USC Report: Banner Year For Female Actors Of Color, But Film Industry Only Paying “Lip Service” To Casting Of Other Underrepresented Performers In Leading Roles

The percentage of female characters portrayed in the 100 top domestic grossing films increased only “slightly” last year compared to 2021, according to the latest report from San Diego State. Last year, they accounted for 33% of the protagonists – up from 31% in 2021, but well below the 40% high-water mark achieved in 2019.

The film industry is honoring Tom Sizemore after learning the actor died from a brain aneurysm at the age of 61. Sizemore, best known for his role as Mike Horvath in "Saving Private Ryan," died peacefully in his sleep on Friday at St. Joseph’s Hospital Burbank surrounded by his brother Paul and 17-year-old twin boys Jayden and Jagger, Sizemore's representative Charles Lago said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

At previous in-person editions of Filmart, Hong Kong’s major film companies, including Edko Films, Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP), One Cool Group, Universe Films and Media Asia, always anchored the trade show floor with huge, elaborate booths promoting the latest Hong Kong films, animation and TV series. 

EXCLUSIVE: Baseball icon Roberto Clemente is getting the biopic treatment from producer Jonah Hirsch (Resistance: 1942, First) and actor/producer AJ Muñoz in collaboration with the Clemente family. The as-yet-untitled film will be based on the family’s best-selling book Clemente: The True Legacy of an Undying Hero.

Water From Your Eyes have announced that they will release their latest album ‘Everyone’s Crushed’ this spring – their first since signing to Matador.On it, the experimental pop duo attempt to draw humour from darkness – both societal and personal – a juxtaposition that lends a brooding tension to their sound.The album’s first single is ‘Barley’, which sees vocalist Rachel Brown deliver deadpan vocals over Nate Amos’s disjointed, urgent musical backing.“’Barley’ is a rhythmic sound collage experiment drawing from modern classical, classic rock, and dance music”, they say of the song. “The lyrics suggest repeated futile attempts at attaining the unattainable and allude to Sting and Sonic Youth”.“The video mirrors these concepts in scope, texture, and variety – juxtaposing feelings of entrapment and late stage capitalism against the sense of freedom inherent to the vast American landscape”, they add.

Scott Sternberg Productions and CJ ENM are teaming to bring Korean lifestyle format Get It Beauty to the U.S.

Rupert Murdoch said in a recent deposition that he “would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing” Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 presidential election, conspiracy theories that the Fox Corp. executive chairman at once called “bulls— and damaging.”

National Muffin Day on Sunday, February 26, 2023. Why the celebration? Because the world is bleak and cake for breakfast is the kind of crumb that can be counted on. Unless of course it’s the hastily wrapped in cellophane sort, sitting somber on the counter of a nameless bakery in a Midwest airport at 7 PM.

Comedian Sebastian Maniscalo is heading to the big screen in his first starring role, and he’s bringing Robert De Niro along for the ride.

NATO will present Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas with its Spirit of the Industry Award at CinemaCon in April for the event’s closing night Big Screen Achievement Awards.

Sebastian Maniscalco made the jump from stand-up comic to actor about five years ago, with small turns in “Cruise,” “Tag,” and “Green Book.” Then he had his first meaty role as “Crazy” Joe Gallo in Martin Scorsese‘s “The Irishman.” Now Maniscalco teams up with another “Irishman” actor, Robert De Niro, for his first starring role in “About My Father.” READ MORE: The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2023 Maniscalco plays a fictional version of himself in the upcoming film, about an Italian guy getting married to his all-American long-time girlfriend and the culture clash that happens when his old-school dad (De Niro) crashes a summer holiday weekend.

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock is stocking up on more true-crime docuseries.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated producer David Hoberman (Shotgun Wedding) has today announced the launch of Hobie Films, a new production company whose development and acquisitions will be overseen by VP Julie Meschko.

.The US and UK currently don't offer this benefit as standard, but we hope that more governments will take inspiration from Spain—as well as Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, South Korea, and Zambia—in accommodating the impact of periods on our health.Studies have found that the workplaces ignoring the impact of periods on an employee affects productivity considerably, as well. that people who menstruate tend to work through their period pain, and it makes them less productive.

SZA‘s ‘SOS’ has broken a seven-year chart record in the US as it celebrates its ninth week at Number One.The long-awaited album, which was the singer’s first in half a decade and followed 2017’s ‘Ctrl’ upon release in December, has been riding high in the charts ever since it dropped.This week, it celebrated its ninth week at the summit of the Billboard 200 chart, making it the first album by a woman to hit that milestone in seven years. In its ninth week, the record sold 93,000 equivalent album units.The ninth chart-topping week breaks a record held by Adele‘s ’25’ since March 2016, with Taylor Swift the only other woman to achieve the mark in the last 10 years with ‘1989’.Billboard 200: #1(=) @sza, SOS 93,000 (1,401,000 units since release).

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EXCLUSIVE: Pig and Manodrome producer Ben Giladi is formally launching his production banner Liminal Content at this year’s Berlin Film Festival where Manodrome debuted in Competition.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent The César Awards are characterized as France’s answer to the Oscars. And just like their awards show cousin halfway across the world, the Césars are embroiled in controversy after failing to nominate any women directors.  This year’s Academy Awards were slammed by advocacy groups after ignoring the likes of Gina Prince-Bythewood (“The Woman King”) and Sarah Polley (“Women Talking”) in favor of an all-male contingent of auteurs. The Césars have followed suit with an all-male group of directing nominees, despite a banner year for French female filmmakers. It’s one that saw directors from Alice Diop (“Saint Omer”) to Claire Denis (“Stars at Noon”) dominating the festival circuit and scoring prizes, only to come up short when the Césars unveiled their contenders on Jan. 25. The omission has sparked a debate about gender equity and sexism in the French film business, as well as social media protests emblazoned with the hashtag #CesarsSoMale, an allusion to the #OscarsSoWhite campaign that erupted in 2015 when the Academy nominated an all-white group of acting nominees. 

EXCLUSIVE: Price Productions has wrapped production on Mad Props, a new feature documentary featuring iconic actors Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street), Lance Henriksen (Aliens), Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) and more.

Christopher Vourlias When a young Viesturs Kairiss started to dream about becoming a filmmaker thirty-some-odd years ago, he knew his path wouldn’t be straightforward or easy. Before the fall of the Soviet Union, aspiring Latvian directors would have to travel to Moscow or St. Petersburg to enroll in venerable Soviet film schools. After independence, Kairiss was among the first class of graduates from the newly launched film studies program at the Latvian Academy of Culture, one of many ways in which the small Baltic republic attempted to assert its own identity after half a century of Soviet rule. “We didn’t have any technique,” Kairiss admits of he and his film school peers, laughing. For his first feature film, “Leaving by the Way” (2001), he enlisted friends for below-the-line work and recruited actors from the local theater school. When the film bowed in the Crystal Globe competition at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, it was the culmination of what he describes as “a totally crazy, passionate journey” for a group of filmmakers laboring in an industry that didn’t truly exist.