NYC Production & Post News
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 […]
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 […]
“The “Hollywood East” movement isn’t exclusive to New York City’s five boroughs. Over in Saratoga Springs, filmmaker and Skidmore College screenwriting professor Nicole Coady has launched a new production company called Trident Fantasy Films. Coady, whose film career spans more than 25 years, has had screenplays produced by big name companies, including New Line Cinema […]
CATSKILL, N.Y. – The culmination of three years of work was on display to the public Saturday as part of the grand opening of Lumberyard, an $8.2 million center for film and performing arts. Lumberyard is a more than 7,000-square-foot theater located at 62 Water St. in the village, Executive and Artistic Director Adrienne Willis […]
Above image: The Editors Guild Board of Directors voted unanimously on July 28 to recommend members VOTE NO on the tentative IATSE contract. Photo by Fred Arteaga. In recommending a “no vote” on the ratification of new IATSE film and TV contract, Editors Guild Local 700 says that the pact’s new media residuals formula has such […]
According to people familiar with the situation, Amazon.com Inc. is in the running to acquire the Landmark Theater chain. This would vault the e-commerce giant into the brick-and-mortar cinema industry,. The company is vying with other suitors to acquire the business from Wagner/Cuban Cos., which is backed by billionaire Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner, according to the people, […]
NBC New York reports that “Authorities are looking to question “Blade Runner” actress Sean Young in connection with the theft of two laptops stocked with footage from a film being shot in Queens, which Young was fired from four months ago. “Law enforcement sources said Young and her son stole two Apple Mac Pros with […]
“New York City, with film and TV production humming along to the point that it is outgrowing existing facilities, is going deeper into Brooklyn for its newest frontier. The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and the New York City Economic Development Corporation are soliciting proposals to develop nearly 200,000 square feet of waterfront real estate in Sunset […]
Any day of the year, New Yorkers can catch foreign films, indies or classics at Film Forum, the art house and repertory cinema in Lower Manhattan. “Three hundred sixty-five days a year,” said Karen Cooper, the director of Film Forum. “We’re worse than the post office.” But for the last three months, the space has […]
To most observers, the closure of two movie screening rooms that shared a block near Times Square with a strip club and a souvenir boutique might seem like just another symptom of a changing neighborhood. But for film critics in New York, the shuttering of Magno Review 1 and 2, which will show their last […]
