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.
Latest by Brian Welk
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Shareholders must now hang their hats on the plan outlined by the three-headed Office of the CEO — or whomever finally buys National Amusements.
Siege of the Alamo
Sony Pictures Entertainment will operate the dine-in theater chain under a new division, with an eye toward bolstering Crunchyroll.
Ratings
Richard Gadd's limited series has been viewed 84.5 million times and counting.
The "Hollywoodland" exhibit was made permanent in May after the museum originally omitted Jewish representation, but now the Academy vows to change it.
Strike Watch
Hollywood's drivers, chef assistants, location managers, and animal wranglers want a fair deal ahead of their contract expiring on July 31.
Exclusive
Exclusive: Seed&Spark and Kinema have launched open-source online guide The Distribution Playbook to address the essential question: 'What the f*ck is happening in distribution and what are we supposed to do about it?"
Bankrupt
More than 600 employees are being let go as the franchisee company that operated the theaters files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
IATSE
The crafts union is scheduling more Basic Agreement talks as early as next week, but the clock is ticking before the July 31 deadline, and things got a bit more complicated.
Hungry
Suzanne Collins' next book "Sunrise on the Reaping" was just announced this morning. Lionsgate's movie version is already set for 2026.
News
The film based on the adaptation of the Claire Keegan novel was produced by and stars the "Oppenheimer" Oscar winner, and it premiered at this year's Berlinale.
Pay-It-Forward
In return, Alejandro Monteverde will direct and produce five to 10 theatrical films for Angel over the next decade.
