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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 Jolie's  Salt to Marvel's  The Punisher, to John Krasinski's  A Quiet Place has been filmed in New York. It looks like Hollywood is making a huge investment in making more movies in the Empire State with two large film productio...

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, despite its star power and a gripping central performance from Tahar Rahim as Slahi. An unimpeachably w...

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 Macdonald's 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 in Cuba without ever being charged with a crime. Macdonald is an exceptional documentary maker ( Tou...