Governors-at-large, like their branch-elected counterparts, may serve up to two three-year terms — either consecutively or non-consecutively — followed by a two-year hiatus. After the hiatus, they may serve up to two additional terms, with a lifetime cap of 12 years. The Board of Governors is responsible for setting the Academy’s strategic vision, maintaining its financial stability and ensuring the fulfillment of its mission to support excellence in the motion picture arts

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This year’s five titles represent a wide spectrum of voices, from emerging talents to seasoned auteurs, from independent studios to international collaborations. Whether through deeply personal stories, daring stylistic choices or genre-defying narratives, this year’s selection underscores why animation continues to be one of cinema’s most exciting mediums

The 2025 feature film lineup includes Rose Byrne, Demi Lovato and Octavia Spencer starring in “Tow,” “The Best You Can” with Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, “Rosemead” starring Lucy Liu, “Dragonfly” with Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn and “Everything’s Going to Be Great” starring Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney. Additional films include “A Tree Fell in the Woods” with Alexandra Daddario, Daveed Diggs and Josh Gad, “Deep Cover” starring Orlando Bloom and Bryce Dallas

After a terrible start to 2025, “A Minecraft Movie” has been a huge boon for the country’s movie theater operators. Two weekends ago, box office revenues were nearly 11% behind last year and 40% behind 2019, according to Comscore. Now the gap has shrunk to 0.5% ahead of 2024, though still 31% behind 2019. Hollywood is looking at upcoming releases like Ryan Coogler’s R-rated “Sinners,” Marvel’s “Thunderbolts,” Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” and Disney

Three of the writers — Edward John Drake, Roma Roth and Julie Bush — are accused of performing forbidden “writing services” in violation of union solidarity. A fourth member, Tim Doyle, is accused of making an off-color joke in a Facebook group of fellow writers. The WGA West board voted to expel Drake and Roth, the severest form of punishment for guild rule violations. Bush was given a temporary suspension and a lifetime ban on serving as a strike captain, while Doyle was gi

Malone backed Zaslav, the Warner Bros. Discovery CEO, in his bold 2021 move to merge Discovery with WarnerMedia. Malone was a major stakeholder in the cable company, which maneuvered to join forces with the far-larger WarnerMedia after AT&T sought to disentangle itself from Hollywood following its short ownership of the film and television studio.

These windowing guidelines are intertwined with France’s application of the E.U.’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS), which sets local content quotas for streamers across Europe starting 2022. Back then, Netflix was the only streamer to sign a three-year agreement to invest 20% of its revenues in France on local content. As such, the streamer gained an access to films 15 months after their theatrical release rather than the 36-month wait that applied previously.

For the second time in six years — and only the fourth in its 78-year history — the movie that cinched the Palme d’Or at Cannes went on to win best picture at the Oscars. When it happened to “Parasite,” it was easy to look on that as a fluke. Not since “No Country for Old Men” (another film launched at Cannes) had a genre film earned the Academy’s top prize. And of course, no South Korean movie had ever won (or even so much as been nominated) for best picture before. But the

AnimAID, a fundraising campaign launched to support members of the animation community that were impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires, is kicking off an online auction with Sotheby’s featuring rare and one-of-a-kind pieces of animation history. This includes original drawings, paintings, animation cels and maquette figures tied to animated films and series, including “Snow White,” “The Simpsons,” “Inside Out,” “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” “The Wild Robot” and “Beauty

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Janet Yang said the media and entertainment community needs to preserve “human authorship” as AI use evolves in Hollywood, Monday during a session at the NAB Show. “We need the human behind the AI,” she said. “I feel cautiously optimistic that we will find a path for what will be a big part of our lives.” In attendance at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas for the first time, Yang participated in

Paris-headquartered Technicolor had reorganized several times in recent years and closed abruptly in February amid financial difficulties. At that time it was the parent company of VFX giant MPC, commercial VFX and design studio The Mill, Mikros Animation and Technicolor Gaming. The team from The Mill includes its former executive creative director Patrick Coleman, who joined The Heist in the same role, along with what he says is the majority of his Mill North American des

Otto Turton, chief commercial officer at Vue Cinemas. “If you think about what AI is great at, it’s digesting the density of data and finding patterns of data that it’s beyond what any human can look at in their lifetime. … But then the human [can add to this by] looking at trends and culture.”

The state’s struggling entertainment workforce, which employs 618,000 individuals across several different professions, contributes $115 billion annually to the area’s economy

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