Deborah Cook, costumer designer at stop-motion animation studio Laika, discusses creating tiny costumes for puppets in a fantastical world set in the forests of Portland, Oregon Annalise June Kamegawa | Freelance Writer …
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This stretch of the 2026 film calendar is all about Big Tech. With Aaron Sorkin’s pseudo-sequel “The Social Reckoning” opening this weekend and Luca Guadagnino‘s OpenAI satire “Artificial” premiering at …
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Last year, all sorts of birds were seen flying through the movies in the lineup of the BFI London Film Festival (LFF). This year, the festival is getting concrete – …
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When you’re asked to think about iconic character introductions, your mind may not immediately shoot to Captain Jack Sparrow. Obviously, the character himself has become a cultural icon, but his …
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“The Inbetweeners” — the hit Brit teen comedy series from the late 2000s that spawned two successful spin-off films — is officially back. A reunion movie is now in the works at …
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Elon Munk has — finally — broken his silence on “The Odyssey” (well, at least since Christopher Nolan’s epic was released and started breaking various box office records). The tech mogul and …
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Ungrounded LLM Fabricates Every Detail for Nearly 1 in 5 Movie and TV Titles Tested, New Gracenote Report Finds
Gracenote, the content intelligence business unit of Nielsen, today released its latest report, “Plot holes in AI: Why Ungrounded LLMs Can’t Fix Content Discovery.” The research examines how accurately a …
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What Happens When the Author Directs the Movie: How Robert Rodriguez Recruited Frank Miller to Co-Direct Sin City
In the nineteen-nineties, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez first collaborated on a movie. No, it wasn’t From Dusk Till Dawn, the Rodriguez-directed crime-picture-turned-horror-comedy in which Tarantino plays George Clooney’s psychotic brother. It …
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A24’s Backrooms movie has a ‘fairly simple’ story, its director says — but the new horror movie doesn’t dumb down ‘all of the lore’ that diehard fans love in order to appeal to a wider audience
The director of A24’s Backrooms movie has had his say on why some film adaptations fail Kane Parsons thinks some studios ignore the “actual DNA” of franchises that made them …
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Paddington Bear has found a new pair of writers to come up with his next big screen adventure and looks to have secured a director as well. Variety can exclusively …