California Film Commissioner Colleen Bell Is Optimistic on Production Comeback

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Amy Poehler will make her documentary feature debut for Imagine Documentaries and White Horse Pictures on Lucy & Desi, the working title for a definitive film about the remarkable personal and professional partnership between comedian Lucille Ball and husband Desi Arnaz.This will be the biggest documentary to be fully financed by Imagine Documentaries and the film will have the benefit of full cooperation from the estate of Ball & Arnaz and

As COVID-19 continues to complicate current filming ambitions, Hollywood is also busy mapping out its future production hopes. As part of those plans, nine new features are planning to shoot in California.

Also Read: The Russo Bros to Direct Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans in $200 Million+ Budgeted 'The Gray Man' at Netflix“After announcing two relocating TV series earlier this month, our new tax credit program continues to get off to a great start with today’s list of film projects,” California Film Commission executive director Colleen Bell said in a statement.

PETA India animal rights activists have named an injured bull after Simon Cowell as the music mogul recovers from a broken back.The America's Got Talent judge is recuperating from surgery at his home in Malibu, California last week, after falling off his electric bike and breaking his back in several places.Now the longtime animal lover has received a unique get-well gift in the form of a bull that also broke its back in South Asia.

After hearing Phil Collins’ “In The Air Tonight” and going viral for their reaction, twin brothers Tim and Fred Williams have taken on another song.

Janet W. Lee California Film Institute’s fundraising forum DocPitch will be held virtually at 7 p.m Aug.

Christian Bale and Joseph Bale enjoyed a fun father-son day at the beach in Malibu, California on August 10. The Academy Award winner, 46, and the adventurous 5-year-old bonded over bodyboarding, as seen in new photos of the pair soaking wet from the ocean water. At one point, they were pictured walking across the sand in search of the best waves to catch.

Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman is auctioning his archive of the band’s memorabilia.

HBO Max has wrapped one of its first productions during the pandemic. Upcoming dog-grooming competition series Haute Dog has completed its four-week-long shoot in Simi Valley, California.

Dave McNary Film ReporterCalifornia’s production tax credit program has attracted HBO’s”‘In Treatment” and TBS’s  “Miracle Workers.”The California Film Commission announced Monday that the drama series “In Treatment” is relocating from New York and that the “Miracle Workers” anthology comedy is moving from the Czech Republic.

On July 1, as COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles began to surge to their highest numbers since the city issued stay-at-home orders in March, the University of Southern California (USC) alerted its students that all fall undergraduate classes would move online.

Page Six has learned that the actress, Bella Thorne, just put her bright-pink home in the rearview mirror. The notorious beauty put her Sherman Oaks, California, home up on the market for $2.55 million.

rebuilding after the devastating wildfire that destroyed most of the Northern California town of Paradise feels almost impossible for that city’s residents – and, in fact, the sequences that give the movie its power often as not deal with the losses that can never really be rebuilt or fixed.And while the film reaches for and finds moments of healing and rejuvenation, it’s easier to walk away from it feeling anger at the causes of the devastation than hopefulness for a community that is still

The Washington Post, Ghaly praised the change in data collection as an important step toward identifying any health disparities that disproportionately affect LGBTQ individuals, and pursuing any required medical interventions that will prevent deaths or serious illnesses stemming from the disease.The announcement comes after pressure from LGBTQ groups, including Equality California, and from politicians, including State Sen.