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Based on the popular and award-winning app “Sago Mini World,” season three of the gratitude-focused series premieres globally Friday, November 22 on Apple TV+ Produced by Daytime Emmy Award-nominated Spin Master Entertainment and animated by 9 Story Media Group’s Emmy Award-winning studio Brown Bag Films Toronto, the “Sago Mini Friends” series is based on the charming characters and artful designs featured in the award-winning Sago Mini World app developed by Sago Mini. ...

Tom Hanks said on the latest episode of the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that he’s never had a meeting with Kevin Feige about joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe, nor has he broken bread with James Gunn to talk about the new DC Universe. With that said, Hanks has never had any issues with comic book movies over the years. Although he is noticing now that audiences seem to be moving on from VFX-enhanced comic book spectacle in favor of genuine storytelling. “Remember in the 1970s and ’80s they tried to do TV version of Captain America and Spider Man? Even Batman, the Adam West one. The technology did not exist to make it look like it did in the comic books and now it does,” Hanks said. “You can do anything at all. You can probably say Christopher Reeve’s Superman was the first one that came close because of the cutting edge of the technology to allow for wire removal. We all believed [a man could fly] when we saw it. It was quite extraordinary....

The 68th BFI London Film Festival had the event’s highest in-person attendance in 10 years. Across 12 days of screenings in London, the festival welcomed 230,342 guests, an 18% increase from last year’s edition. For 49% of those who booked tickets to events, it marked their first time at London Film Festival. In addition, the occupancy across in-person events and screenings increased to 92% from last year’s 90%. Over 815 filmmakers, XR artists and creatives from around the world presented work at the festival, and its industry forum had 3,000 delegates...

From the 1950s, huge productions have rolled in Spain, or were directly produced from there by Samuel Bronson – “El Cid,” “The Fall of the Roman Empire.” In modern times, Ridley Scott shot “1492” and multiple scenes of The Kingdom of Heaven” (2004) as well as “Exodus: Gods and Kings” (2014) in Spain. Warner Bros.’s “Clash of the Titans” (2009) and “Wrath of the Titans” rolled in the Canary Islands, Jonathan Glazer’s “Sexy Beast” (1999) lensed on Andalusia’s Costa del Sol.  Russell Crowe starrer “The Last Druid” must rate as one of the highest-profile projects being brought to market at this week’s American Film Market. Its partners – Range Media Partners, Spain’s Nostromo, CAA Media Finance and AGC International – are aiming to shoot in Spain. Norman Reedus, star of  AMC Networks “The Walking Dead: Darryl Dixon” was besieged by fans late August as he shot Season 3 in Madrid, which looks set to double for London,  double-decker red bus with signage for Trafalgar Square being caught on video cruising central Madrid streets. Guy Ritchie filmed Henry Cavill starrer “In the Grey” for 35 days in Spain’s Canary Island of Tenerife last year, having also shot part of “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” in the country. Led by “Game of Thrones’” Sean Bean, “This City is Mine,” produced by Left Bank Pictures for BBC One, shot in Marbella over March, April and early May. “Venom: The Last Dance,” with Tom Hardy, spent $39 million lensing in Spain, partly at re-opened mega studios Ciudad de la Luz...

Summer blockbusters like “Deadpool & Wolverine” and “Twisters” weren’t enough to keep AMC Entertainment from posting a $20.7 million loss during its most recent quarter. It compared unfavorably to the $12.3 million in profit that the world’s largest theater chain posted in the year-ago period. At the same time, revenue at AMC fell 4.1% to $1.3 billion, down from the $1.4 billion that AMC reported in the year-ago period, which saw the dual releases of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” a double-billing that turbocharged the box office and inspired the portmanteau “Barbenheimer.”....

It’s a question of priorities, and the 30 or so employees at the Academy Film Archive have been nervous for a while. They’ve seen where the energy is going ever since Bill Kramer moved over from the Academy Museum to run parent organization the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Under his purview is the non-profit 501C3 Academy Foundation, which runs the Museum, the archive, and the Margaret Herrick Library. Kramer has been restructuring the Academy for some time now. For example, he merged the communications and marketing teams for all the sections of the Academy, and October 30 saw the exit of sixteen employees, some 2 percent of 800 total. The goal for the new Academy Collection and Preservation Department is to align operations and avoid duplicating efforts. Fourteen cuts were on the Archive and Library side, two from the museum collection staff....