Industry & Labor

Gabriel Beristain was named the cinematographer of Marvel Cinematic Universe’s “Black Widow,” a film that is projected to be the most anticipated movie of the summer of 2021.

IndieWire reached out to the directors of photography whose feature films are premiering at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival to find out which cameras and lenses they used and, more importantly, why these were the right tools to create the look and visual language of these highly anticipated films.

Roger Deakins, the revered British cinematographer with 15 Academy Award nominations and two wins, announced via Instagram that he will soon release his first book of still photographs. Byways will be available in the U.K. in August and in the United States this coming fall.

IATSE and management’s AMPTP have agreed to push back next week’s scheduled resumption of bargaining for a new film and TV contract until mid-August to allow time for the producers and Hollywood’s unions to work out a new agreement on modifications to the industry’s Covid-19 return-to-work protocols.

The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees is taking the fight against the Metropolitan Opera lockout online with a virtual picket line.

In the 1960s, the United Farm Workers began demanding better pay and working conditions for California’s agricultural workers, who were subject to egregious exploitation and abuse.

A mere few minutes into Disney+’s Marvel Cinematic Universe series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and you instantly realize things look different. The visuals are vast, widescreen, and cinematic-level accomplishments.

Employees at MSNBC, the 24-hour cable news channel with a slate of prominent liberal anchors, said on Thursday that they planned to form a union representing about 315 workers including producers, bookers, writers and fact checkers.

Enjoy post-apocalyptic survival films such as Bird Box and A Quiet Place? This week, New Era Entertainment (A new arm of Devilworks) released their own title in the subgenre you might like, F.E.A.R. (Forget Everything And Run).

EXCLUSIVE: Leaders of IATSE’s 13 production locals in Hollywood are showing a united front in their negotiations for a new film and TV contract with management’s Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers.

Twenty years ago, while still students at the University of Southern California, cinematographer Alice Brooks and director Jon M. Chu worked on his thesis short film, “When the Kids Are Away,” a musical honoring motherhood that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2003.

Featuring activists and actors, a news anchor and a rapper, The Hollywood Reporter celebrates Pride with a focus on those who pushed progress (and boundaries) by booking jobs previously reserved for cis performers, simply being themselves or, in one case, sliding down a stripper pole into Satan's lap.