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Reese Witherspoon wants women to embrace artificial intelligence as media evolves with new technology. In an interview with Glamour published Tuesday about The Morning Show, the actress spoke about the importance of getting women involved in “emerging industries,” especially now…

When the annals of 2025 at the movies are written, no one will remember The Electric State. The film, a sci-fi comic-book adaptation, is set in a world in which sentient robots have lost a war with humans. Netflix blew…

Bollywood, famed for its lavish song-and-dance numbers and vast production crews, now finds itself confronting a new kind of spectacle: artificial intelligence. From altering iconic endings to generating entire films, AI is shaking up India’s multibillion-dollar film industry, raising alarm…

Tropfest, once the world’s largest and most celebrated short film festival, is making a dramatic comeback. After folding in 2019 on the eve of the pandemic, the festival will return in February 2026, with its iconic finals night back at…

At a time when capitalist forces are driving much of the advancement in artificial intelligence, Alex Proyas sees the use of AI in film-making as a source of artistic liberation. While many in the film sector see the emergence of…

A Hollywood producer bilked film and business partners out of $12 million, claiming he was using their money to work on movies or other legitimate enterprises, but instead using it to buy expensive cars, houses and even a surrogate, prosecutors…

YouTube has now spent half a year as the leading company in share of TV viewing in the United States, with 13.4% of all TV use in July, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That’s a four-point lead over Disney, and…

Man, it is so hard to break into Hollywood that nothing makes me madder than websites exploiting aspiring writers. Recently, a writer sent me an email asking me to look into a website called GET IT MADE. Read on…

The use of AI on creative content is often contentious enough, but when one of the world’s biggest platforms starts doing it without user consent? That takes things to a whole new level. Rhett Shull is a popular music YouTuber…

In Nobody, a government assassin turned middle-aged family man (Bob Odenkirk) breaks out of his humdrum suburban existence by instigating an escalating feud with the Russian mob. In the film’s sequel, out in theaters, a burnt-out Odenkirk now needs a break…

Controversially, the production was mostly shot in New Zealand with non-Hawaiian crews. Duncan Caillard asks why. Jason Momoa’s historical epic Chief of War, which launched on Friday on Apple TV+, is a triumph of Hawaiians telling their own stories –…