Journals By Industry - Movie & Video Industries

Byline: Tom Sharpe If the two-story structure going up near the Old Main prison south of Santa Fe looks familiar, that's because it's a replica of Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan. Filming...

Approved only nine months ago, the new film tax-incentive law (Law 27) has quickly turned a bright spotlight on the island's film industry, reports Caribbean Business (Dec. 22, 2011): As a result, the...

We thought It was a great Idea, at first an optical illusion. We'd put one on our cover so it would lookas if the image were moving. We didn't think it had ever...

HEADNOTE With Moonbot Studios, a children's animation star remakes the cinematic experience. And that's just his first trick. William Joyce once helped design Woody and Buzz Lightyear. But now he's taking on giants...

Byline: Robert Nott Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire is coming to New Mexico -- for at least 10 episodes, anyway. The New Mexico Film Office announced Monday that the A&E cable television network's new...

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS British Airways on Wednesday said that it has produced a wellbeing video featuring athletes hoping to represent Team GB and ParalympicsGB. Available on flights from February 2012 the...

M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS British Airways on Wednesday said that it has produced a wellbeing video featuring athletes hoping to represent Team GB and ParalympicsGB. Available on flights from February 2012 the...

KIRKLAND, Wash., Jan. 24, 2012 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Christopher Gardner, played by Will Smith in "The Pursuit of Happyness" (Columbia Pictures, 2006), was jobless and homeless with a baby boy to support. He...

Disney's adaptation showcases decent stamina, while Haywire KO's the rest of the new releases. Off the back of an impressive debut week, Steven Spielberg's War Horse reigned supreme at the top of the...

Greek acquisitions at EFM could be impacted by financial woes in the country. The Greek financial crisis has not left the local film industry unscathed. The 2011 admissions were 10.9m, registering a loss...

Ofcom has delivered a damning verdict of the blunder that led ITV1 to include video game footage in a hard-hitting documentary about the IRA. The media regulator investigated 26 complaints over footage in...

Gross box office in Australia in 2011 was $1,147.5 million (A$1,093.7m), three per cent down on the previous year, while cinema admissions were down 7.7 per cent to 85 million. Mike Selwyn, chair...

The makers of Wallace and Gromit, Peppa Pig and In the Night Garden have written to chancellor George Osborne urging him to create a "level playing field" for UK animators to compete on...

Sherlock Holmes stayed top of the international charts for the third weekend in a row through Warner Bros Pictures International as it soared past $260m. The action sequel grossed an estimated $18.1m from...

Dir: Asger Leth. US. 2012. 102mins A thriller of two halves, Man On A Ledge starts out intriguing and ends up formulaic. But with Sam Worthington leading a strong and diverse cast, the...

Dir: James Ponsoldt. US. 2012. 85mins Alcoholism is hardly a new subject for drama - it's been famously tackled in films like Days Of Wine and Roses and Leaving Las Vegas - but...

Dir: Colin Trevorrow. U.S. 2012. 85mins A classified advertisement placed by someone looking for a time traveling partner becomes the impetus for this highly entertaining low-budget comedy about trying to overcome our past...

Dirs: Richard Stanley, Buddy Giovinazzo, Tom Savini, Douglas Buck, Karim Hussain, David Gregory, Jeremy Kasten. US-France-Canada. 2012. 114mins Horror anthology The Theatre Bizarre is made up of six quirky, Grand Guignol-esque shorts from...

Public outcry over two controversial Internet piracy bills in Congress seems to have reached Washington. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released a statement this morning saying he would be postponing a vote scheduled...