Author Archives: Karen

Niels Juul hopes to raise up to $10m and says he wants to ‘democratise’ antiquated funding system. The executive producer behind blockbusters including Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is to make Hollywood’s first feature film funded entirely by non-fungible tokens (NFTs), with a promise that those who invest will get a share of any profits and […]

“Producers have come through the first three COVID waves and know what to do to keep things moving,” one veteran producer notes, pointing to safety protocols implemented at the start of the pandemic that, for the most part, have allowed studios and independents to keep making movies even through this fall’s surge of infections caused […]

Heather Hemmens says her off-the-grid childhood helped her get the roles she has now, in Hallmark Channel’s ‘Christmas in My Heart’ and on the CW Network series ‘Roswell, New Mexico. Lots of people can recite lines from their favorite holiday special or movie that they watched on TV every year growing up. That’s not the case […]

Disney says it will spend $8B more on content in 2022 than 2021, mostly on shows and movies for its streaming platforms. The Walt Disney Co. is planning to turbocharge its content spending in its fiscal 2022 calendar year, which began Oct. 1. According to the company’s annual report, which was filed with the SEC […]

The workplace equity nonprofit is letting go of all but three of its 25 staffers at year’s end, a move that one critic of the organization calls “callous.” Time’s Up has completed its reform effort’s first phase concluding that muddled origins, as well as the unanticipated events of 2020, contributed to the dysfunctional dynamics and communication […]