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The entertainment management and production company Gotham Group and talent management firm Principal Entertainment Los Angeles have joined forces, effective immediately and will be housed in The Gotham Group’s existing offices in Los Angeles. The announcement was made by Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, founder and CEO of The Gotham Group, and PELA partners Marsha McManus, Larry Taube and Liz Robinson. Gotham’s Lindsay Williams and Lee Stollman will help manage the relationship on the Gotham side.

Reinventing Cinema: The First Decade of Digital Cinema by Nick Dager is now available at Diesel Books. In May 1999 Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace opened with digital screenings in a handful of movie theatres in and around New York and Los Angeles: digital cinema’s first decade was underway. Now on sale for only $1.99.

Be Film The Underground Film Festival has announced dates for its 10th edition scheduled for April 23-27. The opening night party and screening will take place at the Dolby Screening Room in New York on April 23rd at 6:00pm.

Argo’s best picture win topped off a successful night at the Academy Awards for movies originating on Kodak film. In the 85-year history of the awards, no Oscar-winning best picture has ever been made without motion picture film technology.



The Film School of New York Film Academy gives students the filmmaking experience necessary to make their own films. There is no single path or formula for creating a career in filmmaking. Our filmmaking graduates have gone on to win awards at film festivals, start production companies, become cinematographers, film editors, screenwriters, directors, producers, and even actors.

Following its recent alliance with Barco, Dreamworks Animation has released The Croods in the Auro 11.1 by Barco cinema sound format. The movie screened in Auro 11.1 at the CineStar Sony Center in Berlin last month. CineStar’s Sony Center cinema at Potsdamer Platz has eight theaters equipped with Auro 11.1.

Named one of the Best Movies of 2013 by film site Rotten Tomatoes with a 100 percent fresh tomato meter, Dave Grohl’s directorial debut Sound City remains atop the iTunes documentary charts for the second week in a row in the U.S. and 15 countries and jumped to the top spot of the Amazon Documentary chart in Blu-ray pre-orders.

The television and film industries have announced plans to roll out a national multimedia campaign to inform parents about the many tools that can help them manage what their children see on television and at the movies. 

The industries say they will make a positive contribution to the national conversation on violent behavior by launching a national educational campaign through communications channels including television public service announcements, educational and informational websites, in-theater advertising, and other media.



Baltasar Kormákur’s riveting drama The Deep won a record 11 Edda Awards at the annual ceremony celebrating Icelandic film and television, the most honors a film has received in the event’s 15 year history. The film received 16 nominations in 14 categories and among the prizes won was Best Film of the Year, Best Director, Best Actor in a Leading Role for Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Best Cinematography, Bergsteinn Bjorgulfsson and Best Original Score, Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason.