2019 saw significant buyout and merger action in the visual effects world. This past mid-December, Friedrichsdorf, Germany-based Maxon – creators of the 3D app Cinema 4D – merged with Red Giant, well known for its advanced filters offering particle effects and more. The two companies will become one under the media and entertainment division of […]
See You at Sundance! NYCPP News to Report from Acclaimed Film Festival
Image: Emily Skeggs and Kyle Gallner appear in Dinner in America by Adam Rehmeier, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Philippe Bernier. The Sundance Film Festival starts tomorrow – January 23 – and I’ll be in Park City, Utah to […]
Broadway Stages plans another LIC film studio
Broadway Stages is bringing another movie production studio to Long Island City. The film and TV production company plans to convert 45-10 19th Avenue, currently a food production facility, into a 30-foot-tall studio, doubling the height of the existing structure there, according to an application filed with the city’s Department of Buildings. Broadway Stages is […]
De Niro Taps Top Architect Bjarke Ingels for New Studio Design
by Jordi Lippe-Mcgraw Robert De Niro hopes to bring a little more Hollywood to New York City with the construction of a new movie studio in Queens, and the Oscar-winning actor has enlisted famed Scandinavian architect Bjarke Ingels to make it happen. Backed by De Niro, his real-estate broker son, Raphael De Niro, Tribeca Enterprises CEO Jane […]
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 […]
Emmy-Nominated Wu-Tang Clan Doc Series Offers Panel on Post Using Adobe
Earlier in the year, Adobe and Showtime hosted a screening and panel at the Metrograph of Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men, a sprawling 4-part documentary about the highly influential hip-hop group. The Showtime series, which premiered at this year’s Sundance festival, has just been nominated for an Emmy award for outstanding writing in a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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