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Shanghai Film Fest Launches Tech Unit, Reveals AI Industry Push
The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival opened on June 12 with the launch of a new Technology Creation and Fabrication Unit and a parallel press conference for the Shanghai High-Tech Films and Televisions City, held in the city's Songjiang…
Old films that badly predicted the future...
Please or to access all these features Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting. Currently watching T2;judgement day. The terminators have come back from 2029. Not sure we're at time…
'Disclosure Day' Eyes $42.5 Million Opening As Spielberg Film Defies Pre-Release Projections
Steven Spielberg's new alien thriller, 'Disclosure Day,' is significantly outperforming box office expectations, projected to gross $42.5 million domestically by Sunday. This strong opening would secure its place as the director's fifth-biggest…
Line of Duty star Martin Compston injured as he's shot while filming new series
Line of Duty star Martin Compston was accidentally injured while filming the seventh series of the hit TV show. The cast including Vicky McClure, who plays Kate Fleming, have been filming in Northern Ireland after a five-year hiatus. According to…
17 Movie Plot Holes And Inconsistencies That People Say Ruin The Whole Film
'It breaks its own rules and logic in order to move the plot forwards. Ashton Kutcher's character transports his consciousness back in time to his kid self and impales his hands on some pencils at school as a kid in order to make scars appear on…
Spielberg's ailen film Disclosure Day could be 'cursed,' priest says
A Tennessee Roman Catholic priest is making a wild claim that “demons can be attached” to movies in response to comments from Steven Spielberg on his new alien film “Disclosure Day.” Spielberg, the famed filmmaker behind…
Michelle Yeoh, Tony Leung Lead Shanghai Film Festival's Star-Studded Opening
The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival launched Saturday at the city's Grand Theatre, drawing a constellation of Chinese-language stars to its opening red carpet and centering its ceremony on cinema's human core rather than the geopolitical…
'A movie for everyone, not just Drag Race fans': stars of drag comedy Stop! That! Train! on making the summer's funniest film
Drag queens are never more striking than when they're set against an everyday background. “Kristen Stewart is a buoy … ” the Laotian American beauty Jujubee muttered spacily to herself in the hallway of Bleecker Street Media's…
The Thai LGBTQ+ films you need to watch now
1985 cast: Somying Daorai, Jirawadee Isarangkul Na Ayudhaya 2006 cast: Aisawanya Amm Areyawattana, Wacharakorn Waiyasin, Nirut Sirichanya Rare is the film so significant that the same director returns two decades later to remake it with a new…
Zhang Disha's Sci-Fi 'The Decisive Moment' to Close Shanghai Film Festival
“ The Decisive Moment,” a sci-fi feature directed by Zhang Disha and produced by Huang Jianxin, will world premiere as the closing film of the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival on June 21, screening at Shanghai Film Art Center…
Gore Verbinski Says We Need a 'Rating System' for AI Use in Films: 'If You Use AI to Write a Script, You Get an F'
American director Gore Verbinski, who is at the Taormina Film Festival in competition with “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die,” spoke about the challenges of labelling the use of AI in films as the technology continues to grow…
From 'Toxic' to '666 Operation Dream Theatre', films to watch out for from Kannada cinema
The Kannada film industry has had a quiet 2026. It needs a remarkable turnaround to end the year on a positive note. The Hindu looks at some of the films to watch out for and puts the spotlight on big films such as ‘Toxic', ‘666…
10 Years, 10 Movies: The Best Anime Films Released Since 2016
Anime has never been better and more mainstream than it has been in the past decade; whether by coincidence or by design, the visual and narrative quality of anime has reached heights many people likely thought would be impossible, and with…
Italy's 'King of Cashmere' Brunello Cucinelli on Taking Giuseppe Tornatore's Docufilm About His Life to the Shanghai Film Fest: 'It Can Connect With the Chinese Mindset'
After premiering at Rome's Cinecittà Studios and Lincoln Center in New York, Oscar winner Giuseppe Tornatore ‘s docudrama, “Brunello: The Gracious Visionary” – about Brunello Cucinelli, the fashion designer known…
Alien sharks' filmed for the first time ever by researchers in their natural habitat
A rare species of shark described as 'ridiculously horrendous' and alien-like has been captured on camera for the first time. Anyone even the remotest bit familiar with the ocean knows there are some seriously unique, unusual and downright…
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