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Apple TV+ t shared a new teaser trailer highlighting Apple Original series and films that will make their global debut on Apple TV+ in the coming months. The teaser features newly released footage, and a glimpse at the upcoming comedies, the biggest dramas and the brightest stars across Apple Original titles including “Platonic,” “The Crowded Room,” “Swagger” season two, “Hijack,” “The Afterparty” season two, “Foundation” season two, “Stephen Curry: Underrated,” “Lessons in Chemistry,” “Masters of the Air,” “Sugar,” “The Morning Show” season three, “The Beanie Bubble,” “Flora and Son,” “Loot” season two, “Palm Royale,” and more...

Ken Jacobs is now immortalized as a Museum of Modern Art filmmaker. The experimental Brooklyn-based filmmaker will now have a large collection at the Manhattan museum, making MoMA the singular repository of works of the moving-image artist. Jacobs, who turned 90 on May 25, devoted his seven-decade career to the aesthetic, social, and physiological critique of projected images that he manipulates across formats....

Top Gun: Maverick was already the biggest movie of Tom Cruise’s career by just about every conceivable metric. It set box office records making it not only the biggest movie of the year but the biggest movie of Cruise’s career. And somehow the movie is still setting box office records, because it’s actually still in theaters...

some of film's most iconic and transformative visuals. The opening credits effect, known professionally and colloquially as “digital rain,” instantly set a mood for the Wachowski Sisters’ apocalyptic techno-thriller without saying a word. The Matrix production designer Simon Whiteley went back to the drawing board after the Wachowskis requested a title sequence redesign. Whiteley's wife is Japanese, and he turned to her for advice — and, eventually, to her cookbook collection. Whiteley modeled the digital rain on Japanese typography and lifted the code straight out of that same cookbook. "I like to tell everybody that The Matrix's code is made out of Japanese sushi recipes," Whiteley reveals...

An upcoming massive auction will have an estimated 1,400 pieces of movie history up for bidding. There'll be some things that will sell in what could be considered an affordable range (a couple thousand or less) for someone with some savings burning a hole in their pocket, but the big ticket items are expected to fetch hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars."If there's anything that makes me hope and wish and pray to win the Powerball, it's a good movie prop auction. I'm not a fancy car guy and first class is nice and all, but I know myself well enough to know my capitalist vices. If I ever had millions in the bank, the temptation to spend ridiculous amounts of money on pieces of movie history would be too much to ignore, especially when it comes to the heavily nostalgic stuff that comes up for auction from time to time. There is not a single person of my general age that wasn't traumatized by that damn clown from "Poltergeist," for instance, and for the price of a brand new house you can own it for real!" (Courtesy Eric Vespe)...

Wim Wenders, whose immersive 3D portrait of artist Anselm Kiefer, “Anselm,” had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival as a Special Screening, is a passionate advocate of the 3D format, which he believes engages the human brain in ways that 2D fails to do. In 3D, your whole brain is aflame,” he tells Variety. “Parts of your brain are working to establish the space – which is something you’re doing yourself: you get two separate images on the screen and your brain is putting them together, just like you do in life with your two eyes. So, your brain is enormously active, but other parts of your brain are active as well – you are emotionally more involved as you are more ‘there’...

A group of U.K. actors have now launched a set of revised self-tape guidelines in a bid to raise awareness of a model they say is broken and inequitable. The collective argues that self-taping requirements rob actors of the in-studio learning experience and feedback from directors. Under the new guidelines, actors should receive a full script rather than small excerpts; know how many other tapes are being submitted; get sufficient time to deliver their materials; and have transparency on where their tapes will end up...