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Charles D. King made history tonight, becoming the first African American producer to accept the PGA Milestone Award.

In a meditative and heartfelt speech, Barbra Streisand accepted the SAG Life Achievement Award on Saturday by paying tribute to the industry’s roots and extolling her abiding passion for the craft.

Brilliant bombshell Hedy Lamarr, the Austria-born Hollywood hottie who carved out a concurrent career as a pioneer of weapons and communication technology in World War II, died on this day in history, Jan. 19, 2000. She was 85 years old.

The Producers Guild of America announced today that Charles D. King will be honored with the 2024 Milestone Award, citing “his immeasurable contribution to the film industry.” King will accept the award at the 35th Annual Producers Guild Awards on Sunday, February 25.

Will the Hollywood studio become extinct?

“How did I become Tom Joad? I used to write for a living.”

Tim Gray Senior Vice President Millions of moviegoers think the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has one purpose: To hand out Oscars. Members know that’s not true and veteran AMPAS exec Bruce Davis reveals that awards were initially a low priority for the organization, in his new book “The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences” (Brandeis University Press) about the early decades of the group.  Davis also makes clear that the group, formed in 1927 as movies were undergoing seismic shifts, made decisions that forever changed the way we watch movies — but that had nothing to do with Oscar.

Newly crowned Warner Bros Film Group Co-Chairpersons and CEOs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy will receive The Producers Guild of America’s 2023 Milestone Award.

He spoke in a raspy monotone that was at once commanding, yet menacing. Howard Strickling officially was the public relations boss of MGM during its heyday, but his real responsibility, he would explain, was protection more than publicity.

Sarky Mouradian, an Armenian writer-director who also hosted a U.S. TV series in which he interviewed celebrity countrymen, has died. He was 90.

Wilson Chapman editorJudd Bernard, the producer and screenwriter behind films such as “Point Blank” and “Double Trouble,” died Jan. 25 in Burbank, Calif., his family confirmed to Variety.

Director George Lucas and Lucasfilm president/producer Kathleen Kennedy will be honored with the 2022 Milestone Award, the Producers Guild of America announced today. The award is being given “for their unparalleled contributions to the film industry both individually and collaboratively through Lucasfilm.”

George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy will be honored with the Milestone Award from the Producers Guild of America (PGA) at the upcoming 2022 ceremony, acknowledging their contributions to the film industry both individually and collectively through Lucasfilm. The duo will accept the honor at the 33rd Annual Producers Guild Awards on Saturday, March 19, 2022 at the Fairmont Century Plaza.  Past recipients of the Milestone Award, which is the PGA’s most prestigious honor, include Steven Spielberg, Bob Iger, Sherry Lansing, Clint Eastwood, James Cameron, Walt Disney, Louis B.

George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy, stewards of the Star Wars universe and numerous other notable motion pictures, are being honored by the Producers Guild of America for their contributions to the film industry. The PGA said Friday that Lucas and Kennedy will receive the Milestone Award at the Producers Guild Awards in March, joining the ranks of previous honorees that include Louis B.

MGM’s Louis B. Mayer famously observed that “no one is born a star, they’re made a star.” I wonder how he would explain Timothée Chalamet, who is starring in three of the most important releases of the next six weeks, breaking every MGM rule in doing so.

The podcasting business is at an unusual crossroads; the market, which is set to see revenues of $1B this year, has attracted A-list names from The Obamas, Harry and Meghan and Matthew McConaughey and has become one of the leading farm systems for IP, but there is still a wild west sense to the medium.

Frank Capra. Louis B.

Just about one year ago, I left my office on the Sony lot in Culver City around 8 p.m. on a Tuesday night, expecting to return the next morning to pick up again on the latest Sisyphean tasks.

Also on this day: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that would bear his name.The Confederate Congress admits Missouri as the 12th state of the Confederacy after Missouri’s disputed secession from the Union. Sinn Fein is founded in Dublin.

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Irun my house and it's a full-time job running this studio," Edith "Edie" Mayer Goetz said in 1967, settled in her Holmby Hills mansion, the epicenter of Hollywood social life for more than 20 years. Her father, Louis B.