Film writing that isn’t a review — the people who make pictures away from the picture, the arguments the industry is having, how the work gets done, and what to watch next. Everything here is ours, and everything that makes a claim about a person says where the claim came from.
The 34th Hamptons International Film Festival runs October 2–12 with Wicker closing the program and conversations led by Amanda Seyfried, John Turturro, Jesse Eisenberg and Ron Howard. Its packed slate turns the East Coast stop into an awards-season meeting point for premieres, repertory screenings and filmmaker access.
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AMC has ordered an eight-episode continuation of Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 action film. It returns to the Ex-Presidents’ world more than three decades later, but no cast or firm premiere date has been announced.
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Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen and three fellow Regulators gathered at FAN EXPO Dallas nearly four decades after the 1988 Western. The rare reunion also put fresh attention on the quietly pending ‘Young Guns 3.’
Marcus Reid
Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan’s crime thriller lost business on its first Sunday, finishing below ₹12 crore worldwide. Even the competing estimates tell the same grim story.
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The director says Ajay Devgn’s final Drishyam film follows an original Hindi story, with Jaideep Ahlawat’s new cop pushing Vijay Salgaonkar into his most morally shadowed chapter. The film opens October 2, while Panorama Studios builds Korean, Spanish and English versions abroad.
Dorothy Kwan
The 49th Mill Valley Film Festival runs Oct. 1–11 with 94 features and 80 shorts from 45 countries. Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine opens, Peter Farrelly’s I Play Rocky anchors the middle, and Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut closes the festival.
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The Nollywood actor describes the mental strain of switching between tears, anger and laughter while playing a character with bipolar disorder. Her account offers a rare look at the work—and the cost—behind a demanding performance.
Marcus Reid
The actor’s blunt split between television and cinema has reopened an old hierarchy in Indian entertainment—then put his own television career right in the blast zone. His comments came during a Kindle Cast YouTube conversation reported on September 12, 2026.
Dorothy Kwan
The people who make films, away from the film: what they are working on, what they have said, where they have gone.
Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen and three fellow Regulators gathered at FAN EXPO Dallas nearly four decades after the 1988 Western. The rare reunion also put fresh attention on the quietly pending ‘Young Guns 3.’
Marcus Reid
The director says Ajay Devgn’s final Drishyam film follows an original Hindi story, with Jaideep Ahlawat’s new cop pushing Vijay Salgaonkar into his most morally shadowed chapter. The film opens October 2, while Panorama Studios builds Korean, Spanish and English versions abroad.
Dorothy Kwan
The Nollywood actor describes the mental strain of switching between tears, anger and laughter while playing a character with bipolar disorder. Her account offers a rare look at the work—and the cost—behind a demanding performance.
Marcus Reid
An argument the film world is having, explained — what happened, who is on which side, and what actually turns on it.
In an Esquire interview reported by TheWrap and GeekTyrant, Pitt argued that AI could lower visual-effects costs for mid-budget films while stopping short of endorsing synthetic actors. His own contract rule—own the scans, then destroy them—shows where his line sits.
Dorothy Kwan
Werner Herzog has dismissed the AI-generated documentary About a Hero as “phenomenally, abysmally stupid.” His broader argument is harsher: machines can replace formula, but formula is exactly what has hollowed out too much filmmaking.
Dorothy Kwan
Hollywood’s first AI actor says she is “not the enemy,” then stalls when CNN asks her to perform without a prompt. The exchange makes the sales pitch around Particle6’s film Misaligned look less like a revolution than a production workflow with a face.
Dorothy Kwan
The business of pictures: what got made, what it cost, what it took, and which festival said so.
The 34th Hamptons International Film Festival runs October 2–12 with Wicker closing the program and conversations led by Amanda Seyfried, John Turturro, Jesse Eisenberg and Ron Howard. Its packed slate turns the East Coast stop into an awards-season meeting point for premieres, repertory screenings and filmmaker access.
CinePixo
AMC has ordered an eight-episode continuation of Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 action film. It returns to the Ex-Presidents’ world more than three decades later, but no cast or firm premiere date has been announced.
CinePixo
Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan’s crime thriller lost business on its first Sunday, finishing below ₹12 crore worldwide. Even the competing estimates tell the same grim story.
CinePixo
How films are made — the camera, the cut, the score, the design — read closely on the films that show it best.
From CalArts to Sydney’s NIDA, leading programs pair hand construction with virtual production and gaming. Britain’s NFTS is adding a two-year course with Angels Costumes in January 2027, widening the field for screen designers.
Vera Lindqvist
In a Cinema Express interview published September 9, the cinematographer-editor explains how tighter lenses, mapped daylight and footage from trains, highways and sets built Bethlehem Kudumba Unit’s visual grammar. The film’s result is unseen here; what follows is a report of Sabu’s stated methods and the responses published by other outlets.
Vera Lindqvist
