Industry & Labor

Long drawn to filmmaking as an artistic medium cultivating "a radical form of empathy," cinematographer Jomo Fray took that concept in an immersive new direction with "Nickel Boys," the first narrative feature from Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker RaMell Ross.

Crawley details the fast-paced shooting schedule (34 days!) of Brady Corbet's epic and reveals the scene that really thwarted him.

"In 'Wicked,' the light is actually the darkness and the darkness is actually the light," says cinematographer Alice Brooks in a new "Wicked" featurette. "All through movie one, the pink sun rises for Glinda, and the sun is always setting for Elphaba."

The indie cinema icon, collaborating with Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín for the second time, breaks down how he entered into the mind of Anglelina Jolie's Maria Callas with exquisitely painterly images in various styles and formats.

Cinematographer now turned director Rachel Morrison knows a thing to two about managing an impressive feat and breaking boundaries as a woman. In 2018, Morrison, best known for her work on Fruitvale Station and Black Panther, became the first female cinematographer ever nominated for an Academy Award. Reflecting on garnering her nomination for Netflix's Mudbound, she acknowledges the hoops women in the industry have to go through.

"Gladiator II" picks up 16 years after the first film ends. When director Ridley Scott was conceiving the original, the approach was, "Build the sets, fight real tigers, shoot real arrows," says cinematographer John Mathieson. This time around, things had moved forward and the Colosseum was at its height. But also there had been huge improvements in technology, and processes were now faster, easier and 3D printing technology had since evolved.

TheAnimation Guild(IATSE Local 839) and AMPTP have reached a tentative deal for a new three-year contact.

PETALUMA, CA —23 Workers at 2K's Motion Capture (MoCap) Studio in Petaluma, California, have voted to unionize with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), Friday. The election, supervised by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), marks the first successful unionization effort at a motion capture studio in the video game industry's history. The final vote count was 15 in favor (71%), with 6 against.

Unionized workers at the nonfiction production company behind PBS'Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.have greenlit a first union contract with their employer.

Jason Reitman's "Saturday Night" opens with a roughly 3 1⁄2-minute single shot in which the camera quickly weaves through Studio 8H, capturing the chaos and energy as the now-iconic NBC series "Saturday Night Live" prepared to go "live from New York" for the Oct. 11, 1975,premiere.

As November 5 draws closer, labor unions are blanketing swing states with tens of thousands of canvassers, deploying far more resources than in past elections in a bid to get the labor-friendly ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz elected.

Hollywood, California– Governor Gavin Newsom today announced a proposal to expand California's Film & Television Tax Credit Program to$750 million annually, a massive increase from the current $330 million annual allocation. This ambitious expansion would position California as the top state for capped film incentive programs, surpassing other states like New York.