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 […]
Netflix the Only Hollywood Studio to Speak Out in Attack Against Abortion Rights
Many of Hollywood’s most powerful content companies have maintained a deafening silence on the raging abortion legislation debate that’s sweeping the country as their star talent and producers go off script to speak out about threats to women’s reproductive rights and boycott states like Georgia that have signed the bills. Protests are erupting on the […]
HBO says Mark Ruffalo production shut down in wake of Ellenville fire
A massive fire damaged an Ellenville car dealership Thursday morning on Main Street. (Photo: Courtesy of Timothy Barney) HBO has shut down production for “I Know This Much is True” starring Mark Ruffalo in the wake of a fire in Ellenville that destroyed an automobile dealership being used as a filming location. Ellenville police officers and firefighters responded to the blaze […]
First-City Funded VR/AR Center in the Country Opens at Brooklyn Navy Yard
Photo credit: Kreg Holt (This is a long release from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment; if you would like a more enjoyable reading experience, check out The Bridge, Brooklyn Business News’ article.) Brooklyn, New York – On October 24, 2018, New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and the Mayor’s Office of Media and […]
Rochester Institute of Technology opens doors on new MAGIC Spell Studios
Reported by by Vienna McGrain, RIT University News October 30, 2018 Live filming of a commercial. Live audio mixing with sound engineers. Screenings of short films created by students. Video game development demonstrations. Tours and hands-on experiences were the order of the day as Rochester Institute of Technology formally opened the newest building on campus—the 52,000-square-foot MAGIC Spell […]
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 […]
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 […]
Why Hollywood vet Nicole Coady ditched LA for NY to launch her own production company
“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’s Lumberyard Performance and Production Space Opens
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 […]
Editors Guild Recommends No Vote on New Media Contract
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 […]
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