RED’s RAW patent cracks in Japan as Eli Roth’s hand-drawn animation turns out to be AI
Every claim in this business survives until someone checks and this week, someone checked twice.
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Inside Amazon’s strange experiment to reinvent Hollywood.
The $1M AI film festival
A next generation of filmmakers and the next generation of audiences just showed up in the same week and neither one looks anything like the industry expected.
Death to Blu-ray
Thrift store shelves are emptying, and nobody’s coming to restock them. Here’s why the next few months matter more than the last two decades did for blu-ray.
IMAX was never supposed to make movies
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A World Cup of Cameras
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Steadicam’s inventor gets a doc as IMAX’s original thrill ride turns 50
A new documentary on Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown and the 50th anniversary of To Fly! trace today’s cinematic language back to the engineers and rule-breakers who built it.
California tells streamers to use their indoor voice
A new law bans loud streaming ads inspired by a staffer’s baby getting woken up.
Google’s $75m on A24
Google’s first ever stake in a film studio, Amazon drops a film about the CEO of its AI partner, and the most expensive movie ever made cost $658.8 million.. partly because of jazz piano.
Reckoning with Reckoning
16 years after The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin’s sequel The Social Reckoning drops first trailer. Jury’s out.