Ninety-five years ago Monday – March 31, 1930 – the Motion Picture Production Code, a form of industry self-censorship also known as the Hays Code, was formed, but not enforced until 1934. It reigned ...

The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 codified the moral prescriptions of 1920s conservatism. Today, President Trump has resurrected that impulse — not to police films, but to criminalize dissent ...

This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. In 1930, Hollywood teamed up with the Catholic Church. The result was the ...

Before reading Sick and Dirty, queer representation in Hollywood wasn’t a subject I’d given much thought to or had occasion to study. By the time I started watching films, the Motion Picture ...

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount‘s motion picture divisions, including production, literary, marketing and music, were impacted Wednesday by the wider company layoffs, with many Melrose Ave lot vets exiting. The ...

The Motion Picture Association is gearing up to push for significant changes in the California film incentive, which would make it more generous to individual productions. Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged in ...