DGA Says Upcoming Film & TV Contract Talks Promise To Be “One Of Most Difficult” In Years

In 2021, filmgoing audiences were treated to “CODA,” an affectionate look at a music-loving high school senior and her complicated bond with a deaf mother, father, and sibling. A year earlier, “Sound of Metal” presented the devastating journey of a rock drummer’s hearing loss and subsequent attempts to cope with his unfortunate predicament.

After growing up on a steady diet of “Law & Order: SVU,” Dianey Bermeo wanted to be like Olivia Benson, helping victims of sex crimes by bringing their assailants to justice. She gave up on that dream after police investigators in her college town failed to find the man who she said impersonated an officer and sexually assaulted her.

Editors of Saturday Night Live’s pre-filmed segments are threatening to go on strike unless NBCUniversal bargains a fair contract for them with the Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700. NBCUniversal, however, reached out to the guild tonight to offer new dates for talks that could avert a walkout.

In Montana’s Big Sky Country, a black cloud hangs over the state’s expansive horizon. It looms above the indigenous residents of the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Reservations and nearby towns in Big Horn County most of all.

Paul Gertz also serving as exec producers.The brand also announced a multiyear overall deal with filmmaker and “Summer of Soul” producer Joseph Patel, who will produce, write and direct new projects through his banner Dub Version under the terms of his new deal. He is repped by Kate Hurwitz at Cinetic Media, and Marc Simon, Alex Threadgold and Daniel Spencer at Fox Rothschild LLP.“Anthem” will premiere on Hulu as part of Onyx Collective’s overall deal with Proximity.

The prospect of deep-sea mining may seem like a solution to our ever-growing fuel crisis. Polymetallic nodules that sit on the ocean floor are made up of the very type of metals that so-called ‘green’ companies need to build batteries.

So, what’s the hold up on humans going to Mars? Is it a technology issue? Is no one volunteering? Is it too dangerous? Is this all Elon Musk’s fault? Believe it or not, what’s stopping humans from going to Mars has little to do with any of those things. Sure, there are loads of physical dangers lurking around every proverbial corner, but if Ido Mizrahy’s “The Longest Goodbye” is anything to go by, the problem with humans getting to Mars is simply, and unsurprisingly, humans themselves.

At today’s opening day Sundance press, Director of Programming, Kim Yutani announced the addition of Doug Liman’s first documentary, Justice, about Brett Kavanaugh.

Stephen Fry-Narrated Doc Set For Prime Video

Though Ti West has been making films for years now, it’s quite obvious that 2022 was by far the biggest year of his career. Not only did he release the acclaimed slasher, “X,” but he quickly followed that up with the prequel, “Pearl,” which might actually be the better of the two films.

Dax Shepard confessed to Anna Kendrick that his wife, Kristen Bell, was envious of her as the Pitch Perfect star began her career.

The year is 1995, and you’ve submitted your film to the Sundance Film Festival, and they’ve said no. What do you do? Are you disappointed? Yes.

Prince Harry is backtracking with his comment about Prince William‘s “alarming baldness”!

Clearing the air. Prince Harry addressed past claims that a royal family member voiced “concerns” about son Archie’s skin color — and admitted he didn’t consider the comments to be “racist.”

In the first of a number of interviews promoting new memoir Spare, Prince Harry has said he’s “spent the last six years trying to get through to my family privately” before reaching the point of “fleeing my home country fearing for our lives.”

Is Hirokazu Kore-Eda eyeing a Cannes 2023 world premiere for his upcoming film “Monster“? It looks that way, as he’s already in post-production for the film, slated for a June 2 theatrical release in his native Japan. And as work on the film continues, more news on Kore-Eda’s collaborators breaks.