Northern California filmmakers have been at the forefront of the #BlackLivesMatter era, delivering works that address racism and exploring the complexities of what it means to be Black in America.
Here are but six such features that have regional ties
The season premiere is already sold out, but a number of tickets set aside for health care workers are still available.
The 46th season of Saturday Night Live premieres this week — and the show will be performed in front of a live audience once again.
As with other creative industries, the film business is reeling under the impact of coronavirus. Crews are struggling to shoot, cinemas are severely restricting audience numbers, studios have been forced to delay releases and film festivals have been
The Cannes Film Festival may have been canceled this year, but organizers still plan to honor the 2020 Official Selection via a three-day event.
The Palais des Festivals will host a ‘Special Cannes’ event, which runs Oct. 27-29 and will feature four f
Last November, a group of suing Disney employees demanded the opportunity to conduct a statistical analysis of pay data to prove gender disparities that they allege occur throughout the studio's workforce. It turns out that Disney had already hired
The eccentric described by Roger Ebert as "the most creative screenwriter of his generation" reflects on abandoning acting for filmmaking, his creative process and why 12 years elapsed between his first and second live-action directing gigs.
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Apple Original Films has decided to pick up Anthony and Joe Russo's latest addiction and crime drama movie Cherry.
Based on Nico Walker's debut novel, Cherry portrays a former Army Medic who returns from Iraq with extreme undiagnosed PTSD, falling in
Disney has announced that they wiil be doing a live-action Peter Pan redo.
As preproduction begins, Yara Shahidi will be set to play as Tinkerbell along with Jude Law who will play as Captain Hook. Joining them, Alexander Molony and Ever Anderson wil
An Announcement for Season 2 of Disney +'s live action television series The Mandalorian has been announced to come out October 30th and Fans are going crazy over the new trailer.
Being that the show came out last year, "there was no doubt that Disney
The director of the Netflix film, which stars Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, Eddie Redmayne and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, reveals why it took nearly 20 years to get the project about the politically motivated prosecution of protestors made and why it
Disney is keeping Pixar's 'Soul' on the 2020 Thanksgiving calendar, while 'Death on the Nile' will also open this year.
In another major reshuffling of its release calendar, Disney is pushing 2020 event pics Black Widow and West Side Story to next yea
Even as U.S. exhibitors are hurting, some directors are saying quietly that they can't encourage audiences to return to cinemas despite safety protocols added during the pandemic.
The pandemic has some Hollywood filmmakers making an unheard-of plea: "
"People have no idea how to operate their fancy new cars," says one film industry veteran who spent the summer promoting his company's new film at outdoor venues.
Forget fancy food menus. The must-have amenity for drive-ins? Jumper cables.
In decades p
"I don't know when you dream of releasing your movie it's at a drive-in. But I never dreamed that my first movie would be an all-black western set in Philly"
Director and Producer Ricky Staub, a 37-year-old white filmmaker comments about the struggle
Screen Engine/ASI conduced a poll of U.S subscribers watching the French coming-of-age film.
A majority of viewers watching Cuties (Mignonnes) over the Sept. 18-20 weekend said they did so because of the controversy surrounding the acclaimed French fi
Hollywood studios need to show more diversity in movie characters if they want to draw audiences to theaters, according to a study released by Movio and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.
The report, titled “I Want to See Me: Why Diverse On
Two days ahead of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its new diversity and inclusion standards for the Oscars that will begin in 2024.
Many top filmmakers, actors and talent weigh
The two-time Oscar nominee also shot such films as 'The Last Detail,' 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' and 'The Fugitive.'
Michael Chapman, the two-time Oscar nominee who shot Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Last Waltz for Martin Scorsese, Invasion o
The producers of this year’s 72nd Emmy Awards promised some unexpected moments, and it didn’t take long for that to come true. That is, if you classify “almost burning down the Staples Center” as unexpected.
While announcing the very first Emmy on Sun
For the second year in a row, the Primetime Emmy Awards have hit an all-time low in TV viewership.
Time zone-adjusted Nielsen numbers for ABC's live broadcast of the 72nd annual awards have the show drawing 6.1 million viewers and a 1.2 rating among a
