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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.
Aug 15
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The Price and the Open Door: How a Hollywood Prince Infiltrated Amazon (And Built an Empire Before Burning It Down)
Inside Amazon’s strange experiment to reinvent Hollywood.
Aug 13
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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…
Aug 7
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July 2026
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…
Jul 31
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IMAX was never supposed to make movies
From a Montreal Fairground in the 60s to Nolan’s record breaking Odyssey. We dive into the world of IMAX.
Jul 24
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A World Cup of Cameras
From the first televised tournament in 1954 to a chip that overrules every camera in the stadium, how football’s most-watched event became broadcast…
Jul 16
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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…
Jul 9
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California tells streamers to use their indoor voice
A new law bans loud streaming ads inspired by a staffer’s baby getting woken up.
Jul 2
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June 2026
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…
Jun 25
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Reckoning with Reckoning
16 years after The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin’s sequel The Social Reckoning drops first trailer. Jury’s out.
Jun 17
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Scorsese’s AI Obsession
Martin Scorsese backs an AI image startup, the art director of a $250 million hit made $6,741 while YouTube’s horror auteurs continue to rewrite the…
Jun 9
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YouTube is the new film school
Three horror films made by YouTubers are dominating the US box office. One cost under a million. One was self-distributed. One was directed by a…
Jun 2
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