Tim Davie and other BBC executives have demanded a meeting over the airing of a Gaza documentary fronted by a Hamas minister’s son. Mr Davie will chair crisis talks with other executives to discuss why the corporation decided to broadcast the controversial documentary, which has been branded Hamas propaganda by critics. On Friday, the broadcaster […]
Almodóvar: This one in particular is also based on the famous work by Andrew Wyeth. Grau: Pedro, from the moment we spoke about this scene, had this reference of Andrew Wyeth’s painting in his mind. He liked the scope and the feeling of the image to be one of the important points of the scene. […]
Waymo says the problem only caused a delay of just over five minutes and that Johns was not charged for the trip. A spokesperson for Waymo, which is owned by Google parent Alphabet, told Ars today that the “looping event” occurred on December 9 and was later addressed during a regularly scheduled software update. Waymo […]
Indian star Kartik Aaryan is back as ‘Rooh Baba’ in the Hindi movie Bhool Bhulaiyyaa 3′. T Series Kartik Aaryan’s Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 landed online on December 27 and is already the second most-watched non-English film on Netflix worldwide. In the week ending December 29, the Anees Bazmee-directorial registered 3.7 million views and became second […]
Little progress has been made for women and people of color as directors in Hollywood, according to a new study by USC‘s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. In a year that was hoping to signal recovery following the 2023 writers and actors strikes, 2024 saw no major changes for women directors of top-grossing movies, according to the […]
Earlier this year, TCL released a trailer for Next Stop Paris — an AI-animated short film that seems like a Lifetime movie on steroids. The trailer had all the hallmarks of AI: characters that don’t move their mouths when they talk, lifeless expressions, and weird animation that makes it look like scenes are constantly vibrating. […]
Films Boutique has picked up international rights to Amel Guellaty’s “Where the Wind Comes From” (formerly known as “Tunis-Djerba”), ahead of its world premiere in Sundance’s World Dramatic Competition. The International Film Festival Rotterdam will host the European premiere of the coproduction between Tunisia, France and Qatar, which is Guellaty’s first feature. In the film, […]
Advertising has become a focal point of TV software. We’re seeing companies that sell TV sets be increasingly interested in leveraging TV operating systems (OSes) for ads and tracking. This has led to bold new strategies, like an adtech firm launching a TV OS and ads on TV screensavers. With new short films set to […]
Spanish producers Batiak Films and Elora Posthouse have boarded Maria Paz Barragán’s immigration horror feature “Tenants” as co-producers. The Madrid-set feature will be pitched at this year’s Ventana Sur Proyecta sidebar by its Peruvian lead producer, Final Abierto. An example of Latin America’s maturing and constantly diversifying genre scene and the region’s increasingly strong industry […]
The minute Denzel Washington swaggers into Sir Ridley Scott’s 29th feature film, Gladiator 2you know it’s fucking on. There’s that grin, several pounds of costume jewelry, a voice that sounds more like Alonzo Harris than Lawrence Olivier—and it takes nothing from his performance. I watched the film at the world’s greatest iMax/overall movie theater in […]
