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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 –…

Will artificial intelligence upend or help the media and entertainment industry? That’s one of the hot topics of debate of our time. In particular, whether cheap AI-generated content can outperform human creativity. Management consulting firm Bain & Co., in a …

It’s a tale as old as Hollywood: A writer drafts a screenplay and submits it to various competitions. They get some buzz, maybe even placing in a few, though their script ultimately doesn’t land anywhere. Then, they see a movie…

YouTube has now spent half a year as the leading company in share of TV viewing in the United States — and its lead grew in July. The streamer had 13.4 percent of all TV use for the month, according…