On Oct. 11, 1975, when "Saturday Night Live" first aired on NBC from Studio 8H in Manhattan's RCA Building, with George Carlin as host and musical guests Billy Preston and Janis Ian, Eugene Lee was…
Visual effects studio Weta Digital has begun work on the four sequels to James Cameron's "Avatar," one of the highest-grossing films ever. The Wellington, New Zealand-based shop was most recently in…
John Toll – the cinematographer best known for his collaboration with such directors as The Wachowskis, Ang Lee, Mel Gibson, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, Cameron Crowe, Edward Zwick and…
Ever since the debut of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" in 2011, Hollywood's visual effects community and mainstream moviegoers alike have been enthralled by the breakthrough digital motion-capture…
In the beginning was the word. This sentence, which launches the Bible, also applies to the film world, where a good script is the underpinning of any successful project. At the Karlovy Vary Intl…
Hope springs eternal among independent film and documentary producers, and several new European initiatives for distributing their work – all wholly or in part supported by Creative Europe, the…
The Location Managers Guild International has announced its newest board members: Alison Taylor, Matt Chamberlin, Mac Gordon and Dan Taylor. The four location pros join returning members Kokayi…
"Amerika Square" won the Orpheus Award for best feature at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival Sunday evening. "Son of Sofia" received the runner-up Special Jury Prize for features. The films were…
The Los Angeles Greek Film Festival will open with the West Coast premiere of "Amerika Square" (pictured above), Yannis Sakaridis' tragic story set in modern Greece as the country copes with dual…
Although "La La Land" didn't win best picture at the Oscars, Damien Chazelle's neo-musical did cop one final trophy at the 4th annual Location Managers Guild International Awards on Saturday night…
Leaders of Hollywood's legal community who gathered at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel Thursday morning at Variety's Power of Law Breakfast heard a cautiously optimistic Nina Shaw address the issues of…
