The entertainment industry is warning Gov. Gavin Newsom that the state risks undermining California production if it imposes a new limit on corporate tax credits. In a June 8 letter, a coalition of industry and labor groups argued that the governor’s budget proposal will cost production jobs and sabotage the state’s film incentive. “The result […]VarietyRead More
For Colombian rising animation talent María Cristina Pérez, whose experimental short “Once in a Body” (“Una vez en un Cuerpo”) competed in the Annecy Animation Festival’s Perspectives sidebar, human connection is the overriding theme in her growing body of work. This is her fourth short, which she dedicates to her sister. “The story portrayed in…
SAG-AFTRA leaders are beginning the process of selling their new studio contract to the membership, amid lingering concerns about artificial intelligence and the merger of two pension funds. The deal, unveiled on Monday, allows studios to use synthetic performers only if they bring “significant additional value” to a project. It also requires studios to notify…
HBO’s “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is bringing “Game of Thrones” fans back to Westeros in a time period that hasn’t been explored before. Based on George R. R. Martin’s “Tales of Dunk and Egg” novellas, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” follows the lumbering hedge knight Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) and…
Drop the definite article and you have a more apt title for “At the Sea,” a drab and laborious recovery drama with a mystifying amount of major-league talent behind it. The second English-language feature from Hungarian virtuoso Kornél Mundruczó, it promises on paper a similarly potent female character study to his first: 2020’s “Pieces of…
Laurie Metcalf arrived for the first day of filming Netflix’s “Big Mistakes” with something she needed to get off her chest. She doesn’t recall where she said it, but it was probably in the hair and makeup trailer sitting next to series co-creator and her co-star Dan Levy. “We had just barely met at that…
The microdrama industry is moving fast — sometimes from concept to camera in 48 hours — and the executives building it say Hollywood is only beginning to pay attention. At a Hollywood Radio and Television Society Associates panel held Thursday evening on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, four veterans of the vertical drama space…
