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Bringing old Mexico to life: The craftsmanship of Telemundo’s El Conde: Amor y Honor

By Reel 360 Jun 13, 2024

Telemundo's highly anticipated drama El Conde: Amor y Honor promises to transport audiences into the enthralling world of old Mexico, and the meticulous work of the set designe...

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Leslye Headland explores the Dark Side in The Acolyte on Disney+

By The Geek Jun 4, 2024

Leslye Headland had a clear vision for her new Star Wars series, The Acolyte: delve into the story of the Sith, the iconic antagonists of the Star Wars universe. Premiering Tue...

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Which Gatorade Commercials are the GOATS?

By Colin Francis Costello May 17, 2024

Yesterday, the Indiana Fever's Caitlin Clark made her highly anticipated debut on the newly designed floor at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. While it was a loss and Clark only scored 9...

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The Craft: Behind the Kid ‘n Play Progressive spot

By Colin Costello Feb 26, 2024

Since its premiere in late November, Progressive Insurance’s “Replay” featuring Kid ‘n Play, the iconic 90s hip-hop duo, has had a chokehold on consumers...

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Summer strikes depress Los Angeles film production activity

By Reel 360 Oct 18, 2023

FilmLA, the partner film office for the City and County of Los Angeles and other local jurisdictions, has released a report detailing the significant impact of work actions by...

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INTERVIEW: Playwright & filmmaker Caytha Jentis

By Colin Costello Aug 17, 2023

Sugar Daddies, porn stars and a divorced Brooklyn Mom take center stage in the new comedy Sex Work/Sex Play, from award-winning playwright and filmmaker Caytha Jentis. Se...

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Location, Location, Location: Indiana Jones on a global adventure

By Reel 360 Aug 3, 2023

Lucasfilm's Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which is now playing in theaters, continued the franchise's tradition of globetrotting adventures by filming on location in ...

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Barbie fun facts

By The Geek Jul 20, 2023

To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken. Barbie, the highly anticipated film from G...

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LA Film production plummets to pandemic numbers

By Reel 360 Jul 20, 2023

We've been here and before and didn't like it then either. The film production industry in the Greater Los Angeles area experienced a significant decline in the second quarter...

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Tom Cruise takes us behind the scenes of blowing up a train

By The Geek Jul 7, 2023

Tom Cruise is arguably the last great movie star standing. It's not so much his maturity as an actor (he has gotten immensely better with age) or the incredible death-defying ...

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Liz Feldman says darkness inspired Dead to Me

By Aymara Limma Nov 23, 2022

Netflix has just released the third and final season of its award-winning series, Dead to Me and after streaming all of the episodes, I am already missing the quirky series ab...

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John Williams on scoring The Fabelmans

By Reel 360 Nov 10, 2022

For Steven Spielberg and five-time Academy-Award winner, John Williams, The Fabelmans is their 28th film together, and their last collaboration as director and composer. In...

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Los Angeles production down 10.5% in Q3

By Reel 360 Oct 19, 2022

FilmLA today issued an update regarding regional filming activity in Los Angeles and Los Angeles County. The film office partner reported a total of 9,066 Shoot Days (SD) in...

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How Michael Giacchino composed and directed Marvel’s Werewolf by Night

By Reel 360 Oct 9, 2022

Marvel Studios’ chilling Special Presentation Werewolf by Night is now streaming exclusively on Disney+, inviting fans to explore a new corner of the Marvel Cinematic Unive...

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Thor: Love and Thunder adopts new technology

By Reel 360 Jul 8, 2022

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is renowned for its unique creatures and environments, but they are rarely fully realized until post-production. This, in turn, requires the...

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DP Vittorio Zorini on the explosion of colors with ARRI equipment

By Reel 360 Jun 14, 2022

Produced by Amazon Studios, Italian series Bang Bang Baby tells the story of a teenage girl who discovers the truth about her criminal father and becomes fascinated by evil. In...

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Behind the sounds of Spider-Man: No Way Home

By Reel 360 Feb 4, 2022

In Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man: No Way Home, now screening exclusively in movie theaters, for the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood...

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A look at Disney, Marvel and 20th Century Oscar hopefuls

By Megan Penn Jan 28, 2022

We're a few weeks out from the Oscar nominations, but we are getting other nominations from the, DGA, PGA, AGD and WGA which are giving us clues as to what may be nominated fo...

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Historic all-women committee to lead The Visual Effects Society

By Reel 360 Jan 25, 2022

The Visual Effects Society (VES) has elected its 2022 board of directors officers. Lisa Cooke was re-elected board chair, and is the first woman to hold this role since VES’...

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SAG Awards: Snubs and Surprises

By Reel 360 Jan 14, 2022

The SAG Award nominations are in, and many are furious at the number of snubs this time around. The SAG awards are different from other award shows because what determines a...