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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.
2 hrs ago
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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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Affleck and making the unmade
Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI startup, a podcast resurrects Hollywood’s lost films, and SXSW begins another year of discovering the next ones.
Mar 9
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Back to the Future (1897)
Cinema’s oldest robot resurfaces from 1897. Paul Trillo builds an AI pipeline for F1.
Mar 3
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February 2026
How to direct an AI ad for Google
A Google creative director published the most honest breakdown on directing an AI ad
Feb 26
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Claude vs. Chat
The Half-Trillion Dollar Superbowl ad Rap Beef
Feb 20
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The future is USB?
Two programmers just launched Video Store.Age, a distribution label selling indie films on encrypted USBs.
Feb 10
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Indie film makes peace with AI
Sundance makes it official, Aronofsky makes it awkward. The normalization continues.
Feb 4
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