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In a potential windfall for New York’s film industry, Lionsgate Studios is now open for...

Two Hollywood Movie Studios Break Ground in New York When you think about big-budget, blockbuster movies you obviously think about the bright lights and big city of Hollywood, but more and more movie studios are thinking about New York...and not just New York City. The Capital Region has seen its share of movies and tv shows shot here. Everything from Angelina Jolies  Salt to Marvels  The Punisher, to John Krasinskis  A Quiet Place has been filmed in New York. It looks like Hollywood is...

The film financing company behind the BBC’s Small Axe series will give investors the chance to tune into the streaming boom by floating a £200 million trust.Great Point Media, based in London and

‘The Mauritanian’: Film Review David Rooney The Mauritanian, based on the best-selling memoir Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who spent 14 years incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base in Cuba without ever being charged with a crime. Macdonald is an exceptional documentary maker ( Touching the Void) with a more uneven track record in narrative features ( The Last King of Scotland is probably strongest among them), and this legal procedural remains strangely flat, des...

A politically charged legal thriller with only an intermittent pulse. TWITTER 2/19/2021 Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch star as lawyers on opposing sides of a habeas corpus case in Kevin Macdonalds drama based on the memoir of a longtime Guantánamo Bay detainee, played by Tahar Rahim. Kevin Macdonald has sensational nonfiction material in The Mauritanian, based on the best-selling memoir Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who spent 14 years incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base i...

Matt Fleckenstein has a big dream for Buffalo. The Grand Island native and veteran Hollywood writer and producer unveiled plans in late October to create a new film studio on the banks of the Buffalo River, on part of a 27-acre site purchased from John W. Danforth Co. He has called his $72 million proposal for Buffalo Studios the "first true Hollywood movie lot" in Buffalo, and the only one in North America with direct access to a river. With 11 buildings and as much as 250,000 square feet of s...

‘Zappa’ Zappa from Great Point Media. The film about the life of late maverick musician Frank Zappa will receive a theatrical release across Europe from March 2021, excluding the UK, Ireland, German-speaking territories and Poland, where deals have yet to be closed. The documentary includes access to the Zappa family and archival footage, exploring the private life of the musician who died in 1993, and includes appearances by his widow Gail Zappa and several musical collaborators. Winter i...