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Longtime prop house owner Marc Meyer, widely considered a pioneer of the fake book, is fighting to save his 'life's work,' Faux Library.

Patty Jenkins' "Monster" is one of the most successful serial killer biopics ever. On its anniversary, Chad Collins explores why.

While Hollywood celebrates the end of strikes by writers and actors, the multibillion-dollar economic toll on everyone from crew members to caterers will take months to tally. Striking writers and actors slashed spending, burned through savings and piled up debt to survive. Preliminary estimates place the economic cost at more than $6 billion in lost wages and business impacts across California and other production-heavy states such as Georgia and New Mexico, as most scripted film and television production ground to a halt.

Before the dual strikes this year, Faux Library Studio Props in North Hollywood would typically fill up to 20 trucks a day that were picking up props for big…

Prop houses, equipment manufacturers, and caterers can't get unemployment, have no government assistance, and are incurring enormous debt because of the work stoppage.