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Apple TV+ released the official trailer for “Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker,” the new two-part documentary event from Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney. The docuseries explores every aspect of the man who became a tennis sensation after winning The Wimbledon Championships at the age of just 17, going on to win 49 career titles, including six Grand Slams and an Olympic gold medal, as well as his high-profile, sometimes tumultuous personal life...

Applications are now open for The Gotham Film & Media Institute’s (formerly IFP, and Filmmaker‘s publisher) annual Gotham Week Project Market. The overarching Gotham Week event takes place between September 16-22, and the Project Market will be held from September 18-22. This year’s programming will consist of in-person events in New York City as well as virtual offerings. The Project Market connects new documentary and fiction projects in various stages of production with industry executives looking to develop, finance or distribute works across mediums, whether they be audio, feature-length film or episodic works. In addition to pitching and receiving feedback, attendees often develop long-spanning professional relationships with distributors, financiers, production companies, festival programmers, sales and talent agents, collaborators and others...

The Writer’s Guild of America may let Artificial Intelligence tools such as ChatGPT be used in scriptwriting as long as writers still get full credit for the resulting script. According to the WGA proposal, AI-generated scripts couldn’t be considered “source material” or “literary material.” These are fundamental terms in any WGA agreement, as “literary material” encompasses anything a writer produces, including stories, treatments, screenplays, and dialogue. Likewise, “source material” refers to previously existing material, such as books and magazines, that can be adapted into screenplays. So, if artificial intelligence cannot produce either, studios still need a human writer to credit, regardless of how much the human writer polished the script created by an AI tool...

This year, the iconic film and television review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes turns 25 and to celebrate, the site is letting fans in on the fun with its RT25 event. To kick things off, Cryptozoic collaborated with the site to create a fast-paced card-based party game that will test the knowledge of any movie buff out there, and it's available now. Rotten Tomatoes: The Card Game invites up to 20 players to rank some of the most iconic, beloved, and potentially divisive films of all time by what they believe their score is on the Tomatometer. Players are given three cards to start with each featuring a major movie like Raiders of the Lost Ark or Skyfall that they will rank from highest to lowest score. From there, players will keep drawing cards for opponents to their right in order to quiz them on where the film falls in their lineup of films according to its Tomatometer score. There are also wild cards that add a little chaos by asking all players to test their knowledge of titles, release years, and other trivia related to the film they're given. In total, the set contains 350 different movie cards and 35 wild cards with unique questions for film fans...

Speaking at a live talk with Moshiry in Copenhagen, Wenders told the mostly young audience how his sense of place has informed his filmmaking from the beginning, and offered a word of advice. “Don’t think this doesn’t concern you. It’s a human sense that used to be necessary for survival – to know where to live, where there was danger, adding that if he were given a lot of money to make a film where all the locations had been pre-selected by someone else, he would turn it down. “I wouldn’t know where to put my camera: I’d be lost. I work the other way round: I chose the place first, and then I start to write the story, where to find food and water....

Bleecker Street, the Oscar-nominated studio behind “Captain Fantastic” and “Trumbo,” has partnered with New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) to award three scholarships to women attending film schools in the New York City area. The grants are part of NYWIFT’s scholarship fund and will assist with educational costs associated with film production, living expenses, books, travel and tuition needs. Bleecker Street’s contribution will be officially acknowledged at NYWIFT’s upcoming Muse Awards...

Bernardo Rondeau, senior director of film programs for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, is exiting to take a similar job as curator of film programs at the under-construction Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in downtown Los Angeles. The Lucas Museum is set to open by 2025. The New York Times reported recently that the museum would include two 299-seat theaters and 100,000 drawings, photographs and comic book illustrations in the massive, futuristic-looking building under construction in Exposition Park, near USC...