On Oct. 7, when the Israel-Hamas war broke out, Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir was just one week away from starting principal photography in Bethlehem, 45 miles from Gaza, on “All Before You.” The Oscar-nominated filmmaker’s long-gestating project reconstructs the 1936 farmer-led revolt against British colonial rule...
The YNaija Nollywood 100 in collaboration with EbonyLife, is pleased to present our definitive list of the brightest talents in Nigeria’s film Industry. To gain this list, we worked with film critics, stakeholders and writer Iniabasi Jeffrey who have all contributed extensively to the film industry while remaining apart from...
Lilly Wachowski, one of the directors of "The Matrix" and "Speed Racer," has set her new film, "Trash Mountain," with comedian Caleb Hearon to star. The film follows a young gay man living in Chicago who returns to his hometown in Missouri following the death of his hoarder father....
Got a chance to watch #WesAnderson's latest, Asteroid City. He's one of those #directors (along with either/both of the #Cohen brothers) that I will watch anything he creates, without knowing anything about it.
He's got a distinctive #visual#style that gives him away, but #AsteroidCity reinforces my hypothesis that the thing that truly is his signature is that every single character in his #movies is #insane, and none of them know it, about themselves or each other.
Long long ago, he took the time to thoughtfully answer a couple of questions I asked him about film making. I was already a fan, but that definitely helped. #movies#Directors#JohnWoo#JoelKinnaman
“The idea of a superhero team, which it so brilliantly subverts, wasn’t yet a thing in movies,” Nolan said about Snyder’s 2009 Alan Moore graphic novel adaptation....
He employed several #women as #directors, was an early champion of depicting #race and politics realistically on screen, and helped more than 300 families leave #Nazi#Germany.
So there was one studio head then who wasn't a total scumbag like the rest, and now.
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In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles explains why the current Writers and Actors strike is really only mostly about the role AI will play in society. The crying in the universities has only just begun!
Here Justine Bateman’s thread lays out a case for why AI in entertainment must be addressed now, protections created or writers, actors and directors may not have a profession or career at all very soon. Writers Guild (WGA), SAG-AFTRA and the Directors Guild of America (DGA) are fighting for our professions to exist at all.
Screenshot of tweets by @JustineBateman • 2h Your digital image can be triple and quadruple booked, so that bodes well for a 10 percenter. 4/ 2. Films customized for a viewer, based on their viewing history, which has been collected for many years. Actors will have the option to have their image "bought out" to be used in anything at all. 5/ 3. Films "ordered up" by the viewer. For example, " want a film about a panda and a unicorn who save the world in a rocket ship. And put Bill Murray in it." 6/ 4. Viewers getting digitally scanned themselves, and paying extra to have themselves inserted in these custom films. 7/
Screenshot of tweets by @JustineBateman 5. Licensing deals made with studios so that viewers can order up older films like STAR WARS and put their face on Luke Skywalker's body and their ex-wife's face on Darth Vader's body, etc. 8/ 6. Training an Al program on an older hits TV series, and creating an additional season. FAMILY TIES, for example, has 167 episodes. An Al program could easily be trained on this, and create an eighth season. We only shot seven. 9/ Al has to be addressed now or never. I believe this is the last time any labor action will be effective in our business. If we don't make strong rules now, they simply won't notice if we strike in three years, because at that point they won't need us. 10/end Addendum: Actors, you must have iron-clad protection against the Al use of your image and voice in the SAG MBA or your profession is finished. Demand it from @sagaftra and do not accept any AMPTP proposal that does not have it.
#BlackHistory#Actors#Directors#Producer
Denzel Washington.I love all his movies.
But my favorite Malcolm X and Training Day
King Kong ain't got shit on me! I'll burn all this shit down😫
Malcolm X "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock
Plymouth Rock landed on Us
BFI: Where to begin with Mike Leigh (www.bfi.org.uk)
This BFI recommendations page offers "a beginner’s path through the hilarious and heart-wrenching tragicomic dramas of British director Mike Leigh".
Palestinian Directors Overseas Watch the War at Home — And Wrestle With Cinema’s Role in Conveying the Turmoil (variety.com)
On Oct. 7, when the Israel-Hamas war broke out, Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir was just one week away from starting principal photography in Bethlehem, 45 miles from Gaza, on “All Before You.” The Oscar-nominated filmmaker’s long-gestating project reconstructs the 1936 farmer-led revolt against British colonial rule...
YNaija unveils ‘The Nollywood 100’ - The Brightest Talent In Nigeria’s Film Industry in 2024 (ynaija.com)
The YNaija Nollywood 100 in collaboration with EbonyLife, is pleased to present our definitive list of the brightest talents in Nigeria’s film Industry. To gain this list, we worked with film critics, stakeholders and writer Iniabasi Jeffrey who have all contributed extensively to the film industry while remaining apart from...
Lilly Wachowski Sets Solo Feature Debut ‘Trash Mountain’ Starring Caleb Hearon (variety.com)
Lilly Wachowski, one of the directors of "The Matrix" and "Speed Racer," has set her new film, "Trash Mountain," with comedian Caleb Hearon to star. The film follows a young gay man living in Chicago who returns to his hometown in Missouri following the death of his hoarder father....
Christopher Nolan Calls Zack Snyder’s ‘Watchmen’ a Film ‘Ahead of Its Time’: It Should Have Been Released Post-‘Avengers’ (www.indiewire.com)
“The idea of a superhero team, which it so brilliantly subverts, wasn’t yet a thing in movies,” Nolan said about Snyder’s 2009 Alan Moore graphic novel adaptation....