SAG-AFTRA is preparing for its next film and TVcontract negotiations. The guild’s current pact doesn't expire until July 1, 2020. The 160,000-member union's board tonight approved the establishment of a wages & working conditions negotiating committee, and appointed SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris as its…
Blockchain, the technology that underlies digital currencies, is finding fresh application in Hollywood.
Veteran entertainment industry marketer Amorette Jones joined with technologist Matej Boda to build a blockchain-based platform for the film industry. Their new venture, Treeti, would seek to harness the disruptive…
Refresh for updates Horror legend George A. Romero was remembered by Stephen King, Eli Roth and other colleagues today, with King even crowning Romero his “favorite collaborator.” Hostel director Eli Roth posted a series of tweets praising the Night of the Living Dead, saying a “direct line” could be drawn from that…
Kodak CEO Jeff Clarke nearly took the company out of the celluloid film production business about a year an a half ago — relenting when Warner Bros, Universal, Paramount, Disney, and Weinstein Co. committed to buy a set amount of film stock for several years.
But after finding several additional buyers for the product…
“Nobody likes guards.” And these guys seem to get a little too deeply into their role playing in director Kyle Patrick Alvarez's drama based on Stanford professor Philip Zimbardo's infamous social experiment using college kids as prison guards and inmates. The movie that IFC Films acquired out of Sundance took the…
UPDATE:Â Add Martin Scorsese to the parade of directors applauding Kodak’s decision to continue producing film stock. He acknowledges that cameras shooting digital HD “are lighter, it's much easier to shoot at night, we have many more means at our disposal for altering and perfecting our images. And, the cameras are…
EXCLUSIVE: I hear that the Williamstown Theatre Festival's eagerly anticipated revival of Fool For Love is about to undergo a key casting switch: Out are leads Chris Pine (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit; Cinderella’s Prince in Disney’s upcoming bowdlerization of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods) and…
UPDATED WITH FULL LIST: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced nominations for the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards this morning at the Beverly Hilton. Aziz Ansari, Zoe Saldana and Olivia Wilde handled the unveiling of names and titles in 25 film and TV categories after being introduced by new HFPA president…
Listen to (and share) episode 52 of our audio podcast “Deadline Awards Watch, with Pete Hammond."
Deadline's awards columnist talks with host David Bloom about the Independent Spirit Awards nominations, which feature plenty of Oscar contenders, and perhaps not enough truly spirited indie films; a Q&A with Oscar Isaac…
TV advertisers become depressed when the conversation turns to DVRs, which give viewers the power to record shows and then speed through the commercials. But movie theaters and studios have less to fear than just about everyone else according to a new online survey of 1,500 moviegoers by Worldwide Motion Picture…
