Oscar & BAFTA-Winning VFX Firm Framestore Restructures & Makes Hires To Meet Growing TV Demand

Moscow-based Ilya Stewart is one of the international film industry’s rising stars. After founding production co Hype in 2011 with Murad Osmann, the pair have rapidly grown the outfit into one of the hottest names in Russia across commercials, music videos, and feature films. Unsurprisingly, TV is also now in the company’s sights.

EXCLUSIVE: Former stuntwoman Leslie Hoffman has won her 11-year legal ordeal with the SAG Pension Plan and the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan, receiving a $125,000 settlement and an acknowledgement that she is entitled, at long last, to receive the occupational disability pension that she’s been fighting for all these years.

EXCLUSIVE: Tomorrow night’s Cannes premiere of Stillwater marks the end of a long odyssey for co-writer/director Tom McCarthy, who put down the script almost a decade ago, and moved on to win an Oscar for co-writing and directing Best Picture winner Spotlight and get nominated for co-writing the Best Animated Film Oscar winner Up.

Typically, filmgoers associate the arrival of autumn with prestigious awards fare. It’s when the big guns come out when studios present their shiniest and most exciting projects.

Famous Russian film director Vladimir Menshov, known for crowd pleasers featuring everyday people, died July 5 in Moscow of Covid complications, according to the Russian film studio Mosfilm and Russian media. He was 81.

is the powerful and immersive coming-of-age documentary directed by Matt Ogens and executive produced by Nyle DiMarco. The 40-minute film follows a Maryland School for the Deaf football player named Amaree McKenstry as well as his teammates and friends as they navigate their senior year of high school and start to grapple with the reality of what comes next.

settlement, the Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose School District has agreed to create new policies that ensure that transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming students have access to restrooms and locker room facilities that align with their gender identity; ensure that transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming students can play on sports teams consistent with the gender identity; and ensure that school officials refer to students by their proper names and preferred pronouns.The settlement

There’s a lot of drama to be found in the new season of “This Way Up.” Luckily, it’s all anchored by the funny comedian, Aisling Bea, allowing the whole Hulu series to offer plenty of laughs to counterbalance the relationship drama that befalls two sisters.

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Irvine Meadow return – then insisted it felt like he'd never been away.The 28-year-old striker made his first appearance for the Dow since September 15, 2018, getting an hour under his belt as Meadow beat Whitletts Victoria 1-0 in a friendly.And Boyd, who has battled back from knee issues and a brain injury, revealed it took a typically robust challenge from Whitletts' warhorse defender Chris McGowan to convince him he's ready to kickstart his career.He said: "It was so strange but it felt like

Palm NFT Studio, whose founding partners include film producer and owner of Heyday Films, David Heyman, and the founder of leading art house publisher HENI Group, has named Straith Schreder to the new role of executive creative director.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorMichelle Lee, Allure’s top editor for the last five and a half years, is joining the Netflix marketing team in a newly created editorial and publishing role.Lee announced her jump to Netflix, where she will be global VP of editorial and publishing, in an Instagram post Monday.Lee in late July will join the Netflix marketing group headed by chief marketing officer Bozoma Saint John, the market veteran who previously worked at companies including Apple and Endeavor.

Matthew McConaughey dove deep into his career resurgence in a recent interview with country singer Tim McGraw.  The actor and Texas native appeared on an episode of McGraw’s "Beyond the Influence Radio" show where he discussed the immense career and spiritual toll that getting himself out of being typecast as a "shirtless rom-com" guy.  The star noted that, early in his career, he played a very specific type of bachelor that audiences and casting agents seemed to respond well to.  "I’m the go-to

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large“I May Destroy You,” “The Flight Attendant” and “Killing Eve” were among the top winners as the Banff World Media Festival revealed the winners to this year’s Rockie Awards International Program Competition. Announced Tuesday via a live, streamed virtual event, this year’s Rockie Awards saw the United Kingdom take home the most kudos, with 11, followed by the United States with ten.

Oscar Lang has shared his third single of the year, ‘21st Century Hobby’.The track dropped on June 8 and follows on from Lang’s previously released tracks ‘Are You Happy?’ and ‘Stuck’, both of which hit streaming services earlier this year.On ‘21st Century Hobby’, Lang pairs modern lyrical content with retro production to scintillating effect.Watch the track’s official visualiser below.“‘21st Century Hobby’ is a tune based on the idea of society’s obsession with sharing your life online and