Sacramento in Emeryville is the most consistently Oscar-winning studio in America: P
The California Film Commission has selected 30 feature films to receive the next round of California tax credits – movies that the commission estimates will generate $1.17 billion in overall production spending in the state and create 4,564 jobs for
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