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just plain cinema gems, Criterion surprised everyone today by announcing its first-ever collaboration with fan-favorite production company Pixar. One of the studio’s most celebrated titles, animated film Wall-E, was revealed as part of the November 2022 release slate of The Criterion Collection. The movie centers around a trash-compacting robot who is tasked with the ungrateful job of cleaning up Earth after humans made it uninhabitable. As per Criterion tradition, Wall-E will be released in a 4K UHD and Blu-ray special edition, with new and exclusive bonus material...

Bob Iger shared a pessimistic outlook on the future of movies and traditional TV in an interview Wednesday at the Code Conference in Los Angeles. He went so far as to say that the success of big streaming shows like “House of the Dragon” and “The Mandalorian” has led him to rethink some of the conventional wisdom he used to believe as true.“The movie industry used to argue that you couldn’t create cultural impact without people going to the movie theater around the globe that same weekend,” he said. “I don’t agree anymore. I probably made that argument at some point.” Another notion he was forced to rethink, he admitted, was the prospects for Apple TV+ to succeed as quickly as it has. “I was on the board of Apple when they decided to go into the streaming business of television and movies,” he said. “I thought it would take a long time. They’ve done better than I expected them to do because it wasn’t a business they were in at all.”...

The debt-laden Cineworld Group and its subsidiaries have commenced Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, the company revealed on Wednesday. The company, which owns Regal Cinemas in the U.S., said in a statement: “As part of the Chapter 11 cases, Cineworld, with the expected support of its secured lenders, will seek to implement a de-leveraging transaction that will significantly reduce the Group’s debt, strengthen its balance sheet and provide the financial strength and flexibility to accelerate, and capitalise on, Cineworld’s strategy in the cinema industry. The Group Chapter 11 Companies enter the Chapter 11 cases with commitments for an approximate $1.94 billion debtor-in-possession financing facility from existing lenders, which will help ensure Cineworld’s operations continue in the ordinary course while Cineworld implements its reorganization,” the statement added...

The Indian government is in talks with France’s Annecy Animation Film Festival to hold a local version of the festival in the country. Senior Indian bureaucrat Ravinder Bhakar, who serves as CEO of India’s Central Board of Film Certification and Children Films Society of India, MD of the National Film Development Corporation and director general of Films Division, revealed the development while speaking at a Focus on India panel discussion on Saturday. The Focus on India – Italy and India: Building a Common Audience panel was a special project of the DGCA (Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual) of MiC (Italy’s Ministry of Culture) at the Venice Film Festival...