Vancouver movie producer Bill Vince has died of cancer at the age of 44.
Vince was nominated for an Academy Award in 2007 for producing Capote, a biography of American writer Truman Capote that saw Phillip Seymour Hoffman win an Oscar for best actor.
In a statement, Hoffman said Vince wore his heart on his sleeve, was […]

It was a pretty typical two weeks for the television producer Thom Beers:
He spent several days in May on a crab boat in the bitterly cold Bering Sea, followed by a trip with big-rig trucks past the Arctic Circle all the way to Deadhorse, Alaska, where the snow was piled seven feet deep; and then, […]

Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild publicly declared war on another union during a rally this week, increasing the likelihood of new labor strife in a the U.S. entertainment industry, which is still recovering from a writers’ strike that ended four months ago.
Standing outside the headquarters of the guild on Wilshire Boulevard, Alan Rosenberg, president of […]

We had the pleasure of sitting down with Jack Black and producer Melissa Cobb to discuss Kung Fu Panda! Enthusiastic, big and a little clumsy, Po (Black) is the biggest fan of kung fu around…which doesn’t exactly come in handy while working every day in his family’s noodle shop. When he’s unexpectedly chosen to fulfill an […]

 
You would think Jeffrey Katzenberg had to be one of those kids with movie posters plastering his bedroom walls - images of “Pinocchio,” “Peter Pan,” “Dumbo,” all of his favourite animated fantasies.
How could the studio executive who oversaw the resurrection of one animated kingdom at Disney and created another at DreamWorks be anything but a […]

 
Bill Clinton, it turns out, doesn’t have a lock on being the comeback kid. Let me offer up Brad Grey, the Paramount Pictures chairman vilified last year as the movie studio exec who chased away Steven Spielberg. That’s still a major league problem for Grey, who will probably see Spielberg shuttle off to another studio […]

 
There’s a little known trade secret among entertainment writers that whenever a new movie opens, you always try to interview the actors first, and if that fails, you at least try to talk to the directors. Because of this, screenwriters and producers tend to get a raw deal when they attend their movie junkets even […]

If Stan Lee is the father of the modern comic book superhero, then Avi Arad is the godfather of the modern superhero movie - at least those that were adapted from Mr. Lee’s creations for Marvel Comics.
Before Mr. Arad became involved in bringing Marvel characters to the big screen, comic nerds of my generation […]

 
To hear him talk, you’d think George Lucas would have preferred to call his movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Don’t Get Your Hopes Up.
Lucas, who co-wrote and produced the May 22 film, can sound downright sullen when it comes to his expectations of fan reaction to the year’s most highly […]

 
Who says no one takes risks in Hollywood anymore?
Until late last week, Mary Parent had one of the great jobs in the movie business. After helping preside over a string of hits as a top executive at Universal Pictures, Parent left the studio two years ago to produce films with Scott Stuber, a longtime friend […]