Veteran supervising location manager Sue Quinn will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 11th Annual Location Managers Guild International (LMGI) Awards on Saturday, August 24, in Los Angeles. Quinn, best known for her exceptional work on blockbuster films such as “Fantastic Beasts,” and the “Harry Potter” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchises, will be honored for her outstanding contributions to the film and television industry.
Recognized for her seamless integration of real-life locations with the magical world in almost 40 films, Quinn has been a key figure in the world of location management for over three decades, working on some of the biggest and most successful films in Hollywood. Her expertise and attention to detail have helped bring to life iconic locations and settings that have become synonymous with these beloved films.
“Sue Quinn’s boundless passion and dedication have left an indelible mark More
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- Thursday, Jun. 13, 2024
- Thursday, Jun. 13, 2024
After organizers for Nathan's Famous Fourth of July hot dog-eating contest said Joey Chestnut wouldn't compete this year because of a deal with a rival brand, Netflix swiftly announced a new hot dog-eating competition that will feature Chestnut and his "fiercest rival."
Chestnut, a 16-time hot dog-eating champion, will face off with his frequent Nathan's competitor, Takeru Kobayashi, in a live Netflix special on Sept. 2, the streamer announced Wednesday.
The contest, titled "Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef," will feature the two chowing down on all-beef hot dogs, likely in a nod to reports that Chestnut's rival brand deal is with Impossible Foods, which makes plant-based hot dogs.
Major League Eating, the organization that oversees the Nathan's contest, announced Tuesday that Chestnut's deal was an "exclusivity" issue, saying that it was his decision to step back from the competition he has participated in since 2005. "We More
- Wednesday, Jun. 12, 2024
Gov. Ron DeSantis' appointees on Wednesday gave final approval to an agreement that buries the hatchet between Disney and the governing district for Walt Disney World, which the Florida governor took over after the company two years ago publicly opposed a state law critics dubbed "Don't Say Gay."
The five DeSantis-appointed board members to the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District unanimously voted to approve a 15-year development deal in which the district committed to making infrastructure improvements in exchange for Disney investing up to $17 billion into Disney World over the next two decades.
The agreement followed a detente in March in which both sides agreed to stop litigating each other in state court and work towards negotiating a new development agreement and a new comprehensive plan no later than next year. The district provides municipal services such as firefighting, planning and mosquito control, among other things, More
- Wednesday, Jun. 12, 2024
Quincy Jones has been nominated for seven Oscars in the past 55 years, including best original score, best song, and even best picture. Although he's never collected a competitive statuette during the Academy Awards, this November he'll receive an honorary Oscar from the Academy's Board of Governors in recognition of his contributions to the art of film.
Jones, casting director Juliet Taylor, filmmaker Richard Curtis and James Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli will all be honored at this year's Governors Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Wednesday.
Jones, who has contributed to films like "In Cold Blood," "The Wiz" and "The Color Purple," and Taylor, whose casting credits include "Taxi Driver," "Annie Hall," "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Schindler's List," will receive Academy Honorary Awards. Most honorary Oscar recipients have not yet won a competitive Oscar.
Curtis, the "Notting Hill" More
- Wednesday, Jun. 12, 2024
Sony Pictures Entertainment is getting into the exhibition business. The studio behind recent films like "Bad Boys: Ride or Die" and "The Garfield Movie" has acquired the distinctive theater chain Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the companies said Wednesday. Included in the deal is the genre film festival Fantastic Fest.
Sony said it will continue to welcome content from all studios and distributors at the dine-in theaters.
Alamo Drafthouse was founded in 1997 as a single screen, family-owned repertory theater in Austin, Texas, and has grown to 35 locations in North America. It distinguished itself in the exhibition landscape with drinks, dine-in food service and a cool vibe that became a favorite of cinephiles.
"We are beyond thrilled to join forces with Sony Pictures Entertainment to expand our company vision to be the best damn cinema that has ever, or will ever, exist now in ways we could only ever dream of," Alamo Drafthouse founder More
- Wednesday, Jun. 12, 2024
Elon Musk has dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI just ahead of a scheduled Wednesday hearing on the case.
Musk in February sued the San Francisco artificial intelligence company and its CEO Sam Altman over what he said was a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker's founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits.
In the lawsuit filed in February at San Francisco Superior Court, billionaire Musk said that when he bankrolled OpenAI's creation, he secured an agreement with Altman and Greg Brockman, the president, to keep the AI company as a nonprofit that would develop technology for the benefit of the public and keep its code open instead of walling it off for private gain.
However, by embracing a close relationship with Microsoft, OpenAI and its top executives set that pact "aflame" and are "perverting" the company's mission, Musk alleged in the lawsuit.
Most legal experts said Musk's claims — centered around More
- Tuesday, Jun. 11, 2024
The Television Academy has named veteran entertainment journalist Sam Rubin as the posthumous recipient of the 76th Los Angeles Area Emmy® Governors Award, recognizing his legacy of more than three decades of entertainment news reporting for KTLA.
The Los Angeles Area Emmy award is presented to an individual, company or organization, selected by the Los Angeles Area Governors Award committee, that has made an outstanding, innovative and visionary achievement in the arts, sciences or management of television as well as a substantial contribution to the greater Los Angeles area.
Rubin served as the weekday entertainment anchor on KTLA’s Morning News until his untimely passing on May 10, 2024, at the age of 64. He joined the station in 1991, instantly making an impact as a “disruptor” in local news, as he brought a fun-loving, breezy sensibility to the newsroom, coupled with an encyclopedic knowledge of film and television. Rubin earned a More
- Tuesday, Jun. 11, 2024
"The Boys," Amazon Prime Video's epic superhero satire series, will end with its fifth season.
The show's creator and showrunner Eric Kripke announced "the end has begun" while promoting the series' fourth season, which premieres Thursday on Prime Video.
"Season 4 Premiere Week is a good time to announce: Season 5 will be the Final Season! Always my plan, I just had to be cagey till I got the final OK from Vought," Kripke wrote on X, referencing the powerful company that manages the celebrity-like superheroes on the show. "Thrilled to bring the story to a gory, epic, moist climax."
To accompany the announcement, Kripke shared an image of what appears to be a redacted script for the final episode of the fourth season, with a profane message at the bottom referencing the final season.
The series, which is based on a comic of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, follows a team of vigilantes who take on a group of More
- Tuesday, Jun. 11, 2024
The U.S. Census Bureau didn't properly administer or monitor contract orders worth hundreds of millions of dollars dealing with advertising to promote participation in the 2020 census, possibly wasting taxpayers' dollars, according to the Office of Inspector General.
Bureau contracting officers failed to make sure standards were followed to measure the performance of a contractor and didn't receive supporting documentation for paid media invoices totaling $363 million, according to an audit report released last month by the watchdog agency.
"As a result, the bureau could have accepted substandard performance, potentially wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on advertising that did not fully meet program goals and reach intended audiences," the report said.
The inspector general's audit focused on $436.5 million worth of contract orders for paid advertising promoting participation in the once-a-decade head count that determines More
- Monday, Jun. 10, 2024
The organization behind the Oscars elected over a dozen individuals to its board of governors, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday. The 2024-2025 board of governors include both first-timers, like director Patricia Cardoso, and veterans like Rita Wilson, Warner Bros. co-chair and CEO Pam Abdy and composer Lesley Barber.
Those elected to the board for the first time include production designer K.K. Barrett and producer Jennifer Fox. All will join the likes of Ava DuVernay, Lou Diamond Phillips, Whoopi Goldberg, Jason Reitman, Ruth E. Carter and Jason Blum on the 55-person board representing the organization's 19 branches.
As of this election, representation of those belonging to an underrepresented racial or ethnic group increased from 25% to 27%. Female representation remained static from last year at 53%.
They help oversee the academy's strategic and financial matters and vote on policies like memberships More