LOS ANGELES — California’s film industry may be showing signs of recovery, but one crucial part of Hollywood is still struggling to keep its jobs in the state. Now, California lawmakers are considering a new tax credit aimed specifically at bringing post-production work — including editing, sound and visual effects — back to California. A…
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood’s artificial-intelligence debate has entered an uncomfortable new phase: some of the industry’s experienced writers, directors and producers are now being paid to teach AI systems how to perform the very creative and production tasks they once did themselves. A report published Saturday, August 22, found that award-winning Hollywood professionals are taking…
By CalNews360 StaffPublished: August 22, 2026 Hollywood’s fight over the proposed Paramount Skydance–Warner Bros. Discovery merger has taken a new turn, and California is now at the center of the dispute. Paramount CEO David Ellison has threatened to begin moving the company out of California as soon as October 1 if California Attorney General Rob…
