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Ahead of the debut of Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” in theaters this Friday, October 20, last night Apple Original Films hosted the Los Angeles red carpet premiere for the widely celebrated film at the Dolby Theatre. The Los Angeles premiere of “Killers of the Flower Moon” follows global events in anticipation of the film held in Cannes, New York City, London and Mexico City...

The Wim Wenders Grant, funded by the film fund in Wenders’ home region of North Rhine Westphalia, hands out a total of €100,000 ($105,000) each year to a handful of projects to help get them off the ground. “46 projects have already been developed thanks to the grant, and 10 have had a cinematic release,” says Wenders’ niece, Hella. “We have a whole variety of projects: Web series, installations, 360-degree projects, 3D projects, fiction and documentary work. It’s wonderful to see this work develop and to see how they are part of a community – the grant provides these young, emerging filmmakers with a big networking platform.” The Foundation also sees its role as essential in promoting film education. With this goal in mind, it recently launched the first edition of A European School of Seeing, which brought together some 200 students from Berlin and Düsseldorf in a year-long teaching program that introduced them to six films selected by Wim Wenders himself...

The cinematic rendering of Swift’s epic stadium tour is only playing in theaters on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. This unconventional scheduling (most films are available on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, as well) may be chalked up to the unique nature of “The Eras Tour,” which is designed to feel more like a concert and less like a movie. By restricting showtimes to the weekends, Team Swift hopes there’s a better chance that audiences will be able to watch the concert extravaganza with a packed crowd rather than in the half-empty auditoriums that usually greet midweek moviegoers. In order to offset the reduced showtimes, exhibitors are trying to schedule as many screenings as they can comfortably stack in their multiplexes from Thursdays through Sundays...

Darren Aronofsky‘s Sphere film, “Postcard From Earth,” is responsible for establishing all kinds of historic cinematic firsts — like the fact that it is the only movie ever to be released in 18K resolution on a screen that spans 160,000 square feet. But movie buffs will particularly enjoy one first that doesn’t fully reveal itself until the very last 90 seconds or so of the 50-minute running time, in the massive Las Vegas dome where the film just premiered. The end credits begin appearing in the middle of the screen, as one would expect — or at least in what counts as the middle, if your field of vision is trained forward and not skyward. And then the credits expand out from there, bit by bit, until a substantial portion of the LED screen is filled by the entire list of names of people who worked on “Postcard From Earth,” all at once. And yes, in 18K resolution, all of those thousands of names are completely legible, as tiny as they might seem in the overall scheme — or Sphere — of things. “Postcard From Earth” is currently playing at the newly opened Vegas venue as the anchor of The Sphere Experience, on days when U2 does not have a performance booked in the dome in the evening...

Gwyneth Paltrow briefly entered the “nepo baby” discourse in January when she commented on an Instagram post of Hailee Bieber wearing a shirt with the moniker on it and wrote: “I might need a few of these.” Now Paltrow, the daughter of actor Blythe Danner and director/producer Bruce Paltrow and who is an Oscar winner in her own right, entered the discourse more forcefully by telling Bustle the term “nepo baby” is an “ugly moniker.“Now there’s this whole nepo baby culture, and judgment that exists around kids of famous people,” Paltrow said when her 19-year-old daughter Apple got brought up. “She’s really just a student, and she’s been very…She just wants to be a kid and be at school and learn. But there’s nothing wrong with doing or wanting to do what your parents do...

Chinese movie conglomerate Hengdian Films has inked a contract to fit Imax with Laser premium large format screen systems at 20 of its cinema locations. The order is the Imax’s largest recorded during the past four years. Hengdian Films is a pre-existing Imax client and the new deal will expand its Imax screen count to 27 when completed. The new laser screens will be located at Jingdezhen, Ulanqab and Zhangjiakou, all first-ever cities in China for Imax. Hengdian will also add Imax screens in new locations within Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Jiujiang, Hohhot and Yangzhou. Others have yet to be clarified. China is already Imax’s largest single market worldwide by screen numbers. At the end of 2022, it had 794 screens in operation. That compares with 441 in North America...

Netflix recently promised more data transparency for creators. “Part of our reason for not publishing (viewership data) early was part of our promise with creators,” Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said during its October 18 earnings call. “At the time we started creating original programs, our creators felt like they were pretty trapped in this kind of overnight ratings world and weekend box-office world defining their success and failures. And as we all know, a show might have enormous success down the road and it wasn’t captured in that opening box office.”...