Richard Bracken, Film Editor on Wes Craven Movies and 'Rich Man, Poor Man,' Dies at 90

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is always starry a celebration of up and coming filmmakers and Oscar hopefuls, but this year the programmers have also decided to make it more accessible.

Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari is an American film that tells the story of a Korean American family as they uproot from their more metropolitan life in California to a rural one in a small Arkansas town in search of the American dream. In case you didn’t catch on, this is a very American film.

Colson Baker — the man also known as musician Machine Gun Kelly — continues to expand his onscreen acting résumé with his latest film, the thrillerOne Way. Baker plays Freddy, who finds himself on a bus headed into the California desert with a potentially fatal wound after a robbery of his former crime boss goes wrong.

Nearly a year from the industry-wide production shutdown, Hollywood is plotting a major return to filming. The California Film Commission has revealed that 22 feature films have been selected for the latest round of tax credits under the state’s incentives program.

Also Read: Luca Guadagnino to Direct 'Scarface' Reboot for UniversalFrom Universal is the remake of “Scarface,” which is directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by the Coen Brothers.

Also Read: Hollywood Mass Layoffs in 2020 Open Door for a New Breed of Creative Exec: 'Adapt or Die'While production suffered the most extreme losses, all of the creative economy lost jobs after the pandemic hit.

Naman Ramachandran “Curtain Call,” starring starring Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Paapa Essiedu and Simon Russell Beale, has sold to several major territories.To be directed by “Shopgirl” filmmaker Anand Tucker, the film will commence production later this year in the U.K.Culmination Productions has sold to Squareone Entertainment (German-speaking Europe), Notorious Pictures (Italy), California Filmes (Latin America), Cineart (Benelux), Tanweer (Greece), Lusomundo (Portugal), Sena (Iceland),

Bee Vang was born in Fresno, California. He is Hmong and his parents are immigrants from Thailand. He is best known for his role in Clint Eastwood’s 2008 drama Gran Torino, a film that follows a racist Korean War veteran that develops a relationship with a Hmong family.

Haley Bosselman editorEmmy-nominated film and TV editor Richard Bracken has died.

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Primus‘ Les Claypool has shared a western movie-inspired short film in which he appears alongside Metallica‘s Robert Trujillo – you can watch it below.The five-and-a-half-minute Precious Metals, which landed on Primus’ official YouTube channel yesterday (February 10), is described as a “Northern California Gold Rush story [with] a surprise twist you didn’t see coming.“Thrills, chills, suspense, and groove that won’t quit.

Natalie Oganesyan editorLegendary Korean star Yuh-Jung Youn will receive the 2021 Spotlight Award, Actress for her role in the critically-hailed “Minari” at the Palm Springs International Film Awards.“In her first-ever American feature film, ‘Minari,’ Yuh-Jung Youn wonderfully portrays a feisty and foul-mouthed grandmother whose Korean American family has suddenly moved from California to a hardscrabble farm in Arkansas.

A ray of sunshine about Disney’s theme park business and optimistic expectations ahead of the company’s quarterly earnings report on Thursday helped boost the company’s shares 5% to record territory.