L.A. Film Production Booms, Approaches Record Levels

YouTube channel, in content including conversations with filmmakers Destin Daniel Cretton, Phil Lord, Our Lady J, Rawson Marshall Thurber and Olivia Wilde. The winners were chosen from a record number of 8,191 scripts from 89 countries.

Halyna Hutchins final words to the film crew have been revealed one week after she was shot by Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin in a tragic accident.

Andrew Barker Senior Features WriterDespite being the world capital of the film and TV industry, Los Angeles has never been a particularly hospitable place to stage a film festival.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorThe Writers Guild of America has told members not to work for Germany’s Constantin Film, which the union maintains is not a signatory to the 2020 Minimum Basic Agreement.The WGA instructed members in a message sent Friday afternoon that it is invoking its Working Rule 8 to bar members from working for Constantin Film Development.

CAA and Range Media Partners are representing the film rights.The project will be a reunion for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri” writer-director McDonagh with Rockwell, who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in the 2018 crime drama that also starred Frances McDormand.

After going strictly virtual in 2020 due to the pandemic, Deadline’s The Contenders Film: Los Angeles is returning in person at the DGA Theatre on Sunday November 14.

Anya Taylor-Joy has found an unexpected perk of her upcoming role. ET's Matt Cohen spoke to the 25-year-old actress at the Los Angeles premiere of  on Monday, and she revealed the best part of getting to voice Princess Peach in the upcoming Super Mario Bros.

NEW YORK -- Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer who was fatally shot with a prop gun by Alec Baldwin on a movie set, grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle and worked as an investigative reporter in Europe before studying film in Los Angeles.Hutchins, 42, was shot Thursday on the New Mexico set of the Western “Rust.” A spokesperson for Baldwin said there was an accident involving a prop gun with blanks.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer“The Blue Rose,” a new noir thriller from writer- director George Baron, has rounded out its ensemble cast.Joining the project currently shooting in Los Angeles is Ray Wise (“The Lazarus Effect,” “X-Men: First Class”), Danielle Bisutti (“God of War,” “Insidious: Chapter 2″), Nikko Austen Smith (“Queen Sugar,” “The Birch“), Logan Miller (“Love, Simon,” “Escape Room) and newcomer and musician Glüme.

LOS ANGELES -- An 11th-hour deal was reached Saturday, averting a strike of film and television crews that would have seen some 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers walk off their jobs and would have frozen productions in Hollywood and across the U.S.After days of marathon negotiations, representatives from the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and from the studios and entertainment companies who employ them reached the three-year contract agreement before a Monday strike

Ashley Hume The Amazon Original YA horror series “I Know What You Did Last Summer” premiered on Wednesday night with an outdoor screening at The Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. Based on the iconic 1997 slasher movie which was adapted from Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel and starred Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr.

NBC News’ Meet the Press Film Festival will move to Los Angeles this year and will be part of the AFI Fest next month.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLong-running footwear brand Dr. Martens has announced their 2021 “Dr.