Wins In Acting And Editing For First Self-Produced Long-Form TV Series; Pilot Showcases HOBO’s Music/Audio Post Skills The first self-produced long-form TV series The System produced by HOBO Films, a division of audio post/sound design/music studio HOBO Audio took home top honors at the Catalyst Content TV Festival. The pilot won for best actor and best editing. Created, developed and financed […]
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NYPD Takes ‘Joker’ Threat Seriously, Goes Undercover for Opening Weekend
Photo credit: Joaquin Phoenix at the Los Angeles premiere of “Joker” at TCL Chinese Theatre. Jordan Strauss/AP According to department officials, New York City’s police will offer “360-degree policing” for the upcoming opening weekend of Warner Bros/Todd Phillips’ film The Joker. (The film opens Thursday in many venues.) The use of “360” means both undercover […]
Studios Planned for Yonkers and Jersey City Ramp Up Tri-State Movie Production
Lionsgate and indie development Caven Point Studios benefit region workforce as space-hungry studios reach beyond City. Movie production in the New York City region received a further boost with the recent announcements of new studio developments for Yonkers and Jersey City. Santa Monica-based Lionsgate plans to build a $100 million complex in Yonkers that will […]
New York Edges Towards New Hollywood with De Niro’s $400 Million Studio and Netflix Sound Stages
Image: Steinway Artist, Jon Batiste, of The Late Show with Steven Colbert, helped introduce the company’s SPIRIO | r in March at Steinway Hall in Manhattan. According to reports in the New York Times and other outlets, film and video production in New York could reach new heights. Actor Robert De Niro, his real estate […]
Cutters New York’s Superpowers Soar with Addition of Multitalented Editor Alison Grasso
NEW YORK – (Jan. 3, 2019) – Cutters Studios is very proud to announce the addition of highly accomplished commercial editor Alison Grasso to its New York staff, effective immediately. The announcement was made by New York Executive Producer Elizabeth Krajewski. Well known as a staff editor for Crew Cuts in New York, Grasso […]
PowerHouse VFX Rises to Top of New York’s VFX Industry Leveraging Talent and Partnership with Sixteen19
Photo caption: (l to r) PowerHouse’s Bob Lowery, Ed Mendez Buoyed by a string of high-profile film and television projects, PowerHouse VFX has quickly solidified its place as an industry leader on New York’s VFX scene. Founded last year by Emmy Award-winning visual effects supervisor Ed Mendez, executive producer Bob Lowery and chief engineer […]
Film, TV Said Ready to Soar in New Jersey with New Production Tax Credits
This past July, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law tax credits worth 35-percent of $1 million plus of a production’s state tax spends. (New York’s state tax set aside runs 30-percent in NYC and the immediate area with 35-percent available upstate.) This reinstated tax credits that Gov. Christie’s administration revoked. News 12 New […]
L.A. Outpaces New York in Film and Digital Media Job Growth
An article recently posted by Katie Kilkenny of the Hollywood Reporter presents the results of a recent economic study that puts growth of LA’s film and digital media industries as topping that of New York… Despite attractive tax incentives in other states and changing consumer behaviors, the film and digital media workforce in Los Angeles […]
Solar Foldy Puts Sunshine in Your Pocket
Okay, okay, so maybe that’s a bit much. But I really like the idea behind this Kickstarter project. Today, everyone’s very conscious that we’re at “peak oil”. Look at what you will – the dried out forests, encroaching oceans – but humans simply can’t act as if oil and coal don’t have consequences. We’re ready […]
NYU Film Studies Pioneer Annette Michelson Passes Away at 95
Annette Michelson around 1966. Image credit: The Peter Hujar Archive LLC; Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco Film historian, scholar and teacher Annette Michelson passed away at 95 on September 17th. Known both for her sharp intellect and suffer-no-fools attitude, she helped start the program in cinema history and criticism at New […]
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