J Balvin’s second Los Angeles show kicked off with a few rules – dance, take photos, make friends with the dinosaurs walking the audience, and throw your lingerie onto the stage when you’re feeling frisky. The rules were incorporated into a whimsical opening film that encapsulated the essence of the Colombian artist’s playful persona with […]
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Q&A: Screenwriter Eric Roth on bringing history and fiction into harmony
Eric Roth doesn’t sleep very much and whizzes through two or three books a week. The “Forrest Gump” writer and UCLA alumnus said his voracious reading is often used as precursive research to develop characters in screenplays. Roth most recently served as executive producer on psychological thriller miniseries “The Alienist,” which garnered six Emmy nominations. […]
Alumna joins Emmy-hopeful ‘Empire’ as consulting producer in Fox development deal
Warning: This post contains plot spoilers of previous seasons of “Empire.” “Empire” earned no Emmy nominations in the main categories. But it is slated as a potential winner in a costume category and recently gained a new consulting producer, as well. UCLA alumna and former professor Felicia D. Henderson jumped aboard “Empire” in July as […]
Director of Swarovski’s sustainability documentary shares angle, experiences
Swarovski’s Waterschool initiative spans across 2,400 centers in seven countries, along the world’s major rivers. The program, which aims to educate and empower communities toward water sustainability, is the focus of “Waterschool,” a 70-minute documentary that dropped on Netflix on July 25. Produced by UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Dean Teri Schwartz and […]
Black Panther: Two Months Later
After decades of pushing for racial diversity, a stellar black superhero took his place among the ones we’re used to seeing on screen – one step closer to a more equitable future for Hollywood.
UCLA alumnus suing ‘The Disaster Artist’ for unfulfilled agreement
A UCLA alumnus is suing “The Disaster Artist,” alleging its production company did not fulfill its agreement with him as an uncredited screenwriter on the film. Ryan Moody filed his complaint Wednesday in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. The lawsuit alleges that Rabbit Bandini Productions, the production company […]
Movie review: ‘Black Panther’
World-changing technology meets rural grasslands in Marvel’s latest venture. “Black Panther,” the sixth film in Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, follows T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) after he becomes king of Wakanda. In addition to his royal transition, T’Challa must defeat the unscrupulous smuggler Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis) and lethal criminal Erik Killmonger (Michael B. […]