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Apple TV+ unveiled the first images from its upcoming World War II drama, “Masters of the Air,” reuniting the award-winning team of Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman who also produced “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific,” “Masters of the Air” follows the true story of an American bomber group in World War II. The series will premiere on Apple TV+ on Friday, January 26, 2024 with two episodes, followed by one new episode every Friday through March 15, 2024...

Top professional funny people have weighed in on this week’s news that the annual Golden Globe awards have introduced two new categories, one of which will honor best performance in stand-up comedy on television. The live special format has reached global saturation and popularity thanks to streaming platforms, YouTube and social media. Six solo comics, or a breakout member of a troupe or ensemble, will duke it out for the prize for the first time on the Jan. 7 telecast...

Sony has decided to bring back movies to the gaming console in partnership with its studio arm. On Thursday, Sony Interactive Entertainment launched the Sony Pictures Core app (previously branded as Bravia Core on Bravia TVs and select Xperia devices) on PS5 and PS4 consoles. A key selling point: The app lets you stream HDR movies at up to 80 megabits per second — which Sony says provides picture quality “similar to 4K UHD Blu-ray” — and includes a large collection of Imax Enhanced titles. Sony Pictures Core offers up to 2,000 movies from Sony Pictures available to rent or buy. At launch, that includes “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “Uncharted,” “The Equalizer,” “No Hard Feelings,” “Bullet Train” and “Ghostbusters: Afterlife...

As revealed in a new memoir, “Every Man for Himself and God Against All” (the phrase served as the original title of his 1974 film “The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser”), Herzog’s far-ranging filmography represents only a fraction of the encounters and adventures that have shaped his worldview. Herzog isn’t intimidated by AI. “You can’t be naive, because in warfare, there will be very, very bad things coming at us,” he says. Indeed, he was intrigued enough by a high-concept project involving AI-generated poetry, “I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks,” that he agreed to record the audiobook for it. For lovers of Herzog’s distinct voice, he also narrates the audio versions of “Every Man for Himself” and “The Twilight World.” “For more than 40 years, I keep preaching to deaf ears that my poetry and my prose will probably outlive my films,”How do you signal to people in 30,000 years to read the signs? They will not read your language anymore.”...

Bob Berney, CEO of Picturehouse, John Sloss, founder and CEO of Cinetic Media, and Eugene Hernandez, director of the Sundance Film Festival and head of public programming on “Current and Future State of Independent Cinema” “It’s imperative for all of us to get behind reigniting the theatrical experience because I don’t think the streamers are ever going to be behind the new voices and independent films,” he said. “The only way to really get them out in the world is to put them in a theater where they can be reviewed and where they can sit long enough for word of mouth to really support them. That’s really the dangerous moment we are in, in terms of getting people back in the theaters.”...

Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos, the chair of the Academy Museum's board of trustees, rallied his fellow studio executives to bow out of attending the event. Meanwhile, actors could be sitting at tables that were paid for by studios they are striking against. A consultant retained by the Academy Museum is working with studios to make sure that the people the studios would have invited to sit at their table now receive invitations from the Academy Museum — and that the resulting guest lists do include actors. The Academy Museum’s director and president Jacqueline Stewart said that “given the particular circumstances this year, there will be no executives from struck companies in attendance” at this year’s Museum Gala...

Weeks after Taylor Swift announced a historic partnership with AMC Theaters to distribute an Eras Tour concert film — a move that sidestepped the Hollywood studios who typically distribute such projects and prompted the film industry to shuffle its October release calendar — Beyoncé could be gearing up to bring a similar project to the theater chain. The pop star is set to unveil a filmed presentation of her blockbuster Renaissance World Tour at AMC Theaters this December. Much like Swift’s arrangement with AMC, the deal would reportedly bypass conventional Hollywood distributors and allow the theater chain to distribute the film directly, with Beyoncé’s team receiving 50 percent of the box office receipts...