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Winsome Sinclair, a veteran casting professional who worked on scores of films and TV shows — many as casting director — including Malcolm D. Lee’s The Best Man, Steven Spielberg’s Amistad, the Gabrielle Union series Being Mary Jane and a dozen Spike Lee movies, died August 12 of colon cancer on Long…

For a competition series like The Traitors, it’s important for cinematographers Siggi Rosen-Rawlings and Matt Wright to keep the players as immersed in the game as possible. While the players compete in a series of challenges and conspire with each other to root out the traitors, the pair is hard at work…

The first winners of the 76th Emmy Awards were revealed today as the Television Academy unveiled its honorees in the juried categories spanning animation, costume, innovation in emerging media programming and motion design. Netflix toon series Blue Eye Samurai was the lone multiple honoree, and it…

UPDATED with latest: The Oscars, strike-delayed Writers Guild Awards and the 2023-24 awards season are history, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like ahead as we cruise into Emmy season and look ahead to Cannes, the fall film…

Production designer Ben Norman has been working as a designer of reality show challenges for a few years, though never on a competition quite on the scale of Squid Game: The Challenge. To be fair, there hasn’t really been a reality competition on the scale of the Netflix series before, which brings…

"The zen garden is the type of garden that's providing people more freedom in a sense of point of view, because it's meant to be viewed from a certain distance, and from whichever angles you are seeing objects in the garden, it provides a relativity between those rocks or the landscape and how you see…

Leonard Engelman, who lobbied the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to install a makeup branch and served as its first governor when they did so, died Thursday at 88 in Northridge Hospital Medical Center. His death was confirmed by the Cinema Makeup School in Los Angeles, but no cause has…

The original Deadpool film presented its fair share of challenges for Ryan Reynolds. Not the least of which was having his co-writers on set. “No part of me was thinking when Deadpool was finally greenlit that this would be a success,” the actor told The New York Times. “I even let go of getting…

EXCLUSIVE: The clock is winding down on the Teamsters’ scheduled bargaining days with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. By the end of the week, the union hopes to have agreed to a tentative new three-year contract, but there’s still a large bridge to gap between the two parties…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s been nearly two weeks since IATSE reached a tentative agreement with the studios on a new film and TV contract, and the union is now ready to reveal the full contract to its members. The complete memorandum of agreements between IATSE and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television…

The Location Managers Guild International is out with the nominations for its 11th LMGI Awards, which honor the outstanding and creative visual contributions by location professionals in film, TV and commercials worldwide. See the list below. The LMGI Awards will be handed Saturday, August 24, at The&nbsp…

Bud S. Smith, an Oscar-nominated film editor, died last Sunday at his home in Studio City, C, from respiratory failure after a prolonged illness. He was 88. Smith’s death was confirmed by his wife, dialogue editor Lucy Coldsnow-Smith. Related Stories …