Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation

Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation has announced that award-winning actress, producer, singer/songwriter, and entrepreneur Kate Hudson will be recognized with the 2025 Pioneer of the Year Award on October 8th at The Beverly Hilton. A tradition for more than...

The Press Room has announced the release of a new letterpress poster, curated by legendary stunt performer Zoë Bell. This eye-catching piece celebrates vintage movie advertisements from The Press Room collection featuring iconic, largely uncredited stunt performers from the golden...

On this Giving Tuesday, the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation (WRMPPF) is asking the motion picture industry to help working and retired members of our community in need. “The film industry has faced unprecedented challenges this year, and the...

Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation (WRMPPF) announced Friday that the late MGM and United Artists Releasing Distribution Chief Erik Lomis will be recognized posthumously with the 2023 Pioneer of the Year Award on October 4th at The Beverly Hilton....

The Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation has named producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli as its 2022 Pioneers of the Year. Wilson and Broccoli were presented the award by Daniel Craig and Michelle Yeoh at the Foundation’s Pioneer...

A cornerstone of the film industry since its founding in 1936, the Will Rogers Motion Pictures Pioneers Foundation has been an invaluable industry resource built to address the cinema community’s greatest needs. The foundation is starting a new chapter in...

Christina Blumer, is being promoted to Executive Director of the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation (WRMPPF), effective immediately, the organization announced Monday. The Foundation’s previous executive director, Todd Vradenburg, exited the post in March to become the President and...

“[Those in the] entertainment industry, as a whole, are not great historians,” says Todd Vradenburg, executive director of the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation. “Everyone looks forward, and no one looks back a little bit and says, ‘Hey, what...

Heather Morgan, currently the vice president of content and programming at Harkins Theatres, has been named the new president of the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation—making her the first woman to hold that role in the non-profit group’s august...

With moviegoers in much of the world sequestered at home, social media has proved key in maintaining communication, both within the exhibition community and between exhibitors and customers. A previous Boxoffice LIVE Session tackled the latter topic from a marketing...

For more than 80 years, the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation—founded in 1939 in memory of its movie star namesake, who died in a plane crash four years earlier—has been providing assistance to those in need within the film...