The business of pictures: what got made, what it cost, what it took, and which festival said so.
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Promise is making an AI-assisted horror film within sight of the lots where Singin' in the Rain was shot, on a budget in the low millions. The unsettling part of the reporting is not what the software can draw. It is the list of things the software makes unnecessary.
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Possible Love premieres in Venice competition on September 6, opens in Korean cinemas on September 23 and reaches Netflix on November 6. It is Lee Chang-dong's first film in eight years, and the order of those three dates is the most interesting decision anyone made about it.
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Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Joseph Quinn and Barry Keoghan have recreated the Abbey Road crossing for Sam Mendes' four-film Beatles project. The perfect replica is less interesting than the four competing memories around it.
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Disney has set Ryan Gosling's Ghost Rider for July 28, 2028. The date completes a striking three-film Marvel calendar, but the character will only matter if the studio lets a supernatural loner remain strange.
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Pixar's newly confirmed March 2028 original follows a fast-talking child into a North Shore lunch shop serving stranded spirits. Its promise is not that ghosts are new, but that the doorway is culturally and geographically specific.
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Marvel has confirmed the core cast for its May 2028 X-Men film, from Sadie Sink's Jean Grey to Adam Driver's Nathaniel Milbury. The smartest part of the lineup is that it asks new actors to inherit relationships, not imitate old performances.
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The Academy Museum will honor Colman Domingo, Charlize Theron and John Carpenter at its October gala. The stronger idea is already visible beyond the red carpet: put artists back in a room with audiences and the films that made their work matter.
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The 79th Edinburgh festival opens today built around Christine Vachon, Ken Burns, and a first Branagh award.
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Major theater owners are publicly divided over Paramount’s proposed Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition. Their disagreement is not simply about one merger—it is about whether promises of more movies can outweigh the leverage created by fewer studios.
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Crunchyroll and Sony have secured international distribution for Makoto Shinkai’s untitled eighth feature. The unusual order of announcements shows how anime’s global audience is changing the moment a film becomes an international event.
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Tom Holland’s new Spider-Man film reached $1.67 billion worldwide in ten days. The scale of the record matters, but so do the conditions that persuaded audiences to choose theaters again.
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Monica Bellucci is competing while Isabella Rossellini and James Gray draw crowds to the 79th Locarno Film Festival. The contrast reveals how a discovery festival can use celebrity without letting celebrity become the program.
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