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A Cannes of Worms
Soderbergh opens the AI debate Cannes wasn’t ready to have, Canal+ blacklists 600 filmmakers, and A24 drops $17 million on a party promoter.
May 22
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The Cannes Opener
150,000 people, packed like sardines on the French Riviera for twelve days. Our field guide to this year’s Cannes film festival.
May 12
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Nine connectors and Lufthansa loses the Oscar
Claude plugs into Premiere, Photoshop, Blender, and six more. Devil Wears Prada 2 hires real painter to fake AI image. And the best ad of 2026 has zero…
May 7
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April 2026
NAB: a century of showing up
From radio to render farms: 103 years of the world’s biggest production show.
Apr 28
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Disney and the infinity war
A new premium format to rival IMAX, a Doomsday trailer nobody’s allowed to see, and ARRI changes hands for the first time in 109 years.
Apr 22
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Pan America
There's only one American film out of 21 competition slots at this year's Cannes. The world's biggest film industry has never had a smaller footprint on…
Apr 14
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26 million views, 1 star, and a trip around the Moon
Artemis II loops the Moon in 4K, India's AI film industry speeds into stratosphere and movies are getting longer whether you like it or not.
Apr 8
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A genius built the backbone of video—then vanished - Part 2
Inside FFmpeg: funding, fragility, and the dozen people keeping the internet alive.
Apr 2
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March 2026
Sayonara, Sora
OpenAI’s video app dies after six months, and Sony’s memory cards are going in a flash - quite literally.
Mar 31
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A genius built the backbone of video—then vanished
Inside FFmpeg: conflict, control, and the code behind everything you watch. Part 1.
Mar 26
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$6 million, a pair of jeans, and the worst film ever made
How a San Fran jeans shop funded Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, a first-time director borrowed a Black List login to get to SXSW and Sony just dropped an…
Mar 25
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Notes from Austin
SXSW loses its center and finds itself, Apple absorbs Final Cut’s best plug-in maker, and the first woman to win Best Cinematography in 96 years.
Mar 18
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