CALIFORNIA FILM COMMISSION SELECTS FILMS TO RECEIVE TAX CREDITS

The California Film Commission has announced that 27 movies and TV series will share $100 million in tax credits in the coming year. The Commission said that it had received 176 applications this year. Three TV series received the largest amounts — Bad Wolf Productions’ Torchwood and FTP’s Body of Proof and The Protectors. In […]

STRAIGHT-FACED COMEDIAN LESLIE NIELSEN DEAD AT 84

Leslie Nielsen, who played deadly serious roles in movies like The Poseidon Adventure and TV series like The Protectors and Bracken’s World until he began playing deadly serious roles in comedies like Airplane and The Naked Gun, has died from complications from pneumonia in Fort Lauderdale, FL. He was 84.