The provisional deal, which is still subject to a ratification vote, raises wages by 7 percent in the first year, includes language covering AI and applies additional penalties for long workdays. On Tuesday night the crew union IATSE reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract covering 13 West Coast Locals with Hollywood’s top studios and […]
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Bec Mortimer, Fiona Lamptey, Amber Taylor and Vinnie Shergill, four former senior Netflix executives who between them have decades of experience in the entertainment industry involving some of the world’s most successful shows, have joined forces to launch Juno Studios. Headquartered in London, the new venture is described as an “innovative entertainment studio” with production capabilities and […]
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Production on HBO‘s “Game of Thrones” spinoff series “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” has started in Belfast, Ireland. The production will be based at Titanic Studios, where much of the original “Game of Thrones” series was filmed. Five actors are joining the cast, including Finn Bennett (“True Detective: Night Country”), Bertie Carvel (“The Crown”), Tanzyn […]
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Shinfield Studios was given planning permission in 2021, and has opened in phases over the past two years. Disney were one of the first to become a client, and it was home to the recently released Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. It is located to the east of Reading, about an hour west of downtownLondon. After completion, Shinfield […]
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Ryan Gosling’s upcoming sci-fi movie Project Hail Mary has begun filming, with co-director Christopher Miller posting a behind-the-scenes image of production starting in the UK. Based on a novel by Andy Weir (The Martian), the movie stars Gosling as Ryland Grace, an amnesiac astronaut in the deep reaches of space trying to find a way to save […]
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Film crews have begun descending on Cleveland for the latest portion of filming for James Gunn’s Superman, and Stagerunner has obtained exclusive images of one of its most iconic locations. The photos show Cleveland’s Leader Building being turned into the Daily Planet, the newspaper that employs Clark Kent and Lois Lane. It’s still under construction, but […]
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Along the northeastern edge of the Amazon MGM Studios lot in Culver City, California, there’s a door that will transport you anywhere in the universe—from a sun-drenched arena filled with 80,000 cheering Romans to the frosty twilight of a tranquil boreal forest to fantastic worlds at the farthest reaches of the imagination. The portal—tall enough […]
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Seth MacFarlane’s beloved talking teddy bear is already gearing up to come back to the screen in an exciting Ted season 2 production update. The Peacock show serves as a prequel to MacFarlane’s movies of the same name, exploring the teenage years of John Bennett and the titular bear, as well as his family life with his […]
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For East End Capital, it’s “lights, camera, action” across Los Angeles, with $130 million in new construction financing to build a 250,000-square-foot film studio near Downtown. East End Studios, a unit of the New York-based investor, landed the loans to build the East End Studios Mission Campus at 2233-2241 Jesse Street, in Boyle Heights, the […]
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Move over, Paramount Pictures. Starbucks is coming to Hollywood. The coffee chain just announced that it’s throwing its mug into the filmmaking business. It’s officially launching its own production company, Starbucks Studios. According to a statement on the brand’s website, the coffee giant has always been a proponent of storytelling. Christy Cain, vice president of brand […]
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