Brian Welk
Brian Welk is the Senior Reporter for IndieWire’s business team, covering entertainment industry news and analysis along with festival and awards coverage, primarily focused on the movies. Prior to joining IndieWire, Welk spent six years at the Hollywood trade publication TheWrap, eventually working his way up to the role of Senior Film Reporter. In that time, he’s attended and covered the Oscars, Sundance, TIFF, SXSW, the Golden Globes and more. He’s also served as a moderator for industry panel discussions at SXSW and elsewhere and appeared as an expert on “Good Morning America,” BBC News, and for other outlets.
Welk in 2022 won the New York Press Club Award for National Entertainment News (online) for his series of pieces focused on opportunities for deaf actors in Hollywood. That year, he was also nominated for online entertainment journalist of the year from the Los Angeles Press Club. Prior to that, he wrote for the IT and business podcast CIO Talk Radio.
Welk received his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University with a concentration in culture and communications and a master’s degree in Specialized Journalism: The Arts from the University of Southern California. Welk began his career in film criticism, and some of his freelance work has appeared in the Village Voice, LA Weekly, Consequence, and other publications, as well as on his own personal blog. For over two years and over 150 episodes, Welk also co-hosted an independent film news podcast called The News Reel, which featured guest journalists and critics discussing the biggest stories from that week in film news. Welk is native to the Chicagoland area and is based in Los Angeles.
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The Los Angeles bake-offs for the Sound, VFX, and makeup branches have also been canceled.
Dga awards
The 77th DGA Awards will be held on February 8.
RED CARPET
The actress chatted with IndieWire on the red carpet of the National Board of Review.
Drew Goddard will executive produce the show that's a new take on Louis Sachar's 1998 book and the 2003 movie.
Ratings
Also, "Squid Game" Season 2 is still huge.
DGA Awards
The 77th DGA Awards will be held on February 8.
Bocco will report to Chief Content Officer Jason Robell and lead the distributor's international releases of its films.
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The doc began filming shortly after the 2024 election and will be released theatrically and via Prime Video in 2025.
Golden Globes
"No one was asking for a three and a half hour film about a mid-century designer, on 70mm, but it works," the filmmaker said.
