There are Bay Area movies and then there are Bay Area movies.
Plenty of iconic movies have been shot here, from “Vertigo” to “Bullitt” to, in part, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” But then there are the movies that only could have been
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A contractor prominently featured in the HGTV show "Windy City Rehab" is suing the network and Sacramento-based television production company Big Table Media for allegedly mischaracterizing him as the villain in the show's most recent season, causing
Chadwick Boseman’s legacy will continue to loom large: Howard University and Netflix have established a $5.4 million scholarship in the name of the late actor and awarded it to four students at his alma mater.
The university and the streaming giant s
Ten years ago, Philip Wang and Cathy Nguyen shot a breakup scene on a park bench in South Pasadena for “Strangers, Again,” a short film by Wang’s production company and YouTube channel, Wong Fu Productions.
The 16-minute story about how a relationshi
The members of the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees have voted to approve a strike authorization, giving the union president the power to shut down film and TV production across the country.
The vote passed with 98.7 percent sup
"We are always inclined to support our brothers and sisters," said a Latino labor organizer who acknowledged the exclusion.
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A museum in Amsterdam is contemptuously known as the Ba
Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller has won the rights to the original film in a massive lawsuit. Miller wrote the original Friday the 13th back in 1980 and the film became a massive hit and spawned a multimedia franchise. The 12 Friday the 1
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Film festivals in the North Bay are few and far between, exempt from the multiple film festivals held year-round with the California Film Foundation and the Sacramento Film Festival. However, Vallejo has stepped up its arts and entertainment events i
An earthquake hit Hollywood at 8:17 a.m. PT on Sept. 27, but it didn’t register on the Richter scale.
Leaders of CAA and ICM partners spent the weekend in marathon negotiating sessions leading up to that precise moment early Monday when the agreemen
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Horror fanatics know it well: The infamous house in 1996’s film “Scream,” where teenagers, including one or two killers sporting ghostface masks, go to party after a string of murders occur in their tight-knit commu
The California Capital Film Office is opening a new theater for live performances, and planning an international film festival for Rancho Cordova this fall.
During the pandemic, the Cal Cap Film Office worked on building out its services and finishing
The Matrix: Ressurection is set to hold the film's U.S. premiere in San Francisco, according to Variety, it makes sense when you take into consideration the fact that Keanu Reeves' Neo lives in a near-future San Francisco. While the report wasn't abl
Jennifer West, a former television production manager for New Line Cinema, is the first manager of the new Sacramento Film Office.
The city has launched the office after studying the idea for nearly a year with an eye toward expanding, Sacramento’s ro
Jean Hale, who tussled with James Coburn’s character in the spy spoof In Like Flint and portrayed the hatcheck-girl accomplice of David Wayne’s Mad Hatter on TV’s Batman, has died. She was 82.
Hale died Aug. 3 of natural causes in Santa Monica, her fa
Saying that “a strike would effectively shut down California state film and television production,” IATSE has told California lawmakers that “it is both outrageous and immoral that the studios oppose basic worker rights, an opposition that may lead
Sacramento has a new lead for its public arts and film efforts, with the recent hiring of Megan Van Voorhis as the city's first culture and creative economy manager.
The city announced that it hired Van Voorhis on Tuesday afternoon. Her employment wit
Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” capped off Labor Day weekend at the box office with a bang. The superhero action-adventure, starring Canadian actor Simu Liu, had an even bigger debut than expected, collecting $94.4 million in it
If you don’t know what “Tudum” is, allow Regina King, Álvaro Morte, Idris Elba, Chris Hemsworth, Millie Bobby Brown and dozens more of Netflix’s biggest stars to tell you.
“Tudum… or not Tudum?” that is the question “Sex Education” star Ncuti Gatwa as
