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Apple TV+ shared a first look of the upcoming third season of its critically acclaimed espionage drama, “Slow Horses,” starring Academy Award winner Gary Oldman. Adapted from “Real Tigers,” the third novel in the CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Mick Herron spy series "Slough House,” the six-episode third season of “Slow Horses" will premiere globally on Friday, December 1 with the first two episodes, followed by one new episode weekly, every Friday through December 29...

The SXSW Sydney festival has set a 75-film screening schedule for its first edition. The selection skews heavily towards music, but is also distinctly international. Headline titles include re-edited Talking Heads concert film “Stop Making Sense,” “Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles,” an exploration of iconic Australian musical act The Wiggles; drill rap documentary “Onefour: Against All Odds,” directed by Gabriel Gasparinatos; and the widely-acclaimed “Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus,” directed by Neo Sora. “The first ever SXSW Sydney Screen Festival aims to platform the most exciting new voices, new forms and new ways of creating on screen. We hope to inspire our audiences and industry, by unwrapping the future of screen innovation as it emerges,” said Ghita Loebenstein, the festival’s head of screen. “Like our Austin counterparts, our festival presents global programming from leading creators, and our unique offer is this distinctive Asia Pacific lens. We also thematically lean into our sister pillars across music, games and tech, celebrating where our forms and communities converge.”...

Every once in a while, Criterion will surprise its public with the announcement of a title that feels too recent. However, The Criterion Collection doesn’t hesitate to select recent titles as modern classics that deserve a spot in their world-famous curatorship. For their December titles, Criterion announced an animation that re-told one of the most famous childrens' stories, as well as indisputable cinema classics that collectors have come to expect from the brand. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio premiered on Netflix last December to overwhelmingly positive reviews. The unanimous take was that The Shape of Water director didn’t make the classic story darker just for the sake of being darker: The movie is a powerful tale of love, loss, fascism, and finding your own identity. As it is common with Criterion releases, the 2-disc edition of Pinocchio was supervised by its director and includes a bunch of bonus material, including a conversation with fantasy living legends Del Toro, Neil Gaiman (The Sandman) and Mark Gustafson (who co-directed Pinocchio). Another trademark of Criterion is restoring cinema masterpieces in order for them to be revisited by new and long-time cinephiles. In December, we’ll get to see the 4K restoration of Blast of Silence, a 1961 movie by director Allen Baron (Outside In). The raw yet beautiful depiction of New York City at Christmastime follows a hitman on assignment with the mission of killing a mob boss, but his mission gets hindered by some unexpected individuals....

This fall, the House of Mouse will be releasing the Disney Legacy Animated Film Collection, which collects 100 animated films from both Disney and Pixar, reaching as far back as "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and up through this summer's "Elemental" from Pixar. All of the movies come in a big three-volume set that unfolds in collectible storybooks. The Disney100 Blu-ray box set also includes the original theatrical poster art for every movie within the storybook, as well as a collectible lithograph from Disney Animation's all-new animated musical fantasy "Wish," a collectible crystal Mickey ears hat with exclusive Disney 100 engraving, and a certificate of authenticity. Plus, along with all of the physical Blu-ray discs, you'll get a digital copy of each movie too. The Disney Legacy Animated Film Collection will be available for pre-order only on Walmart.com beginning September 18, and the box set will actually be released on November 14. For 100 Disney and Pixar movies, you'll be paying $1,500. Yes, that's quite the steep pricetag, but that comes out to $15 per movie, which is fairly reasonable, even though many of these Blu-ray discs on their own cost a bit less than that...

Stephen Fry’s ‘Harry Potter’ AI Discovery Is a Warning for Hollywood. The legendary British icon of stage and screen, renowned for not just lending his voice to the entire Potter audiobook franchise but as a comic performer and acclaimed author, demonstrated how an AI, utilising a "flexible artificial voice," had the potential to threaten the job prospects of other voice actors, including himself. “I said not one word of that — it was a machine,” Fry told Fortune. “Yes, it shocked me. They used my reading of the seven volumes of the ‘Harry Potter’ books, and from that dataset, an AI of my voice was created and it made that new narration. “What you heard was not the result of a mash-up. This is from a flexible artificial voice, where the words are modulated to fit the meaning of each sentence. It could therefore have me read anything from a call to storm Parliament to hard porn, all without my knowledge and without my permission. And this, what you just heard, was done without my knowledge.”...

Several legendary directors and many brilliant newcomers will be screening their films and discussing them with audiences at the 11th Beyond Fest, where 55 movies will screen across 15 days. The festival runs from Sept. 26 to Oct. 10 in Los Angeles. James Cameron will be bringing what appears to be a director's cut version of his underrated masterpiece The Abyss, with 30 extra minutes added. This is one of the many holy grails of cinephiles, as the film has been long unavailable in any high quality transfer, and the director's cut has been discussed in hushed, quasi-mythical tones. Michael Mann will also be at Beyond Fest, screening and discussing his classic Hannibal Lecter film, Manhunter. Malcolm McDowell will be presenting "the ultimate cut" of his most infamous film (and that's including If... and Clockwork Orande), Caligula, and there will be a special screening of the full NC-17 version of David Cronenberg's twisted masterpiece, Crash. Legendary horror director, producer, and indie godfather Roger Corman will be in attendance as well; the 97-year-old master will be presenting his classic Vincent Price film, The Raven...

Rob Zombie's magnum opus, the cult horror favorite House of 1000 Corpses is coming to theaters this October, just in time for Halloween. The film, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, will be presented in theaters on October 8, and October 11, as a part of Fathom Events' Fright Fest lineup. Other films showing as a part of Fathom Events' Fright Fest include The Exorcist, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses marked Rob Zombie's directorial debut. The Fathom Events presentation of the film will include an exclusive featurette created by the film's creator Rob Zombie exclusively for Fathom Events. The Fathom Events presentation of House of 1000 Corpses will play on October 8, 2023, at 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM, and on October 11, 2023, at 7:00 PM local time at participating locations...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Friday the winners of its 50th annual Student Academy Awards. The 14 winners were chosen from a total of 2,443 entries from 720 colleges and universities around the world. Those who take home trophies at the student awards are eligible to compete at the following Oscars in the animated short film, life action short film or documentary short film categories. Past Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 67 Oscar nominations and have won 12 awards, with previous winners including Spike Lee, Pete Docter, Patricia Cardoso, Robert Zemeckis and Patricia Riggen...