The New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment has launched a new series of initiatives aimed at combating the underrepresentation of women in the entertainment industry, including a $5…
The lingering question of who will replace Cynthia Lopez as New York City’s new film czar has an answer at last in Julie Menin, coming to the post directly from her current job as commissioner of the…
Hoping to score a ticket to “Hamilton”? Try enrolling in a New York City public school. Producers and creators of the box-office-busting Broadway buzzmagnet have partnered with the Rockefeller…
Spending on filmed production in New York City has grown a whopping $1.5 billion in the last four years, hitting a total of $8.7 billion on the back of a TV boom that has also helped push the total…
The story of struggle and triumph at the core of “Selma” clearly resonates with the current generation of African-American business leaders. A group of 27 prominent movers and shakers — including BET…
The Bronx County Courthouse, with its neoclassical majesty, needs no dressing up to double for 1930s Chicago. On a muggy August afternoon, the "Boardwalk Empire" team makes the most of the…
SELLER: Richard Hall, otherwise known as Moby LOCATION: New York City, N.Y. PRICE: $2,050,000 SIZE: 950 square feet, 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom YOUR MAMA’S NOTES: Richard Hall — a man much more well known…
When his heirs and estate executors put billionaire booze baron Edgar Bronfman Sr.’s sprawling penthouse in New York City on the open market in early March with a publicity ensuring $65 million…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has named Cynthia Lopez as the city's film czar, Variety has learned.
With no New York City film czar yet appointed some three months into Mayor Bill de Blasio’s term, the local entertainment industry’s backchannel lobbying has grown increasingly heated — a mark…
The pool of candidates for New York City’s next film commissioner is believed to have been narrowed to a handful of likely suspects, with a decision expected by the end of the month as the city's…
