Don Dixon has shaped many lives. Over and over, he has uncovered and helped to develop talent -- including REM, The Smithereens, The Counting Crows, Hootie and The Blowfish.
Nicholas Weinstock | Posted 02.14.2012
PRODUCER: Hey, look who it is: Exec of the Year. I thought I might run into you at one of these holiday things. EXECUTIVE: This is our Christmas party. How did you get on the lot?
Rick Schwartz | Posted 01.16.2012
Credits. Everyone sees them on posters, in advertisements and on screen, but nobody is quite sure what they mean. As a producer, it's the question I get asked more frequently than any other -- especially by my mother: Who are all those people, and what do they do?
Leo C. Wolinsky | Posted 11.07.2011
A new generation of young movie producers has appeared on the scene, making low-budget films without the backing -- or interference -- of big studios.
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 10.18.2011
Two major indicators of inflation rose last month, but most economists say they aren't worried. Some even say it's a good thing. The Consumer Price...
Malia Cohen | Posted 09.11.2011
The San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market is a gem nestled in the heart of the Southeast Section of San Francisco. Now that the lease is about to expire, the City is looking to renew the lease with a larger vision for the future.
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 09.08.2011
With the country in the middle of a jobs crisis, finding any form of employment is tough, let alone jobs in the arts. It turns out, however, that t...
Candy Spelling | Posted 05.25.2011
It would be easy to paint a very grim picture of gender equality in Tinseltown. Statistics don't lie, but the numbers alone do not tell the whole story. We now have women being recognized in almost every category of the Oscars.
Nicholas Weinstock | Posted 05.25.2011
No, dude, I'm not cutting you on line. I'm just saying hi. You don't remember me, do you? I brought that Yahtzee pitch into you a couple months ago.
Michelle Edgar | Posted 05.25.2011
Music Unites is joining with ASCAP tomorrow night to present "ASCAP's Night School: Publishing 101" the first in a series of four workshop panels deve...
Jeff Steele | Posted 05.25.2011
In the world of streaming, Netflix is the undisputed king of prime time. According to the Fall 2010 Global Internet Phenomena report, "In the United ...
Elaine Shannon | Posted 05.25.2011
Just because taxpayers have been paying for all that testing doesn't mean they get the facts -- just the facts, nothing but the facts -- about what government scientists have actually found.
Abe Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011
If you really want to make features, just do it. Make one within your means right now, and accept that even once you're done your first, you're still a rookie in the game.
Abe Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011
You can shoot top-quality HD video on a DSLR camera. What does this mean for people looking to make careers out of producing video content?
Nomiki Konst | Posted 05.25.2011
The United States of America has a dirty little secret. We're addicted to a drug. A drug dealt everyday in the halls of Congress, on the streets of Washington. That drug is corruption, pure and simple.
Jeff Steele | Posted 05.25.2011
indie films are competing for distribution and exhibition screens with big budget studio movies and those movies are benefiting from nifty advances in technology; primarily, innovations in 3-D.
Ashley Wren Collins | Posted 05.25.2011
As this year's film market at Cannes clearly demonstrates, old models are not working.
Deborah Calla | Posted 11.17.2011
A number of Hollywood unions and guilds have organized a night of dramatic readings of blogs and poems written by Afghan Women living in Afghanistan.
Stephen Viscusi | Posted 05.25.2011
It is time, to figure out how to re-invent yourself for 2010. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Kim Mance | Posted 05.25.2011
This chat with Larry Hankin renewed my appreciation for the phenomenon of "Second City", a legendary performing arts school which teaches its students to "play the reality, not the joke."
Gildart Jackson | Posted 05.25.2011
The making of this movie was a family adventure. And we quickly found that this was the way we needed to look at it -- and the way we needed to sell it to our family!
Earnest Harris | Posted 05.25.2011
The toll of this month's long semi-strike, the 100 day long writer's strike, and the Director's Guild and AFTRA negotiations in 2008, has impacted and hurt not only our wallets, but our hearts as well.
Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 05.25.2011
The problems we face in food safety are familiar when viewing the unfolding financial crisis. We see cuts in agency budgets, weakening of regulations, and the fox being put in charge of the henhouse.
Jennie Blackton | Posted 05.25.2011
A bouquet of eulogies for the playwright and actor, George Furth, who died at 75 last week. These titles are simply the way George would surely introduce us to each other.
Ruth Gerson | Posted 04.06.2012