The idea for the program is to help filmmakers shoot movies in Sacramento
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
The city of Sacramento is investing in the movie industry. It’s awarded nine grants to filmmakers through its film incentive program and is taking applicatio
On March 27, the Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson-directed Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) won the Oscar for Best Documentary. A week later, the film won the Grammy for Best Music Film, becoming only the third documentary t
Loki is heading into The White Darkness for Apple.
Tom Hiddleston is to star in a limited series of David Grann’s non-fiction book for Apple.
The series is developed by Pachinko creator Soo Hugh and will be co-showrun by Hugh and Strange Angel creator
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has landed Ending Things, an action-adventure vehicle for Anthony Mackie and Priyanka Chopra. In competition, Amazon bought a Kevin Sullivan spec script with a True Lies-sque premise. A hit-woman who wants out of the assassi
Household name recognition could be coming soon for San Francisco-born actor Colin Woodell, who landed a sizable role in the new Michael Bay mega-production “Ambulance.”
In the movie, which opens Friday, Woodell plays a rookie EMT named Scott, sharing
Pixar Animation Studios is promoting “Turning Red” producer Lindsey Collins and director Domee Shi into leadership roles at the company.
Collins has been named into a new position, as senior vice president of development. She will lead the developm
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one. Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow) and Chris Evans (Captain America) are set to star in buzzy new movie package Project Artemis, we can reveal, with Ozark star, director, and exec-producer Jason Bateman aboard to direct
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The first of three rounds is now open for those interested in receiving a grant for a film or television production project in the city of Sacramento.
Sacramento Film + Media will award four $5,000 grants during each of three gran
Hundreds of Bay Area residents, many of them kids and their families, were expected to watch free screenings of “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” this weekend as part of a community-led effort to promote visibility and representation of As
The family of Brandon Lee has been overcome with sadness and frustration in learning that another accidental fatal shooting occurred on a film set.
On Thursday, Halyna Hutchins, 42, was killed when a gun handled by Alec Baldwin misfired on the set
Lissette Feliciano felt like a failure.
The San Francisco-born actress, writer and director had been trying to make it in the industry for years, but it didn’t seem like her career was going anywhere. She worried, too, that she’d failed one of her bi
Fremont native Kate Tsang creates some special feel-good magic in her debut feature “Marvelous and the Black Hole,” available through Sunday for online viewing as part of the Mill Valley Film Festival and also as an in-person screening experience t
BAY AREA, CA — An East Bay high school student who recently began accepting submissions for a new youth environmental film festival was tapped to give a TEDx Talk about the power of film to fight climate change.
Quarry Lane School junior and filmmake
Cary Joji Fukunaga admits he’s a little exhausted as he appears on a video chat during the U.S. press day for the latest James Bond film, “No Time to Die.”
The Bond circus can do that to people. He talked from New York, where he purchased his first p
A new report of actors expressing anti-vaccination views on sets states that Letitia Wright is supporting said beliefs on the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever set. Plot details regarding the second installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchis
Ben Fong-Torres’ office bears all the markings of his life as a walking, talking rock ‘n’ roll encyclopedia. A wall of CDs stacked top to bottom, arranged alphabetically, stands adjacent to a wall of books. Scattered around are rock ephemera: vintag
In 1977, when Anne Huang was 12 years old, her family fled the threat of martial law in Taiwan and moved to San Francisco. Here she became a star student, double-majoring in chemistry and biology at UCSF, where she graduated in the class of 1990 and
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
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
