Monday, Feb. 26, 2024

Creative collective Wild Gift, founded by production veterans David Mitchell and Tomer DeVito, has signed director Julian Acosta for commercial representation in the U.S. and global markets. A storyteller and musician who side-hobbies as a drummer in a punk rock band, Acosta has a prolific body...

Monday, Feb. 26, 2024

Creative production studio London Alley has added international director Sidney Van Wichelen to its roster for U.S. representation spanning commercials, branded content and music videos. This marks the first representation in the American market for the Brussels-based director.

Van...

Monday, Feb. 26, 2024

StrawberryFrog, an independent strategy, marketing, advertising, and design firm, has hired Nick Sonderup as executive creative director. Sonderup is an award-winning, Emmy-nominated creative leader, ECD and writer with more than 22 years of experience. 

Sonderup was previously at Pereira...

Monday, Feb. 26, 2024

The road to an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature had its share of detours for writer-director Nisha Pahuja as she grappled with what eventually became To Kill a Tiger. For one, the film wound up with a decidedly different focus than what she initially envisioned. Also there...

Monday, Feb. 26, 2024

With two weeks to go before the Oscars, “Oppenheimer” looks unstoppable.

Director and producer Christopher Nolan’s tale of the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the birth of the atomic age won the top prize Sunday at the 35th Producers Guild of America Awards — a frequent predictor of...

Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024

Celine Song’s quiet romance “Past Lives” won two of the biggest awards at the Film Independent Spirit Awards Sunday afternoon, honored for best feature and best director. Other big winners were Cord Jefferson’s comedic satire “ American Fiction,” with Jeffrey Wright winning for lead performer,...

Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024

“Oppenheimer” continued to steamroll through Hollywood’s awards season on Saturday, winning the top prize, for outstanding cast, along with awards for Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr., at the 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards.

As the Academy Awards draw closer, Christopher Nolan’s...

Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024

A new entry in the "Avatar" franchise is about to soar and James Cameron has no part in it.

"Avatar: The Last Airbender" is a completely different fictional world from Cameron's Pandora but the two similarly named dueling sci-fi fantasy properties have kept throwing out new entries over...

Friday, Feb. 23, 2024

Blinkink, the London-based production studio, has added Ng’endo Mukii to its directorial roster for global representation spanning short-form fare across commercials, branded content, short films and music videos. The Boston-based filmmaker is also going to continue working with Blinkink’s long-...

Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024

Prosecutors sought to pin blame on a movie weapons supervisor for bringing live ammunition on set and "unprofessional and sloppy" work that contributed to the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin during production of the film "Rust," as the first trial in the death began Thursday...

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