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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
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
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
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
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded a regional Emmy Award in the societal concerns category to the Sonoma County-produced documentary “3 Seconds in October: The Shooting of Andy Lopez” Saturday night in San Francisco.
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Kaepernick & America takes us back to 2016 when Colin Kaepernick's decision grew into culture war chaos.
It’s almost a certainty that the definitive retelling on Colin Kaepernick and his decision to not stand for the national anthem will not come fro
SAN FRANCISCO -- On Friday night, a locally produced film called "I'm Charlie Walker" premieres in San Francisco, telling the story of what seems like a lost chapter of Bay Area history.
The movie is based on a true story from January of 1971, when tw
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Recently, CFF sponsored the US Theatrical Premiere of INFRARED, a new Horror film.
Sestero Pictures & Woof Cat Films presents the US theatrical premiere of INFRARED, a new fea
"Let me tell you a story, about a movement that almost was ..."
It only takes a few seconds. The first throb of bass, the palpitations of the 808s, the bars spoken through gold teeth. From the ears, it unfurls through the body: Your shoulders twitch,
UC Berkeley was buzzing on Friday afternoon as a wedding, department graduations and a massive Hollywood production happened simultaneously on campus.
Filming for Christopher Nolan's star-studded "Oppenheimer" took over the heart of campus. The biopic
It's been more than 35 years since Top Gun hit theaters. It romanticized military aviation, pushed Tom Cruise to a whole new level of superstardom, and showed off the beauty of San Diego.
The long-awaited sequel once again features San Diego and
When the bubonic plague reached San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900, it prompted a racial panic — and helped push science forward.
“American Experience: Plague at the Golden Gate,” premiering Tuesday on PBS, tells the seemingly contradictory, and all to
Disney+ has set Thursday, September 8 for the premiere of Pinocchio, Robert Zemeckis’ live-action adaptation starring Tom Hanks as Gepetto. The release is timed for Disney+ Day, a lead-in to the D23 Expo in Anaheim CA. The streamer also released the
