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Twenty-three Academy Award-nominated films, and 7 out of the 10 best picture nominees were screened or featured at the 2024 SCAD Savannah Film Festival. In addition, 26 of the film festival’s honorees, panelists, and guests subsequently received Oscar nominations.
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In the fourth quarter of 2024, the company saw strong overall growth with a 21% increase in total revenue, driven largely by a rise in political advertising. While core advertising and retransmission consent revenues were down slightly, the boost in political ad revenue helped turn a previous net loss into a profit.
Jonathan Harb, founder of Whiskytree a leading visual effects company, highlights the benefits of Georgia’s incentive program and advocates for a stand-alone post-production incentive to further strengthen the industry.
Georgia Film Day is now part of Georgia Film Week: from March 17 – 21, events will focus on successful aspects of the state’s entertainment industry.
2025 has clicked past $1.08 billion (in fact it did last weekend), +11% over the same Jan. 1-March 2 frame a year ago, but this weekend is now coming in at $53.3M per Comscore, which would make it the lowest frame of the year to date, under Super Bowl
Adapting true crime stories into compelling limited series can capture massive audiences, particularly when the fiction stays rooted in reality. But when a show profits from someone’s real-life story, do the creators have an obligation to give back to the individuals and communities behind those narratives?
Spiegelman, a renowned artist with the New Yorker, TOPPS, and many 1960’s underground comics, is the only graphic novelist to receive the Pulitzer Prize. His work, MAUS: A SUVIVOR’S TALE, retells his father’s time as a Jewish prisoner during the Holocaust with the characters depicted as animals, particularly mice, cats and dogs.
“Bob Trevino Likes It” is a 2024 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Tracie Laymon, featuring performances by French Stewart, Barbie Ferreira and John Leguizamo.
IATSE’s annual roadmap outlines the union’s federal policy goals for the current Congressional term.