Woman Arrested in the Killing of Sundance Institute Director Michelle Satter’s Son, Michael Latt
A woman has been arrested for the fatal shooting of Michael Latt, the founder of entertainment marketing firm Lead With Love. The 33-year-old was shot in his Miracle Mile home on Monday night and died after being transported to a hospital. Latt was the son of Michelle Satter, the founding senior director at the Sundance […]
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‘Nosferatu’ From Robert Eggers Sets Holiday 2024 Release
Christmas 2024 is getting a horror entry. Focus Features has dated Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu for Dec. 25, 2024, a date currently occupied by Jordan Peele’s fourth feature, a fellow Universal title. Bill Skarsgard, Nicholas Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp star in Nosferatu, alongside Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney and Willem Dafoe. The film […]
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Doc Producers Call for Generative AI Guardrails in Open Letter
During the SAG and WGA contract negotiations, conversation swirled around Hollywood’s use of artificial intelligence as the industry wrestled with what the new tech could mean for the future of entertainment. Now, a group of documentary producers are hoping to bring attention to the use of generative AI in nonfiction filmmaking, specifically as it pertains […]
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Kim Kardashian Comedy ‘The Fifth Wheel’ Lands at Netflix
Kim Kardashian will be the fifth wheel for Netflix. As previously announced, the reality TV superstar turned budding actress will lead the ensemble comedy movie The Fifth Wheel, which landed at Netflix in a competitive situation. Paula Pell and Janine Brito are behind the screenplay, with plot details being kept under wraps, but Kardashian will […]
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‘Past Lives’ Director Celine Song on How She Landed Her Directorial Debut: “I Knew The Things That Only I Could Know’
Celine Song has thought long and hard about how her current choices will ripple out into the future. “Who we are now cannot escape from who we were once,” says the director behind this year’s indie breakout Past Lives. To make her point, she starts to script a scene between her future self and mine. […]
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Focus Sets Kobi Libii Directorial Debut ‘The American Society of Magical Negroes’
Focus has set The American Society of Magical Negroes, the directorial debut from Kobi Libii, for a March 22, 2024 release. The film is described as a “fresh, satirical comedy about a young man, Aren, who is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost […]
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Next Gen 2023: The Hollywood Reporter’s 35 Rising Executives 35 and Under
In 1993, Jurassic Park (the first one) was the No. 1 movie at the box office, The X-Files went to air and THR debuted its first list of the top 35 Hollywood execs 35 and under. In the 30 years that followed, Next Gen alums have created cinematic universes (Kevin Feige was selected in 2003) […]
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‘Fire of Love’ Producers Sandbox Films Opens New York City Office Space
Sandbox Films — the non-fiction studio behind Oscar nominee Fire of Love — has opened new New York City offices, featuring an ATMOS theater. In addition to the 22-seat theater, the studio, located in the Flatiron District, includes two edit suites and a multimedia facility designed to support a variety of production needs. “We put […]
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Will Packer Launches Management Firm, Shayla Cowan to Run (Exclusive)
Producer Will Packer has launched a management company, Collective Edge, set to be run by longtime Will Packer Productions exec Shayla Cowan. Packer will be managed by Collective Edge which, Cowan said in a statement, will be “dedicated to creating a community of innovators who continuously push boundaries, inspire one another, and redefine what is […]
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AFM: Interim Agreements Complicate Dealmaking, Challenge Indie Financing Models
Getting an independent movie made these days is hard enough but for producers piling into the halls of Santa Monica’s Le Méridien Delfina Hotel for the American Film Market this week, the SAG-AFTRA strike has added another layer of complication. SAG-AFTRA’s Interim Agreements, or IAs, the contract required for independent producers to produce or talent […]
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Taylor Swift Has Set the Stage for a Concert Film Boom
To get this out of the way up top: No one is Taylor Swift. This was the unanimous refrain among players who make and distribute concert films and music documentaries when asked what Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour means for the space. Nonetheless, insiders note that Swift’s is a rising tide that lifts all boats, […]
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Tyler Perry Sets First-Look Film Deal With Netflix
The ever-busy Tyler Perry has signed a multiyear, first-look feature pact with Netflix, with the multihyphenate planning to write, direct and produce films for the streamer. Perry is already working with Netflix on several titles, including Six Triple Eight, a World War II period film about the only all-Black, all-female battalion stationed overseas in the […]
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