Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399 Ratifies New Film & TV Contract

Sony Pictures, Filmocracy, the Lantos Foundation and OUT.LI.ER, introduce the 8th Annual Women’s Voices Now Film Festival. The festival will take place on March 24, 2022 and the keynote Speaker is Jaina Lee Ortiz. Like the previous year, the festival will again take place virtually. 

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterLeo T. Reed, an offensive lineman in the American Football League who went on to lead Teamsters Local 399 for 24 years, died on Sunday at the age of 83.Reed was appointed secretary-treasurer of the union in 1988, representing Hollywood studio drivers and other workers for eight terms. He was also chairman of the Basic Crafts unions, responsible for joint negotiations with the studios in partnership with other below-the-line unions.

Leo Reed, former longtime secretary-treasurer of Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399, has died. He was 83. Reed, a former pro football player, served as Local 399’s top officer for 25 years, and as the head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ Motion Picture & Theatrical Trades Division for 20 years. The cause of death was not disclosed by his family.

Tom Brady, 44, is stepping into new territory after announcing his retirement from football, but he may not be completely done playing the popular sport. The legendary quarterback is gearing up to star as himself in an upcoming film but the new opportunity has nothing to do with why he decided to retire at this time in his life.

Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399 has reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP for a new three-year contract covering some 800 location managers and assistant location managers. The local’s negotiating committee is unanimously recommending that members ratify it.

A Glenkens community group has been “blown away“ by the public response to a crowdfunder appeal for a regeneration project.

Wyatte Grantham-Philips editorAmerican High has announced its inaugural American High Film Festival, a new film festival set to showcase films told through the lens of high school-aged characters. Filmmakers of all ages have been invited to submit their projects starting Wednesday.The American High Film Festival will take place at the production company’s flagship studio in Syracuse, N.Y.

Zack Sharf Francis Ford Coppola is putting down $120 million of his own money to make his long-in-the-works passion project “Megalopolis.” Coppola wrote “Megalopolis” in the early 1980s and has been reportedly in talks with Oscar Isaac, Forest Whitaker and Cate Blanchett to finally get the film off the ground. The issue Coppola has faced is that the movie is such an ambitious and expensive original idea that no major studio would ever touch it.Speaking to GQ magazine, Coppola said that major Hollywood executives reacted to his “Megalopolis” pitch the “same way they did when I had won five Oscars and was the hottest film director in town and walked in with ‘Apocalypse Now’ and said, ‘I’d like to make this next.’ I own ‘Apocalypse Now.’ Do you know why I own ‘Apocalypse Now?’ Because no one else wanted it.” Coppola added, “So imagine, if that was the case when I was 33 or whatever the age and I had won every award and had broken every record and still absolutely no one wanted to join me, [then how do you think they’re reacting now?] I know that ‘Megalopolis,’ the more personal I make it, and the more like a dream in me that I do it, the harder it will be to finance.”The plot of “Megalopolis” remains something of a mystery.

Paul Hollywood's ex-wife Alex has really caused a stir with a recent Instagram post.MORE: Great British Bake Off: meet the partners of the judges and hostsThe cookbook author took to social media to reflect on Valentine's Day – and shocked some fans with revelations about her marriage.WATCH: Alex Hollywood reveals why she's keeping married name after divorceReferring to her single status, Alex wrote in part: "It's taken me a while to get here and it hasn't been easy, but I love the woman I am now.

K.J. Yossman “Taurus” is the semi-autobiographical tale of a rap-slash-rock star on the tail-end of a self-destructive kick. Set to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival Feb.

J. Kim Murphy Hollywood Teamsters Local 399 have voted in favor of ratifying a new three-year contract with the industry’s major employers.

the union announced Wednesday night.While actual vote numbers have not been made public, according to the union, voter turnout was 67%, with 89% voting yes. The so-called ‘Black Book’ agreement will cover “Drivers, Dispatchers, Animal Trainers/Handlers, Wranglers, Mechanics, Auto Service and now DOT Administrators, with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP),” the union said.

New Line has acquired Mexican filmmaker Issa López’s original screenplay “The Girl with a Thousand Names,” her follow-up to 2017’s acclaimed “Tigers Are Not Afraid.”López will direct and produce the feature for HBO Max, TheWrap has confirmed.Her breakout film “Tigers Are Not Afraid,” is a hauntingly poetic horror film about a group of children orphaned by cartel violence. It was nominated for nine of Mexico’s Ariel Awards and won two.“The Girl with a Thousand Names” will likely have the same blend of true-life horror and magical realism in its story about unaccompanied minors and children in a detention center who have been separated from their families at the U.S.

Star-crossed lovers? Liam Neeson confessed that he nearly sparked a romance while filming his new action film, Blacklight, in Australia.

The sad story of the Jonestown Massacre is hitting the big screen in a new film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Chloe Grace Moretz, titled “White Night.” According to Variety, director ​​Anne Sewitsky (“A Very British Scandal”) is set to helm the thriller, “White Night,” about Jim Jones and the mass suicide at Jonestown. The film will star Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the cult leader, Jim Jones, with Chloe Grace Moretz playing one of the cult’s inner circle members.