UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television's Professional Programs has revealed the winners of its 2023 Feature Screenplay, Television Pilot and Acting for the Camera Pitch competitions. The winners are determined by a panel of industry experts and UCLA alumni. The first-place laureates in each…

Robert Downey Jr. and Jimmy Fallon are going down memory lane and remembering the time they auditioned for Nancy Meyers’ The Holiday. Things didn’t go well for Downey Jr. and Fallon as they recalled on The Howard Stern Show how bad they fumbled their audition for the romantic comedy. “We both…

Treegate just became a thing. City Controller Kenneth Mejia has vowed to look into the newly pruned Ficus trees outside of Universal’s Gate 8, after picketers drew attention to their thinned branches while marching in 90-degree-plus heat. Pine trees on the opposite side of Barham weren’t touched, and…

Christopher Nolan is getting a big endorsement for Oppenheimer from Paul Schrader who is praising his latest film. In a post on Facebook, the Taxi Driver screenwriter and American Gigolo director shared a photo alongside Nolan giving high marks to the movie about the atomic…

SAG-AFTRA has granted approval to 39 independent productions to shoot during the actors strike, after confirming that they are not linked to AMPTP companies. The list includes two A24 projects, and Deadline first reported on Monday that faith-based series The Chosen was likely to get one, which now is…

Barbie is a surprisingly profound film, more philosophical and existential than one initially would expect from a franchise rooted in plastic fashion dolls that became a cultural icon in the late 1950s. This was a period in time when young girls were in desperate need of role models, and Barbie came along…

Writers Guild of America West members paid more dues than ever before on record earnings in the year before the ongoing strike, although a good part of that may be due to a speed-up in pre-strike production. Exact figures aren't available because the guild did not include earnings and employment…

What on earth possessed a whole bunch of us to think pink on Monday night? True, many of us were in a playful mood, me included, because Warner Bros Discovery was hosting a series of multimedia screenings of Barbie across several screens at two multiplexes in central London. It's following hot on the…

Concord is reaching into its huge library of music recordings for a first-of-its-kind initiative with Outfest to support up-and-coming LGBTQIA+ filmmakers of color. Over the weekend, the festival premiered three short films selected for the initiative — each of them making creative use of a song from…

At a time when Hollywood is suffering through historic dual strikes by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA, the motion picture industry is poised to see an enormous weekend at the box office with Warner Bros/Mattel’s long-awaited toy feature adaptation Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s three-hour World War II-era drama Opp…

It’s Day 5 of the SAG-AFTRA strike and Day 79 of the WGA strike.  Writers and actors on strike simultaneously for the first time in more than 60 years fanned out across Manhattan on Tuesday morning with renewed demands for better pay, more job security and limits on the use of artificial intelligence…

Big-name SAG-AFTRA members took to the picket lines outside major studios again today after joining forces last week with WGA strikers who walked out on May 2. Protests are expected outside the studios and networks in Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere across the U.S. This marks the first strike for actors in the…