Source: Screenrant.com | Rachel Labonte
August 13, 2020
Tom Holland’s next movie with his Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo, Cherry, gets a fresh tease in this new behind the scenes picture. Holland has collaborated with the Russos multiple times through the MCU, dating back to 2016’s Captain America: Civil War. However, Cherry will mark the first time they’ve worked together on a non-comic book movie. Cherry follows Holland’s PTSD-ridden Army medic who turns to robbing banks in order to cope with his opioid addiction. The film is based on Nico Walker’s autobiographical book of the same name.
SOURCE: Deadline.com | Dino-Ray Ramos
August 12, 2020
DEADLINE EXCLUSIVE:
The documentary advocacy group Brown Girls Doc Mafia (BGDM) is bolstering representation behind the camera with a robust, searchable directory featuring over 200 of its members. The directory launches today and will offer access to women and non-binary people of color in the documentary space.
The platform is a destination for discovering talented women and non-binary filmmakers and executives of color. As part of the effort, the organization is calling upon the documentary industry to make a commitment to dismantling racism and sexism throughout the industry and increased hiring of BGDM members across all roles.
SOURCE: Stoffer Mortgage Facebook LIVE | Mike Stoffer
August 12, 2020
Presented by Stoffer Mortgage and hosted by Mike Stoffer, I Didn’t Know That! is an engaging Facebook Live discussion with interesting guests sharing information that may surprise you, inform you, and cause you to say “I didn’t know that!”
Mike talks Northeast Ohio TV & film production with Evan Miller & Mike Wendt of the Greater Cleveland Film Commission, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting a thriving and adaptive local media industry. Their mission is to promote increased media production in NE Ohio using effective strategies for attraction and workforce development including building an artistic infrastructure through film. They aggressively pursue media productions and businesses that can positively impact the local economy. Learn more about GCFC at https://www.clevelandfilm.com.
Film and television production “is finally getting ready to start back up,” IATSE Grips Local 80 business manager Thom Davis said in his latest update on the industry’s efforts for a safe return to work.
“The major lots have brought back people to get the departments ready for production,” he said, “and some of the Independents and Commercials have commenced with production.”
Various film commissioners discuss permitting, precautions, restrictions, concerns
SOURCE: ShootOnline.com | A Shoot Staff Report
August 7, 2020
“Location, location, location.” This proverbial mantra for buying real estate also applies to the state of filming during a pandemic. So much depends on where you are–and whether rates of COVID-19 infections are high, have flattened or even better are on a downward curve. Public health and safety guidelines should evolve accordingly–and so too does film permitting, the nature of projects that are feasible and thus allowed.
Source: Cleveland.com | Joey Morona, cleveland.com
August 07, 2020
The cast and crew of “Judas and the Black Messiah” spent parts of three months last fall shooting the upcoming film in Cleveland and Mansfield.
Director Shaka King debuted the first trailer for the movie, about the life and assassination of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton, during a panel Thursday at the National Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists joint virtual convention.
Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield in Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) | IMDb.com
Source: Deadline.com | Dino-Ray Ramos
August 06, 2020
In the new trailer for Judas and the Black Messiah, Daniel Kaluuya, who plays the real-life iconic Black Panther revolutionary, is heard saying: “You can murder a liberator, but you can’t murder a liberation! You can murder a revolutionary, but you can’t murder a revolution! You can murder a freedom fighter but you can’t murder freedom!”
Source: Deadline.com | Jill Goldsmith
July 20, 2020
As New York City enters Phase 4 on Monday, allowing production to ramp up, the Mayor’s Office of Film and Television today issued what it called a “plain language” guide to remaining restrictions on outdoor shoots on public property: They’re now limited to 50 people (up from 25), can’t interfere with hospitals or COVID-19 testing centers, can’t block streets, and can’t be close to restaurants with outdoor seating without the eateries’ permission.
Over the last couple of months, the Hollywood studios successfully negotiated new collective bargaining agreements with the major guilds. But hammering out industrywide safety protocols for film and TV production during the coronavirus pandemic is proving hard to reach a consensus on.
It’s been five weeks since the Hollywood unions and guilds on June 12 released their White Paper of detailed safety guidelines that was to serve as a starting point and a blueprint in the negotiations with studios. After weeks of talks, progress has been made but there are still multiple outstanding issues that are proving difficult to overcome, which is further delaying the start of production even in locations where the pandemic is largely under control, like British Columbia, New Zealand, Hawaii, as well as New York, which today allowed film and TV production to resume.
Source: Deadline.com | Nellie Andreeva
July 17, 2020
DEADLINEEXCLUSIVE: Fresh from an earnings report that saw it add 10 million subscribers during the pandemic, Netflix has just set its most financially ambitious feature film so far. Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans are set to star in The Gray Man, with AGBO’s Joe & Anthony Russo directing their first blockbuster since setting the all-time global box office record with Avengers: Endgame two years ago. The intention here is to create a new franchise with a James Bond level of scale and a budget upward of $200 million.
Source: Deadline.com | Mike Fleming Jr.
July 17, 2020
