IATSE & Producers Postpone Contract Talks Until August
02 Jul 2021IATSE and management’s AMPTP have agreed to push back next week’s scheduled resumption of bargaining for a new film and TV contract until mid-August to allow time for the producers and Hollywood’s unions to work out a new agreement on modifications to the industry’s Covid-19 return-to-work protocols.
To Promote and Serve
01 Jul 2021In any given month, the topic could be inclusion or safety on sets, high-flying drones or new frontiers in digital filmmaking.
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Ten Targeting 9,000: 600’s Committee of Fun
23 Jun 2021As anyone who has ever tried to lose weight will tell you, being active isn’t easy. And staying engaged? Pandemic or no pandemic, that can be a steep hill to climb as well.
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The Supreme Court’s Latest Union-Busting Decision Goes Far Beyond California Farmworkers
23 Jun 2021In the 1960s, the United Farm Workers began demanding better pay and working conditions for California’s agricultural workers, who were subject to egregious exploitation and abuse. -
IATSE Members Protest Metropolitan Opera in Virtual Picket Line
23 Jun 2021The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees is taking the fight against the Metropolitan Opera lockout online with a virtual picket line. -
Cinematographer PJ Dillon on Lensing Cinematic Visuals for ‘Falcon’
21 Jun 2021A mere few minutes into Disney+’s Marvel Cinematic Universe series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and you instantly realize things look different. The visuals are vast, widescreen, and cinematic-level accomplishments. -
F.E.A.R. Cinematographer Jimmy Matlosz
17 Jun 2021Enjoy post-apocalyptic survival films such as Bird Box and A Quiet Place? This week, New Era Entertainment (A new arm of Devilworks) released their own title in the subgenre you might like, F.E.A.R. (Forget Everything And Run). -
MSNBC Employees are Forming a Union
17 Jun 2021Employees at MSNBC, the 24-hour cable news channel with a slate of prominent liberal anchors, said on Thursday that they planned to form a union representing about 315 workers including producers, bookers, writers and fact checkers. -
IATSE Leaders “Committed To Fighting” For “More Humane & Equitable Workplace” In Contract Talks With
16 Jun 2021EXCLUSIVE: Leaders of IATSE’s 13 production locals in Hollywood are showing a united front in their negotiations for a new film and TV contract with management’s Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. -
Pride 2021: Hollywood’s 10 LGBTQ Changemakers
11 Jun 2021Featuring activists and actors, a news anchor and a rapper, The Hollywood Reporter celebrates Pride with a focus on those who pushed progress (and boundaries) by booking jobs previously reserved for cis performers, simply being themselves or, in one case, sliding down a stripper pole into Satan's lap. -
DP Alice Brooks on Capturing a Musical
11 Jun 2021Twenty years ago, while still students at the University of Southern California, cinematographer Alice Brooks and director Jon M. Chu worked on his thesis short film, “When the Kids Are Away,” a musical honoring motherhood that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2003. -
‘Fargo’ DP on That Striking Black and White Episode
10 Jun 2021The FX limited series Fargo is well-known for surprising viewers with poignant, striking diversions within the main narrative of a season — think Season 2’s UFO invasion or Season 3’s sojourn in L.A. for Carrie Coon’s Gloria Burgle.
