In 1939, Herman J. Mankiewicz was a forty-two-year-old screenwriter, acclaimed in Hollywood not only for the lines of dialogue he wrote for movies but for the ones he delivered in life. In nearly a decade and a half in the business, he’d found succes
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For much of the past year, movie theatres were closed nationwide; now they’re open again in most states, and films are being shown in them, but studios are keeping their biggest releases on hold for now, and audiences are staying away. The Regal Cine
The amateur paleontologist Mary Anning, barred from the academy because of her class and gender, is reimagined as a sexual rebel rebuking the code of her time.
There are certain fields of human activity to which the keen amateur can make a notable con
Netflix’s arsenal of content this year could give the streamer the most best picture nominations from any studio in history, a record held by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which scored five nods at the ninth Academy Awards in 1937. It may even net the streami
France, which has been on lockdown since Oct. 30 to curb the second wave of the pandemic, will see its cinemas, theaters and museum reopen on Dec. 15. French president Emmanuel Macron unveiled some gradual measures to ease the lockdown on Tuesday dur
Another media outlet is getting ready to vie for fans of sentimental stories in the industry’s massive holiday-programming wars.
Fox Nation, the streaming-video hub that is part of Fox News Media, will launch its first holiday movie, “Christmas in the
Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino’s intimate TV debut follows the messy lives of a group of teenagers, as they navigate adolescence at a US army base in northern Italy
“Harper? Isn’t that a name for a boy?” An Italian man has sidled up to
Taylor-Joy also revealed what drew her to the role of chess prodigy Beth Harmon.
Netflix's new limited series The Queen's Gambit sees Anya Taylor-Joy (The New Mutants, Emma) star as Beth Harmon, a chess prodigy with a traumatic past, coming of age in
Idris Elba’s urban western “Concrete Cowboy” will be riding its way onto Netflix.
The streamer has picked up the cowboy tale after it debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Netflix will release the film in 2021.
“Concrete Cowb
James' SpringHill has started production on 'Dreamland: The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street,' with Bad Rap's Salima Koroma directing.
The SpringHill Company and CNN Films have partnered to produce Dreamland: The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street,
It wants key members of the sound department to have the same representation as department heads such as DPs.
The Cinema Audio Society, Motion Picture Sound Editors and Association of Motion Picture Sound have stepped up their combined Sound Credit In
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France’s National Film Board (CNC) has launched a workshop for producers who work in the film, TV and video games industry, along with other measures aimed at uncovering and preventing sexual mis
UCLA's latest diversity report predicts a $159 million movie lacking authenticity from diverse voices will lose $32.2 million in its first weekend, and potentially $130 million in overall box office.
Big and medium-sized Hollywood movies lacking a div
"We see an elongated, challenging recovery for both film studios and movie theaters," Credit Suisse's Meghan Durkin wrote in an investors note.
With film production slowly restarting and cinemas reopening amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Credit Suisse anal
In Hollywood, Hispanic stories usually mean ones from other countries. The features and documentaries on this list explore U.S. lives that deserve the spotlight, too.
Hollywood still doesn’t get it.
Latinos are not a monolith. The context, details and
"Cinemas are an essential industry that represent the best that American talent and creativity have to offer. But now we fear for their future," reads a letter sent to Capitol Hill lawmakers asking for additional pandemic relief.
Dozens of influential
The British Academy published an extensive new rules governing eligibility for the 2021 BAFTA awards
The British Academy on Thursday published its extensive new rules governing eligibility for the 2021 BAFTA awards.
Most of the 120 wide-ranging changes
For the portion of Western audiences previously stuck behind the one-inch barrier of subtitles, the multi-Oscar haul by Bong Joon Ho’s dark and provocative “Parasite” was a revelation. But for savvy viewers who had long ago moved past a perceived lan
Movie theaters have been devastated by coronavirus since the pandemic has forced cinemas to close across the country and essentially wiped out summer blockbuster season.
Quentin Tarantino’s Beverly Cinema closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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There are conflicting opinions regarding the budget cutoff for the category commonly referred to as “microbudget filmmaking.” Sometimes referred to as “no-budget,” “ultra-low-budget” or “nano-budget,” the term refers to an increasingly popular level
