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psychologytoday.com - Kendall  Morgan M.F.A., M.A. - 4 Reasons to Trade TikTok for a Feature Film
4 Reasons to Trade TikTok for a Feature Film
Psychology Today –

A review of 71 studies links heavy short-form video use to poorer attention, mood, and sleep. How intensely you engage with short videos may matter more than how often you open the app. Getting absorbed in one long story may help you practice…

deadline.com - Melanie Goodfellow - UK Submits 'Rehearsals For A Revolution' For International Film Oscar
UK Submits 'Rehearsals For A Revolution' For International Film Oscar
Deadline –

The UK has selected Pegah Ahangarani's Rehearsals For A Revolution as its entry to the Best International Feature Film category of the 99th Academy Awards. The film explores Iranian filmmaker Ahangarani's experience of exile as she rebuilds her…

variety.com - Rafa Sales Ross - 'Rio,' 'Ice Age' Director Carlos Saldanha on 'Wonderful Homecoming' With Ambitious Brazilian Adventure Film '100 Days': 'It Deserved a Big Cinema Treatment'
'Rio,' 'Ice Age' Director Carlos Saldanha on 'Wonderful Homecoming' With Ambitious Brazilian Adventure Film '100 Days': 'It Deserved a Big Cinema Treatment'
Variety –

It might have taken pioneering explorer Amyr Klink one hundred days to cross the Atlantic, but it took Carlos Saldanha almost three thousand to bring his story to the big screen. After nearly a decade working on the epic, the “Ice…

deadline.com - Damon Wise - Deadline's Contenders Film: London 2026: Lineup, Panelists, More
Deadline's Contenders Film: London 2026: Lineup, Panelists, More
Deadline –

Try telling Londoners that cinema is dead and they will direct you to the BFI Imax cinema on the Southbank, where Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is still playing to sold-out houses nearly three months after its release. But if you've been there…

variety.com - Naman Ramachandran - Netflix Romance 'Love Untangled' Director Namkoong Sun on Netflix Freedom and the Funding and Distribution Gap in Korean Indie Film
Netflix Romance 'Love Untangled' Director Namkoong Sun on Netflix Freedom and the Funding and Distribution Gap in Korean Indie Film
Variety –

Namkoong Sun, director of Netflix 's Korean romance “ Love Untangled,” said her first commercial feature felt little different from her independent films once cameras rolled, apart from the scale. The freedom, she added, came with…

ign.com - The Future, Sadly, Is Now in Soylent Green, the Classic Sci-Fi Film That Just Got an Arrow Video Release
The Future, Sadly, Is Now in Soylent Green, the Classic Sci-Fi Film That Just Got an Arrow Video Release
IGN –

It's the United States of the 2020s. Climate change has created a perpetual heat wave, pollution has contaminated the air, and overpopulation combined with the consolidation of wealth and power in the hands of a select and self-interested few has…

express.co.uk - Peter Harris - 'One of the best' horror films leaves Netflix fans breathless
'One of the best' horror films leaves Netflix fans breathless
Daily Express –

All horror fans should check the film out Horror fans are being encouraged to watch a 'twisted' film that has viewers on the edge of their seats. The film, Hush, is presently streaming on Netflix and was helmed by Mike Flanagan, who has…

thoughtcatalog.com - January Nelson - Adam Sandler Filmed a Grown Ups 3 Scene with a Naked Extra on a Nudist Beach in Sardinia
Adam Sandler Filmed a Grown Ups 3 Scene with a Naked Extra on a Nudist Beach in Sardinia
Thought Catalog –

The gag has Adam Sandler sitting inside a bright yellow taxi on a Sardinian nudist beach as a completely naked extra walks up to the car. That's the scene the Grown Ups 3 unit shot this week on the Costa Smeralda, where Netflix's third film in the…

variety.com - Ophélie Surcouf - Vietnamese Horror 'Arithmadtic' Leads Bee Entertainment's Busan Market Slate, With New Film From 'The Corpse' Director
Vietnamese Horror 'Arithmadtic' Leads Bee Entertainment's Busan Market Slate, With New Film From 'The Corpse' Director
Variety –

Psychological horror “Arithmadtic,” set in an elite international school, leads a genre-heavy slate that Vietnam's Bee Entertainment is presenting to buyers at Busan's Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM). Vietnamese films grossed more…

eonline.com - Florence Pugh, Finn Cole Make Marvelous Red Carpet Debut at 2026 BFI London Film Festival
Florence Pugh, Finn Cole Make Marvelous Red Carpet Debut at 2026 BFI London Film Festival
E! Online –

Watch: Florence Pugh Shares Rare Update About Dating Finn Cole It's a brand new day for Florence Pugh and Finn Cole 's budding romance. After all, the East of Eden star and Peaky Blinders actor made their red carpet debut at the world premiere of…

ign.com - Brad Bird's Ray Gunn Takes Viewers Back to the Future With This Fun Animated Love Letter to Film Noir and Retro Sci-Fi
Brad Bird's Ray Gunn Takes Viewers Back to the Future With This Fun Animated Love Letter to Film Noir and Retro Sci-Fi
IGN –

Ray Gunn opens in select theaters on December 4 and arrives on Netflix on December 18. The film premiered on October 10 at the London Film Festival. A 30-odd-year passion project for director Brad Bird, Ray Gunn is a nifty sci-fi/film noir mashup…

variety.com - K.J. Yossman - Brad Bird on Why He Took 'Ray Gunn' to Skydance Instead of Pixar: Making Animated Films for Teens and Adults 'Shouldn't Be a Controversial Decision'
Brad Bird on Why He Took 'Ray Gunn' to Skydance Instead of Pixar: Making Animated Films for Teens and Adults 'Shouldn't Be a Controversial Decision'
Variety –

On a balmy April afternoon at Abbey Road Studios in London, a 74-piece orchestra comprised of violinists, cellists, flautists and even an organ-payer, is packed into Studio One. The iconic room, which has hosted musical legends from Edward Elgar to…

thehindu.com - Shilpa Anandraj - Dance through a lens: How films become archives of movement and performance
Dance through a lens: How films become archives of movement and performance
The Hindu –

Dance has always been among India's most visible art forms. Yet for all its richness, much of its history remains poorly documented. Performances disappear once the curtain falls, and generations of work survive through memory, oral histories and…

variety.com - Naman Ramachandran - AI Can Cut Film Budgets by Up to 40%, Says 'The Outlaws' Director Kang Yoon-sung, as Netflix Reveals Use on 300 Titles: 'A Human Touch Is Absolutely Essential'
AI Can Cut Film Budgets by Up to 40%, Says 'The Outlaws' Director Kang Yoon-sung, as Netflix Reveals Use on 300 Titles: 'A Human Touch Is Absolutely Essential'
Variety –

Netflix has used AI in one form or another on some 300 of its titles, Lee Sung-gyun, the streamer's senior director of APAC production, told an audience at the Busan International Film Festival. On the same panel, “The Outlaws”…

indianexpress.com - Entertainment Desk - Made on Rs 2.5 crore budget, Kannada film Premada Oorali earns 17 times its cost in 16 days
Made on Rs 2.5 crore budget, Kannada film Premada Oorali earns 17 times its cost in 16 days
The Indian Express –

3 min read New Delhi Make us preferred source on Google Kannada film Premada Oorali, reportedly made on a budget of just Rs 2.5 crore, has emerged as a box-office success, earning more than 17 times its production cost in gross collections within…

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