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 […]
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 […]
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