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  • The Social Reckoning is flopping at the box office

    As important as some of the messages in The Social Reckoning are, the movie has been drastically underperforming at the box office. Per Variety, Aaron's Sorkin's follow up to The Social Network only grossed a measly $5.5 million this past weekend against a budget that's somewhere within the $30-42…

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  • George A. Romero’s Season of the Witch is a slow-burn feminist occult drama

    George A. Romero is obviously best known as the father of the modern zombie movie. But between inventing the genre with Night of the Living Dead and his outbreak horror, The Crazies, Romero made two much lesser-known films: There's Always Vanilla, which I'll admit I've never seen, and Season of the…

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  • Vurt wants you to look at vertical videos as a genre of their own

    From Disney Plus to HBO Max, almost every major established streaming service is experimenting with ways to get into vertical content. It's clear that these companies see video-focused social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram as existential threats.

    The Verge - All Posts4 min read
  • Horror is big business

    This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on how pervasive horror has become, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback, arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here.

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  • Paramount is making a Cyberpunk 2077 film

    Cyberpunk 2077 is heading to the big screen. Deadline reports that CD Projekt Red's popular sci-fi video game franchise is being adapted into a live-action film by Paramount Pictures. There's no details just yet on when the film might premiere.

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  • Artificial is a wicked satire that also sticks to the facts

    At the New York Film Festival premiere of Artificial, Luca Guadagnino's satirical Sam Altman biopic, the director said onstage that "[when] someone wants to play God, that's very interesting to me." The idea of playing God, and power in general - who has it, who desperately wants it, and who will…

    The Verge - AI9 min read
  • Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery complete $110 billion media megamerger

    Paramount has completed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, forming a combined company known as Skydance. The merger officially puts Paramount and WBD's film studios, along with major networks and brands like HBO, CBS News, and CNN, under one roof.

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  • CNN’s boss will remain as Paramount and WBD merge into Skydance

    CNN CEO Mark Thompson will remain at the head of the news network when Paramount's $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition closes this week. Thompson wrote in a memo to employees that he believes the combined company will "fully support the principle and practice of the kind of independent…

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  • Netflix is pivoting away from prestige

    Many of Netflix's biggest critically acclaimed hits have been the products of its multiyear production deals with noted directors like David Fincher and Shawn Levy.

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  • Star Wars: Galactic Racer is my childhood podracing dream come true

    The podracing scene in The Phantom Menace is one of my favorite movie sequences ever. It's just so dang cool: The futuristic racers tear over treacherous Tatooine terrain while various Star Wars aliens bark at each other in incomprehensible sci-fi languages.

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  • What even is a ‘microdrama’?

    On Monday, Variety reported that RoseBerry Media is recutting episodes of the Australian soap opera Neighbours "into microdramas." These clips will be available on Epis, a short-form vertical video streaming platform.

    The Verge - All Posts7 min read
  • Neon sticks it to A24 by announcing a Creative Commons SCP Foundation movie

    A24 pissed off one of the internet's largest horror communities when it announced it was working on an SCP Foundation film, but apparently hadn't bothered to contact the SCP Wiki team, nor did it commit to releasing it under a Creative Commons license as required.

    The Verge - All Posts2 min read
  • How Zoroastro Won 2 Film Festival Awards Using Animaker?

    Zoroastro de Lima LucenaIndependent Filmmaker | Brazil This case study highlights how Zoroastro de Lima Lucena used Animaker to bring his original animated film to life entirely on his own.

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