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Winterton man jailed for sexually assaulting and filming teenager
Stuart HarrattEast Yorkshire & Lincolnshire A man has been jailed for nine years for sexually abusing a teenage girl and secretly filming her getting undressed. David Rudkin, 57, was arrested in 2019 when the victim made a complaint to police…
Absolute trash' Netflix remake overtakes The Crash as top film
Netflix viewers can't get enough of the streamer's latest film despite its reviews. The streaming giant's latest release has caught the attention of fans so much it has managed to overtake hit documentary The Crash. That true crime doc, which…
Meet Megan Lawless, who plays Sarah in the hit horror film Obsession
Obsession is the internet's latest, well, obsession. Twenty-six-year-old director Curry Barker's hit horror film, starring Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Megan Lawless and others, had a budget of less than US$1 million, but has grossed an…
Nolte: First AI Feature Film Cost $500K… And It Is the Future
The 95-minute action-fantasy movie Hell Grind cost $500,000 to produce in 15 weeks and screened in Cannes. Please note the use of the term “in Cannes” and not “at Cannes.” Hell Grind did not screen at the Cannes Film…
How an indie horror film became a box-office 'Obsession'
Curry Barker, a 26-year-old YouTuber-turned-filmmaker, made his horror film “Obsession” in just 20 days on a mere $750,000 budget. Now, after its second weekend in theaters, the Focus Features-distributed movie is on track to earn…
Toronto Film Fest Sets Christopher Nolan Retrospective
Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan is getting a career retrospective this summer from the Toronto Film Festival. TIFF will have 12 Nolan features, from Oppenheimer and Dunkirk to Tenet and Interstellar, fill its Lightbox theaters in July and…
Peek Into IBM's System/360 With Vintage Training Film
Computing goes hand-in-hand with how to structure and access data, and this internal training film from IBM regarding file organization and data processing with System/360 is from a time when such decisions were crucial to system architecture. The…
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Pratilipi's Double Tap Films signs multi-country TikTok partnership
Double Tap Films, the microdrama studio of Pratilipi, an Indian language storytelling platform, announced a pioneering deal with TikTok to distribute 21 of the homegrown studio's original Indian microdrama shows across four international markets:…
'Toy Story 5' Filmmakers on Aging Woody and Why Lilypad Isn't the Film's Villain
SPOILER WARNING: This story discusses plot details for “ Toy Story 5.” Pixar's “Toy Story 5” doesn't open until June 19, but fans are clamoring for every snippet released by the studio. Beloved toys Buzz Lightyear…
A new test could flag people at risk for anemia by filming their eyeballs - no needles required
Researchers have developed a system that uses short videos of the eye to estimate a person's levels of red blood cells — no needles required. The technology, described in a paper published April 8 in the journal npj Digital Medicine…
Tamil Nadu CM Vijay Permits All Theatres To Screen 5 Shows Per Day For New Films In First Week
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister S Joseph Vijay issued an order to permit all theatres across the state to screen five shows per day for seven days from the date of release of new Tamil films. According to the statement, the representatives of the film…
Pawel Pawlikowski & Ruben Östlund Set For Croatia's Slano Film Days
Pawel Pawlikowski and Ruben Östlund are among the names that will attend this year's Slano Film Days in Croatia. Pawlikowski will present his latest feature, Fatherland, at the event. Fatherland debuted last week at the Cannes Film Festival…
Documentary Market CoPro 28 Returns With Diverse Slate Including Films About OnlyFans Creator, Injured Rhino, Druze Autonomy and Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue
CoPro 28, Israel's leading documentary market, is set to take place next month in Tel Aviv in a hybrid online and in-person format. Participants can expect a breadth of projects, ranging from documentaries about Israel's most famous OnlyFans…
Films Are More Likely to Star a Man Named Chris or a Talking Animal Than an Older Woman, According to Study
A new study out of the United Kingdom found that out of the top films from the past three years at the U.K. box office, movies are more likely to feature a lead actor named Chris than a female lead actor over the age of 60. The Age Without Limits…
Philippines Revamps Academy To Bolster Oscars Campaigns & Film Worker Protections
The Film Academy of the Philippines is being revamped to strengthen its core missions of campaigning for Philippine cinema at the Oscars and other awards ceremonies, as well as protecting film workers' rights. Headed by filmmaker Paolo Villaluna…
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