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Gray Frederickson, the Oscar-winning producer who worked alongside Francis Ford Coppola on the Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now and One From the Heart in a collaboration that spanned more than four decades, has died. He was 85.

Frederickson died Sunday at his home in Oklahoma City after a battle with prostate cancer, his wife, Karen, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Frederickson shared the best picture Oscar in 1975 with writer-director-producer Coppola and producer Fred Roos for The Godfather Part II — the first of just two sequels to take the big prize — and the trio (and Tom Sternberg) were nominated again for Apocalypse Now (1979).

“I got on a winning horse. I was with Francis Coppola, who’s no slouch. I was lucky enough to be carried along with him,” Frederickson told The Oklahoman in a 2021 interview. “I got lucky with him, but he says he got lucky with me.

Prairie Surf Media has named former Starz executive Paul Goldman as Executive Vice President, Head of Production at the company and its new Oklahoma-based Prairie Surf Studios.

Goldman will report to Prairie Surf founders and co-ceo’s Rachel Cannon and Matt Payne overseeing production and related services at studio’s 1.3m square feet of production support space and five clear span soundstages in downtown Oklahoma City. He joins Prairie Surf Media from Starz, where he was SVP, Head of Production. Previously, he served as VP of Post Production for ABC Studios.

The studio opened last summer and follows Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signing off on a new cash-back film rebate program with a rolling $30 million dollar cap and up to 38% for qualified expenditures. The “Filmed in Oklahoma Act of 2021″ was signed in May and took effect July 1 to attract new film and TV production. The Prairie soundstages range from 25,000 – 32,000 square...

Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” may be the highest-profile film production taking place in Oklahoma at the moment, but if some of the state’s film industry influencers have their way, there is much more around the corner.

Oklahoma is rolling out the welcome mat to Hollywood. Early next month, it is set to launch a new film incentive program that’s nearly quadruple the size of its current program. It’s part of a concerted vision by lawmakers and local industry leaders to turn the Sooner State into a production powerhouse through the incentive, workforce development, and infrastructure investment like soundstages.

The new program offers film and TV productions up to a 38 percent rebate on money they spend in Oklahoma, with a cap of $30 million annually. By comparison, Georgia — considered one of the most film-friendly states in the nation — offers up to 30 percent.

Oklahoma’s base...

Prairie Surf Studios has officially launched in downtown Oklahoma City in a converted convention center with five new soundstages and over 1.3 million square feet of production support space.

The soundstages range from 25,000 – 32,000 square feet in the old Cox Convention Center. The studio was created by Prairie Surf Media, founded by industry veterans and Oklahoma natives, actress Rachel Cannon and screenwriter Matt Payne.

The Oscar-winning and much decorated film Minari – about a South Korean family trying to make a life in the rural U.S. — filmed in the state (which was standing in for Arkansas).

The studio announcement follows Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signing off on a new cash-back film rebate program with a rolling $30 million dollar cap and up to 38% for qualified expenditures. The “Filmed in Oklahoma Act of 2021″ was signed May 25 and takes...

MTV's "Underemployed" follows a group of twenty-somethings as they find their footing in romance, frienddships, and the workplace -- and this week, that last one is going to be pretty tricky for Daphne (Sarah Habel). When Todd (Charlie Webber) steals her idea, she's got to confront him -- on a professional level, and a more personal level.

He's not the only one she's got to face, though. As you can see in Zap2it's exclusive first look clip below, Daphne decides to tell her boss, Deb (Rachel Cannon) that Todd took credit for an idea that wasn't his. As you can see, it really doesn't go well for her.

The episode, which airs Tuesday, Oct. 30 at 10 p.m. Est, also features Miles (Diego Boneta) struggling to adjust to his bachelor pad being converted to a baby-safe zone. We'll also learn why he considers himself to be a "lesbian whisperer" when...

New York-based actress-comedian Andrea Rosen (Comedy Central’s Michael & Michael Have Issues) has landed the female lead opposite Andrew Gurland in Showtime’s comedy pilot The Andrew Gurland Project (form. Gurland On Gurland). The project, produced by Showtime in association with CBS TV Studios and Glenn Gordon Caron’s Picturemaker Prods., is a first-person documentary comedy written, directed and starring filmmaker Andrew Gurland, which reflects his real family life and the challenges he faces pursuing the next phase of his career. Gurland and Caron are executive producing. Rosen is with Gersh. Sebastian Sozzi, Rachel Cannon and Sadie Calvano have joined Jennie Garth in the ABC Family’s half-hour comedy pilot Village People, from creator Meg DeLoatch. The project centers on Alexa (Garth), a single, high-powered career woman who adopts a baby from a teen mother (Calvano) — whom she ends up caring for as well. Sozzi and Cannon will play Alexa’s fiends Remy and Candace,...

We've added new images in from Screen Media Films' comedy "Smother," starring Dax Shepard, Liv Tyler, Diane Keaton, Mike White, Rachel Cannon, Ken Howard, Don Lake, Steven Christopher Parker and Ron Butler. Vince Di Meglio directs and writes the film alongside Tim Rasmussen. Di Meglio made his directorial debut on 2000's "Deadfall." See all the images in the gallery. Marilyn Cooper (Academy Award-winner Diane Keaton) is one of those mothers- the kind who’ll call at 6:30 in the morning, or tell embarrassing stories about her son Noah (Dax Shepard) to complete strangers. When she suspects her husband is having an affair, she decides it’s time to “take a break”, and shows up on Noah’s doorstep with bags and five foster dogs in tow. Already having lost his job, hosting an unwelcome houseguest (Mike White) on his couch, and facing pressure from his wife Clare (Liv Tyler) to...

We've added new images in from Screen Media Films' comedy "Smother," starring Dax Shepard, Liv Tyler, Diane Keaton, Mike White, Rachel Cannon, Ken Howard, Don Lake, Steven Christopher Parker and Ron Butler. Vince Di Meglio directs and writes the film alongside Tim Rasmussen. Di Meglio made his directorial debut on 2000's "Deadfall." Marilyn Cooper (Academy Award-winner Diane Keaton) is one of those mothers- the kind who’ll call at 6:30 in the morning, or tell embarrassing stories about her son Noah (Dax Shepard) to complete strangers. When she suspects her husband is having an affair, she decides it’s time to “take a break”, and shows up on Noah’s doorstep...

We've added new images in from Screen Media Films' comedy "Smother," starring Dax Shepard, Liv Tyler, Diane Keaton, Mike White, Rachel Cannon, Ken Howard, Don Lake, Steven Christopher Parker and Ron Butler. Vince Di Meglio directs and writes the film alongside Tim Rasmussen. Di Meglio made his directorial debut on 2000's "Deadfall." Marilyn Cooper (Academy Award-winner Diane Keaton) is one of those mothers- the kind who’ll call at 6:30 in the morning, or tell embarrassing stories about her son Noah (Dax Shepard) to complete strangers. When she suspects her husband is having an affair, she decides it’s time to “take a break”, and shows up on Noah’s doorstep...