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The L.A. Screenings is celebrating its 60th year — a huge achievement for a market that was never even formally organized, but grew organically. It began in 1963, a time (…)

The success of the London Screenings, which closed on Friday, March 3, 2023 after a hectic five days at various London venues, might — in a strange twist of fate (…)

VideoAge‘s September 29, 2022 Water Cooler feature warned its international readers that a new, maniacal Winnie the Pooh was coming to theaters in a horror movie titled Winnie the Pooh: (…)

Years ago — specifically in the 1990s — U.S. TV screens were teeming with MOWs (or Movies of the Week) about one deadly disease or another, each one seemingly more (…)

On September 22, 2022, VideoAge‘s Water Cooler feature ran a piece about Paramount’s neo-Western drama series, Yellowstone, which was receiving rave reviews among politically and socially conservative American TV viewers. (…)

By Mike Reynolds

With the Directors Guild of America (DGA) announcing to its membership that negotiations on a new contract wouldn’t begin until “later this spring,” it appears that the Writers (…)

Canadians, tired of being blamed for bringing cold weather to the U.S., built a series of Hollywood billboards that use cheeky messages to celebrate Canadian filmmakers. A series of billboards (…)

Lately there has been constant whining from industry insiders about the fact that digital media, as a revenue mode, is suffering. According to several research companies, digital ad spending growth (…)

A good number of the major U.K. and European distributors, as well as a good sprinkling of U.S. studios, will be screening their wares in London between February 27 and (…)

In North America in 2022, 71 widely released movies generated $7.35 billion. This can be compared to the $11 billion generated in pre-pandemic 2019, which saw 110 movies be widely (…)