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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
7
Reckoning with Reckoning
16 years after The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin’s sequel The Social Reckoning drops first trailer. Jury’s out.
Jun 17
6
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
8
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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May 2026
From Subway to a million followers
The clipping economy explained, IMAX explores a sale weeks after Disney launched a competitor, and Netflix cut its Q1 movie output in half.
May 27
5
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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