RKO is often viewed as the forgotten child of Hollywood, despite being the studio behind some of this industry’s most celebrated films like “Citizen Kane,” “King Kong” and “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” while employing Golden Era luminaries Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Its status in the dustbin of Hollywood history…
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The soundstage at 1011 N. Fuller Ave. in West Hollywood is shutting down. Quixote Studios told clients in a memo Monday it is winding down its commercial facility there, a longtime hub for commercial and music video shoots. The Hollywood Reporter said it was part of a broader pullback by parent company Hudson Pacific Properties,…
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I have been writing movies for a long time and, to paraphrase Paul Mazursky, this awful business has been pretty good to me. My first Hollywood writing job was in 1990, and I have been fortunate enough to earn my living at the keyboard ever since. My first major studio film hit theaters in 1997…
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Cinespia is celebrating its 25th anniversary of cemetery screenings with three classic movies. The outdoor movie series will screen “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Moulin Rouge” and “Mulholland Drive” to kick off the summer season on Memorial Day Weekend. The Steven Spielberg-directed movie “E.T.,” starring a young Drew Barrymore and Henry Thomas, will kick things off on…
Mariska Hargitay, one of TV’s most beloved stars (she’s played Olivia Benson on NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for 27 seasons, longer than anyone else has played a single character on an American primetime live-action show) and one of film’s most exciting new directors (her debut documentary My Mom Jayne won Critics Choice…
A major Hollywood infrastructure player is scaling back sharply, cutting jobs and shutting down key parts of its studio services business. The move is underscoring continued strain across the production economy centered in Los Angeles and California. Hudson Pacific Properties is winding down most of its Quixote soundstage operations in LA while also exiting operations…