The Sundance Institute on Friday announced six finalists in its search for a new host location for the influential film festival. After 40 years in Park City, Utah, the festival is eyeing locations ...

Bob Newhart, the deadpan accountant-turned-comedian who became one of the most popular TV stars of his time after striking gold with a classic comedy album, has died at 94. Jerry Digney, Newhart’s ...

As a prelude to its “The Road To Oscar” weekly series of feature stories which gets underway next month, SHOOT touches base with several artisans already generating buzz this awards season, including ...

COMPANY, headed by executive producers Robin Benson and Richard Goldstein, has signed director Michael Shapiro for commercial representation. Shapiro’s storytelling has recently been highlighted in ...

The 2021 SXSW Film Festival has unveiled its juried and special award winners. The two marquee honors went to The Fallout, directed by Megan Park, which topped the Narrative Feature competition, and ...

Director Stephen Frears first worked with actress Judi Dench on Going Gentry, a BBC2 teleplay in 1981. They have since reunited three times—in 1983’s telefilm Saigon: Year of the Cat, 2005’s Mrs.

An aspiring filmmaker as well as an established one have each contributed a short film to the lauded Philips “Parallel Lines” online campaign out of DDB London. The former director is Keegan Wilcox ...

Leo Burnett Chicago had a big night at the ADC 101st Annual Awards, winning Agency of the Year and the coveted Black Cube for Best of Show for “The Lost Class” on behalf of Change the Ref. The work, ...

Stept, a creatively integrated production company with offices in Los Angeles and Jackson Hole (Wyoming), has added Toby Wosskow, Andy Maser, and Max Lowe to its roster for exclusive commercial ...

The latest commercial for BIDvest, one of South Africa’s largest companies, directed by Marc Sidelsky of Bouffant, which has offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town, for agency Brand Wealth Organization ...

As 2014 draws to a close, it’s time for reflection on assorted industry fronts, including assessing what work was among the year’s most worthwhile creatively. Determining any year’s “best” is a highly ...

It’s fitting that in a year when the Visual Effects Society presents Martin Scorsese with its Lifetime Achievement Award, the director’s latest release, The Irishman (Netflix), is breaking new ground, ...