The Five Nights at Freddy’s film crew has just wrapped filming in and around New Orleans, and here’s the official, calm goings-ons – and the unofficial, irrational hornets-on-cocaine level buzz – happening around the movie.
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The annual Festival de Cannes represents the opening crescendo of the year’s major film festivals. The movies that premiere, the people that show up – it’s an event saturated with Hollywood decadence and movement that takes place an ocean away from Hollywood. Film USA will represent Louisiana and the U.S. film industry.
Take a sliver of Big, a little Click, and throw a little sprig of Ted Lasso vibes in there. The Big Door Prize is a lot of things, and at its core is a Baton Rouge creator who built a snow globe around the fictional community of Deerfield, Louisiana and infused it with heart.
Crater is the latest Baton Rouge-filmed project to land on the Disney+ platform, following the National Treasure: Edge of History series, which aired its Season One finale back in February.
For an industry that is still perhaps coming out of an emotional pandemic hangover, it feels relevant to reflect on a film that was endangered to fall apart right in the middle of it. Fable House talked with Producer Sasha Yelaun about his experience during Covid completing a thematically heavy supernatural thriller that rests somewhere between Mad Men and The Twilight Zone.
Executive Producer at Louisiana Public Broadcasting, Linda Midgett helps lead the mission to entertain, educate, and inform the people of Louisiana. We talked to Linda about what it is like to serve as the Executive Producer at LPB, and how her experience as a showrunner, director, and producer is serving to grow the next generation of filmmakers.
With the 2023 Overlook Film Fest around the corner, we talked to Writer and Director Duncan Birmingham about his 2022 premiere, and what it was like creating a sleek and dangerous house party in The Hills.
The 2023 Overlook Film Festival will run from March 30th to April 2nd in the French Quarter in New Orleans, and here’s the full Overlook Film Festival lineup.