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2025: An Attention Odyssey

The Third Safdie: Ronald Bronstein and the Art of Editing Without Assembly Cuts

Gen Z's Bringing Cinema Back

Jafar Panahi: The Filmmaker Who Won a Palme d’Or by Making a Film in Secret

Santa’s Not Coming. OpenAI, Saudi Arabia, and Berlin VCs Are

The Rough Cut: 2025 Wrap-Up

What the Netflix–Warner Merger Actually Means for Creators

How Steven Soderbergh Shot a Feature in 13 Days...and Had a Rough Cut Three Hours Later

Apple Shot their entire Christmas Ad on an iPhone 17 (Yes, Really.)

FYI: FYC* - How to win an Oscar (for a Short)

207 Shorts Fight for 15 Oscar Spots; 4,000 Cinematographers Fight for Fair Pay

Scott Ross’ and James Cameron’s Pirate Ship: The Impossible Voyage and the Multi Million Dollar Iceberg (Pt.2)

Sora Burns $15 Million on Video (each day); Nolan Burns 2 Million Feet on Film

Michael Caine’s Forever Deal with the $6.6 Billion Voice Cloning Company

Resurrection Season: Kill Bill, Christ & the Cloud

Inside the COVID Hotel Factory Fueling China’s $6.9 Billion Micro-Drama Boom

IMAX to AI: A new film frontier

Kogonada: From Vimeo Essayist to Hollywood auteur

All the President’s Prompts

The Anatomy of a Great Trailer

The One Where YouTube Crashed Out

Could AI save Springfield?

Sora 2: The Sequel Hollywood Didn’t Want

One Edit After Another: Andy Jurgensen’s Masterclass in Momentum

Tariffs, Titans, and Tilly: America’s New Film Fight

How a Bronx Kid Infiltrated Lucas Skywalker Ranch (Pt 1)

The Sean Baker Cut: Inside an Oscar-winning edit

Hollywood signs first ever AI actor

Should directors edit?

Horror takes center stage: From Meta to Movies

The 17-Year-Old YouTuber Who Became A24’s Youngest Director

Vimeo’s off the menu; Paramount sharpens knife for Warner.

The Other Coppola: From Eleanor’s Apocalypse to the Ghost of Megalopolis

Hollywood’s Haunted Runway

The 10:01 Rule: How a Digital Stopwatch Accidentally Built the Creator Economy

We’re All Living in a Frankenstein Sequel

How a Stolen Print of Jerry Lewis’s Lost Nazi Clown Film Resurfaced 45 Years Later

YouTube’s Ghost in the Machine

The Lost City of NLEs: How Lucasfilm Built and Buried EditDroid

Render Time: August 18 Edition

When L Met J: A Love Story in Making Editing Invisible

Render Time: August 11 Edition

He Just Came Back from the Dead with a video About Death | Vsauce

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The Hidden Hand: Verna Fields, The Editor Who Saved Jaws from Drowning

Render Time: July 28 Edition

The Cut That Changed Everything. Screenlife: The Film Genre That Turned Our Screens Into The Scene

Render Time | July 21 edition

Hidden Hand: William Castle, the horror gimmick king who offered audiences a $1,000 life‑insurance policy in case they died of fright

Render Time: July 14 Edition

Video Stack: Ari Fararooy, Tom Brady’s Visual Trickster and Master of Surreal Social Cinema

The Cut That Changed Everything: Backup, But Not Background: How B-Roll Took Center Stage

Star Trek, a Basement, and a Broken Spine: The Origin Story of Hollywood’s Favorite Editing Software, Avid

Every Frame, Every Fix, All at Once: The Silent Power of Invisible VFX

Will H. Hays, the Preacher Who Saved Hollywood by Lying to America

Jim Cummings: One-Man Band Against the Hollywood Machine

Ed Pincus, the Documentarian Who Turned the Camera on Himself

The One-Take and the Cult of the Cutless Cut

An Untold Look at the “Debacle” of FCP7 to X

Cannes Confidential: Badges, Backrooms, and Blacklists

Video Stack: How David F. Sandberg went from No Budget to Hollywood

Muybridge: The Man Who Shot a Horse, His Wife’s Lover, and the First Frame of Cinema

The Cut That Changed Everything: Supercuts

Future Cut: Clouds, Cameras and Callsheets

Gareth Edwards and the workflow behind shooting a $80M Sci-Fi epic on a $4K camera

The Hidden Hand: Galyn Susman, the Woman Who Saved Toy Story 2 From Deletion

The Cut That Changed Everything: Jump Cuts

The sunglasses billionaire who got Hollywood to leave film behind

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