Streaming has overtaken linear TV in pretty much every conceivable way but one. And even that last one is dangling from the precipice. Total revenues from streaming — now advertising revenue! — will overtake the revenues from pay TV subscriptions in the U.S. for the first time in the third quarter of 2024, according to Ampere Analysis. The two are …
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Christine Vachon doesn’t mess around. She is a film professor, best-selling film book author, a wife, a mother of a college kid, and most of all, a producer of independent films. They’re often directed by her close friend and fellow Brown alumnus Todd Haynes. She launched her career at Sundance 1991 with her first feature film, Haynes’ “Poison,” which won …
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SAG-AFTRA is making sure consent over the filming of intimate scenes extends even after the actors leave the set. The Guild issued new Standards and Protocols guidelines for intimacy coordinators when discussing their on-set work with actors. Intimacy coordinators must now seek the permission of an actor to publicly share details of their intimate scenes. Failure to do so could …
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More bad news for broadcast and cable TV. Pay-TV households in the U.S. and Canada will fall below 60 million in 2029, a new study by Digital TV Research has found. If analyst Simon Murray is correct, the U.S. alone will barely be on the right side of 50 million pay-TV subs at the end of the 2020s. It is …
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It’ll take more than a spoonful of sugar for the “discriminatory language” of 1964’s “Mary Poppins” to be overlooked by the UK’s movie-rating system. The classic film, which stars Julie Andrews as the titular nanny, has officially been reclassified from a “U” (universal) rating to “PG” (parental guidance) by the British Board of Film Classification. BBC first reported the rating …
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Josh Hartnett‘s role as Ernest Lawrence in “Oppenheimer” earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award when the film took the night’s top prize of Ensemble in a Motion Picture. But the actor is already looking ahead to his next role in M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming thriller “Trap,” which could afford him the opportunity to showcase a very different set of …
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This year’s Film Independent Spirit Awards stayed ahead of the Oscar curve once more, announcing their winners on Sunday, February 25 in the usual chilly white tent on the Santa Monica beach (and on YouTube). With Oscar voting not over until the evening of February 27, the winners at the 39th Spirits could gain valuable Oscar momentum. Host Aidy Bryant played to …
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In the weeks leading up to Shane Gillis‘ “Saturday Night Live” hosting debut, one major question dominated conversations about his controversial appearance: Would he address his firing from the show? Gillis was briefly hired as a member of the “SNL” ensemble cast in 2019, but was removed from the show before appearing in a single episode once old clips of …
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Ottessa Moshfegh may have been channeling Hitchcock for her screenplay for William Oldroyd’s “Eileen,” but star Marin Ireland turned to a much different filmmaker for creative inspiration on the 1960s-set noir. The film was co-written by Luke Goebel. Ireland, nominated for Best Supporting Performance for “Eileen” opposite Anne Hathaway, who was also nominated, came by IndieWire’s spot at the 2024 …
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The 2024 Producers Guild of America Awards are taking awards season one step closer to the Oscars. The annual PGA Awards happen February 25, immediately following the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards. The awards-heavy weekend festivities also included the 2024 SAG Awards on February 24. The nominees mirror the Academy Awards’ frontrunners list, with “American Fiction,” “Anatomy of a Fall,” …
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