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This story was originally published on The Spinoff.  Border Patrol is like a contraband box of chocolates – you never know what you’re going to get. It might be a festering horse head, a Latvian national declaring that he is…

Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh have joined Warner Bros’ and New Line Cinema’s animation The Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim as executive producers.   The duo’s involvement in the film, which is being directed by Kenji Kamiyama,…

Global advertising spending will grow 7.8 percent in 2024 to $989.8 billion and increase a further 6.8 percent in 2025 to $1.1 trillion, according to a new forecast from ad media giant GroupM. The updated estimates are up from a…

Filmmaker Jonathan King was the director/writer and judge/mentor for the recent REELS Independent Music Video Awards. OPINION: My first job in film was painting grime with a brush directly onto strips of 35mm film, to be superimposed as an organic ‘vignette’…

The poster and trailer for We Were Dangerous has been unveiled ahead of its nationwide cinema release on Thursday 22nd August. Following its world premiere in Austin, Texas at South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in March 2024, where it…

In 2024, the virtual production industry is witnessing significant changes and growth. Following last year’s labor strikes that severely impacted the media and entertainment industry, virtual production has rebounded with a 35% growth in the corporate and education sectors. Here…

Gus’ journey has finally come to an end on Sweet Tooth, Netflix’s adaptation of the DC comic book series of the same name by Jeff Lemire. Created by Jim Mickle, Sweet Tooth follows the adventures of Gus (Christian Convery) — part…

Within the elite group of website-giants is a video-sharing platform that we all interact with at least once a day. Known as the second largest search engine on the web—the first being Google—the platform is the go-to website for anyone…

There was a time when legendary location scout Lori Balton was like a modern-day Philip Marlowe, trolling the neighborhoods of Los Angeles, in search of the perfect private home to shoot. “We used to literally drive around and look at…