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
Glory Days
The Boss called White a "terrific actor" after seeing him on set for the film "Deliver Me from Nowhere."
"I may not be interested in Y and Z, but if I can use it for the sake of X — all tools, if they do what they say they're going to do, are good tools," the director says.
BYO(P)B
Celebrate National Popcorn Day with up to 400 ounces of the buttery stuff for one day only on January 19.
The director of family favorites like 'Home Alone' is an unlikely partner on one of the more grizzly horror films of 2024.
Lively has formally filed her own suit against Baldoni and pushed back on the director's new claims.
After one week, the South Korean drama broke records and is already Netflix's seventh most popular series not in the English language.
Milly Alcock is playing Supergirl in the film directed by Craig Gillespie.
Will Lionsgate finally find a buyer? Will A24 set a new box office record? Will Apple TV+ finally go AVOD? We think so.
Oscars
The song "Forbidden Road" was found to contain similarities to an existing song not written for the film.
Zachary Wigon will direct the film based on the upcoming novel by author Virginia Feito.
Sundance
"Only something of this magnitude could make me withdraw," the director said in a statement.
Developing longterm strategies to establish crews and soundstages, cutting out red tape for indies, and even lobbying for a national film office are some of the ways to stop the bleeding.
