“The Godfather” trilogy and “Apocalypse Now” filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola will be the 50th recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award. The American Film Institute (AFI) Board of Trustees announced that Coppola will presented the award — the institution’s highest honor for a career in film — during a gala tribute ceremony held at the Dolby […]

At the end of 2021’s “Dune,” Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atriedes looks out across the desert in awe as he sees a Fremen of Arrakis riding a sandworm. It was a tease of what was to come from director Denis Villeneuve in this year’s “Dune: Part Two.” Paul and his mother Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) immerse themselves […]

Sundance Institute and Gold House have named the 10 recipients of the One House Filmmakers Fund. The fund is designed to provide unrestricted financing, educational support and amplification for filmmakers from historically underrepresented communities. The 10 filmmakers are Pierre Coleman (“Ricky”), Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan (“Hum”), Colette Ghunim (“Traces of Home”), Julia Kennelly (“Clare”) Sofian […]

Oscar-winning actor Catherine Zeta-Jones recalls meeting “Chicago” costume designer Colleen Atwood in her workshop before the musical began filming. “It was this explosion of costume and dancing fishnet tights hanging from every hook,” says Zeta-Jones. “I remember meeting her for the first time and looking at her designs, giddy with anticipation, and looking at her […]

Makeup artist David Anderson is no stranger to sculpting and applying prosthetics. “Death Becomes Her,” “Batman,” “The Nutty Professor” are just some of the characters he’s had to apply makeup on. When producer Kayla Foster called on Anderson to watch a 15-minute short “Your Monster,” he had thoughts. While Tommy Dewey’s performance was impressive as […]

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “Conclave,” now playing in theaters. It’s no secret that the Vatican prohibits filming inside the Sistine Chapel, and the headquarters of the Catholic Church was not going to make exceptions for Edward Berger’s “Conclave.” Based on the Robert Harris thriller of the same name, the film stars Ralph Fiennes […]

As Paul Tazewell was conceiving design ideas for “Wicked,” mushroom gills served as an unlikely inspiration for Elphaba’s black dress. The costume designer had stumbled across a documentary about mushrooms. Tazewell says, “I became aware of the beauty of different kinds of mushrooms because of the texture and different colors.” Tazewell was tasked with designing […]

Director Jason Reitman and cinematographer Eric Steelberg first met as teenagers, and the two soon became friends who shared a love of filmmaking. Steelberg recalls Reitman was “another skinny dude who loved movies. I met him, and he was playing with Legos and a Super 8 camera. It was fantastic. That’s what I did, too. […]

FilmLA, the quasi-public agency that handles film permits in Los Angeles, has reported a weak third quarter for 2024. Production in the Greater Los Angeles area dropped 5 percent to 5,048 shoot days. Scripted television producers logged 758 shoot days last quarter across the economically important TV Drama, TV Comedy and TV Pilot categories. There […]

Feathers McGraw is back! Netflix has released the first trailer for “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” which sees the penguin supervillain making a grand return. The new 70-minute feature marks the first “Wallace & Gromit” feature since 2005’s Oscar-winning “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.” And the return of Feathers McGraw is […]

Kelly Marie Tran, Benedict Wong and Jimmy O. Yang are set to star in “Rock Springs,” a new film from writer-director Vera Miao. The official logline for the film reads, “A grieving young girl, along with her mother and grandmother, move to Rock Springs, Wyo. after the death of her father, only to discover there is […]

Animation distributor GKIDS has been acquired by Japan’s Toho. GKIDS will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Los Angeles-based Toho International. Founder Eric Beckman will remain as CEO of GKIDS, and Dave Jesteadt will remain as president. Beckman and Jesteadt have run the company since 2009, when they released “The Secret of Kells.” Since then, […]

A costume exhibit dedicated to over four decades of costume designer Sandy Powell’s career has opened at SCAD’s Museum of Fashion and Film in Atlanta. Powell, whose credits include “Orlando,” “Shakespeare in Love” and “Far From Heaven” was on hand for the exhibit’s opening. “It been a very strange experience,” Powell told Variety. “It is […]

“Saturday Night” director Jason Reitman didn’t want a score that paid homage to “Saturday Night Live.” Musician Jon Batiste says, “He wanted a pressure cooker of a score, and I interpreted that to mean that he wanted me to do an anti-score.” “Saturday Night” follows a tense 90 minutes on October 11, 1975, as Lorne […]

Netflix announced it will release the Christmas romantic comedy “Our Little Secret” on Nov 27. It stars Lindsay Lohan, Tony-award winning Kristin Chenoweth, “Pretty Little Liars” alum Ian Harding and former “SNL” and “Mean Girls” cast member Tim Meadows. The storyline is that of two exes, Lohan and Hardin, who find themselves having to spend […]

In Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice,” there is a scene where Donald Trump (played by Sebastian Stan) gets a hair transplant to remove a bald spot as well as liposuction to look slimmer. The film follows Trump as he starts out as a local real estate developer in the 1970s to become a national celebrity in […]

In “Joker: Folie à Deux,” there is a scene where Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck is awaiting sentencing. He’s just fired his defense attorney and he’s decided he’s going to represent himself. His lover Harleen “Lee” Quinzel (Lady Gaga) comes to visit him in his jail cell, giving him a kiss as the guard yells “No […]