The Austin film and TV scene has come back strong, but can that return be sustained? BY RICHARD WHITTAKER, FRI., JULY 9, 2021 A year ago,...

In the recently released “The News of the World,” Tom Hanks and a young girl take a perilous journey across the Texas of 1870. It’s a...

This week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency put Los Angeles County at the top of its new National Risk Index, which calculates...

#3 Austin For many in the film world, the cancellation of Austin’s SXSW was the moment of realization that COVID-19 was going to cause...

I’m hoping you’ll see “News of the World,” the new Tom Hanks movie based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Paulette Jiles, a...

From script to screen to jobs BY RICHARD WHITTAKER, Austin Chronicle FRI., JAN. 15, 2021 In a time of economic hardship, when tax...

A fight over state incentives for the movie, TV and video game industries sparked plenty of drama at the Texas Capitol two years ago....

Texas' subsidies for producers of films, television shows and video games are again at risk of being eliminated. Every two years when the...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) -- A Texas lawmaker wants to abolish the program that promotes film, television and video game productions in the state....

Producers of the feature film "Galveston" needed a coastal town for the setting of their crime thriller, now in production and based on...

There is some Texas-sized drama surrounding the future of the film industry in the Lone Star State. State lawmakers are considering...

AA AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas film industry took the fight for funding to lawmakers today. More than $60 million was cut from the...

AMC recently premiered 10 episodes of “The Son,” a series based on the celebrated novel spanning generations of Texans written by Austin...

Texas Motion Pictures is a vital part of the economy of Texas. Through the inception of the Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive...

If Texas guts the budget for its film incentives program, Dallas can probably say goodbye to the production, and to the X-Men. The news...

The film and TV industry in Texas, at least as we’ve come to know it, is reeling. Last week, as the Texas Senate hosted Chuck Norris –...

Television streaming giant Hulu is expected to spend an estimated $13 million renovating a new 45,000-square-foot campus in San Antonio...

The Texas Enterprise Fund should be re-upped to the tune of more than $100 million, Gov. Greg Abbott said today in a speech to the Dallas...

Plenty of movie blockbusters have been built around the theme of plucky protagonists triumphing over adversity through grit, hard work...

Opponents call it 'welfare for Hollywood millionaires,' while supporters say it is a badly needed way to boost jobs and improve the...