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Sci-Fi Comes To Life As Mars One Chooses Final 100 Candidates
It is either the most ambitious project in the history of mankind, or a brilliant reality television production that has an elaborate hoax at the heart of its marketing plan. Dutch nonprofit company,...
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WGA Announces This Year’s Winners
The Writer’s Guild of America—Hollywood’s most prominent union for screenwriters—announced the winners of their annual award ceremony this weekend, in one of the final award shows of the year before...
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Composer Daniel Wohl Joins NYFA Screenwriting Class
On January 13, 2015, composer Daniel Wohl sat down with New York Film Academy’s Business of Screenwriting class to offer up his unique perspective on how he broke into the entertainment business as a...
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George R.R. Martin Says “Everybody Better Be On Their Toes”
As season 5 of Game of Thrones approaches, the creator of the series has put out a statement warning its fans: “everybody better be on their toes.” Fans of the show who have read the books have...
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Screenwriter David Chirchirillo Joins NYFA’s Biz of Screenwriting Class
Last month, rising genre screenwriter David Chirchirillo joined New York Film Academy’s Business of Screenwriting class, entertaining students with his journey of how this film student originally from...
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Citywide High School Scholarship Winners
The New York Film Academy rewarded scholarships to our summer acting and filmmaking workshops for deserving high school students in New York City. Scholarship opportunities were open to New York City...
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’50 Shades of Grey’ Breaks Records at the Box Office, Not with Viewers
’50 Shades of Grey’ breaks records at the Box Office. Viewers left not-so-impressed. 50 Shades of Grey strategically had its official release date set for Valentine’s with Variety announcing the record...
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X-Men Sequel Reveals Production Art, New Nightcrawler
Big news from the Apocalypse this week, or rather, X-Men: Apocalypse, the highly anticipated sequel to last year’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Director Bryan Singer tweeted some production art that...
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NYFA Screenwriting Graduates Celebrate with Industry Pitch Fest
On January 21st, 14 graduating MFA and AFA New York Film Academy Screenwriting students attended their culminating Industry Pitch Fest Event held at the Andaz Hotel up on Sunset Boulevard in West...
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John Oliver in for Two More Seasons of ‘Last Week Tonight’
With the recent announcement of long-time news satirist Jon Stewart stepping down from his Comedy Central show, The Daily Show, much speculation has surrounded the notion that former Daily Show...
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New Line To Give Shaft Another Shot
New Line Cinemas, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. entertainment, has acquired the rights 1970s class Shaft and are planning to reboot the franchise. John Davis has been pulled on board for producing, but...
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District 9 Director Tweets His Way to New Alien Film
It was announced this week that Neill Blomkamp, writer and director of District 9 and the Matt Damon dystopian sci-fi Elysium, will be helming a new Alien film. While another sci-fi sequel isn’t...
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NYFA Appoints Medal of Honor Recipient Col Jack Jacobs
Colonel Jack Jacobs New York Film Academy Los Angeles Veteran Students gathered in a Warner Bros. theater last night, Wednesday February 18th, for a special lecture from Medal of Honor Recipient and...
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Emmys Announce New Rules for TV Awards
Not content to let the Oscars get all the press, the Academy of Television has announced new rule changes and categories to their award ceremony, shaking up the game for some of the most buzzed about...
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Craig Ross, Jr. Advises Directors to Utilize Social Media
NYFA Directing Instructor Craig Ross, Jr. After graduating from film school, New York Film Academy Directing Instructor Craig Ross, Jr. moved to Los Angeles, where he formed his own production company...
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NYFA Grad Marisol Tudela: The Fashionista Chica
Successful fashion, lifestyle and event journalist, as well as New York Film Academy alum, Marisol Tudela will be the guest speaker this Friday at the graduation ceremony of the February 4-week...
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‘Better Call Saul’ Co-Creator Developing HBO Movie
With the instant success of Breaking Bad spin-off series, Better Call Saul, co-creator and producer Peter Gould has Hollywood knocking for more ideas. Now, he’s currently developing an untitled HBO...
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Telltale Is Making an Interactive TV-Video Game Hybrid
Telltale Games, a premier video game studio known for its choose-your-own-adventure titles, announced it will be merging its specialty product with a live-action television show. It’s a potentially...
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DuckTales Set to Return in 2017
Get ready to solve some mysteries, or rewrite history, or just go diving head-first into a pile of gold coins. Disney is planning on rebooting DuckTales, the animated series that lasted through 100...
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Acclaimed Documentary Filmmaker Bruce Sinofsky Passes Away at 58
There is sad news in the world of film today, as acclaimed documentary filmmaker Bruce Sinofsky has passed away at the age of 58. As confirmed by his long-time collaborator Joe Berlinger, Sinofsky...
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