from: Ted Johnson, Variety.com — The Walt Disney Co.’s plans to transform a slice of its bucolic ranch near Santa Clarita into a 21st century production center gained a key approval on Wednesday, as the Los Angeles County regional planning commission gave unanimous approval to the project, with some estimates that it will cost in the hundreds of millions of...
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from: Stuart Kemp, Hollywood Reporter — A U.K. court has ruled that Richard Driscoll is guilty of fraud over false tax claims made for movies including “Eldorado,” starring Daryl Hannah, David Carradine and Michael Madsen. LONDON – U.K. director-writer-producer Richard Driscoll has been found guilty of a $2.3 million (£1.5 million) tax fraud in a...
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from: Paul Bond, Hollywood Reporter — The company says it can use search data to project a film’s opening weekend revenue with 94 percent accuracy. Google appears to be getting into the business of predicting the box-office performance of movies as much as four weeks ahead of their release dates. In a blog post on Thursday from Andrea Chen, Google’s...
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from: Steve Pond, The Wrap — The festival takes place in the movie industry’s backyard, but LAFF had to work to get the studios interested in their summer showcase Hollywood is finally embracing the Los Angeles Film Festival. Studios once reluctant to showcase top films at LAFF, which officially opens on Thursday night in downtown L.A. after a pre-festival...
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from: FilmLA eNews — The 24th Annual Los Angeles River Clean-up was held on Saturday, May 18 and FilmL.A. was there to lend a few helping hands! FilmL.A. staffers and their guests, 16 in total, gathered at Marsh Park to pick up trash and debris collected on the river bank since last year’s efforts. Dressed in heather grey, v-neck tees proclaiming “FilmL.A....
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from: Ray Richmond, Deadline.com — A group of cable network execs and producers shared their views on the ever-evolving reality TV landscape and how the sales game is changed this afternoon during a Produced By panel sponsored by Deadline Hollywood and entitled, “Reality Isn’t What it Used to Be: Selling Nonfiction Television.” “You used to be able to sell...
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