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Idris Elba, who was just at the Venice Film Festival to present Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” is set to star in and direct a feature film adaptation of Neil Labute’s “This is How it Goes” for Apple Original Films, Variety can confirm. A tense, psychological thriller, Labute’s “This is How it Goes” tells the story of a couple who reconnect with an old school acquaintance – apparently randomly – and offer to take him in...

The lost 43 minutes of Orson Welles‘ “The Magnificent Ambersons” is the holy grail of cinema. The legend goes that after a bad test screening, RKO tacked on a happy ending and chopped the film from 131 minutes to 88. The missing minutes were melted for their silver nitrate, but cinephiles have spent years seeking a print that retained the the footage; TCM even sponsored a trip to Brazil in pursuit of a complete print. Like other efforts, Brazil didn’t pan out. Welles believed that the studio butchered a movie that would be seen as greater than his debut, “Citizen Kane,” Working with Brian Rose, who spent the last five years trying to recreate the film with charcoal drawings, physical models of the sets, and researching storyboards and screenplay drafts, Showrunner will spend next two years to get as close as possible to Welles’ vision. “Perhaps in its reconstructed form, we will all say, in the words of an audience card at the disastrous preview in Pomona that ended the film’s chances: ‘I think that this is the best picture that I have ever seen,’” Showrunner CEO Edward Saatchi said Showrunner will use AI keyframe generation for all major shots in “The Magnificent Ambersons,” using model motion and trajectory control to re-imagine Welles’ camera movements. Set photos of the lost 43 minutes will help generate the spatial setting. Some scenes will be filmed with live actors and the team will use AI face transfer, pose transfer, and voice generation. Showrunner also hired Tom Clive, an AI and digital artist on Robert Zemeckis’ “Here,” to power the film’s look...

So often, a search turns up bits of cinematic ephemera which even the filmmakers assumed gone forever. That's what happened to Steven Spielberg when viewing the new "Jaws: The Exhibition" exhibit at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles. By his own admission, Spielberg was shocked to discover that someone had kept the ocean buoy from the opening scene of the movie, and that it had thus survived 50 years later to be used as part of the exhibition. As it turned out, the prop's savior was Lynn Murphy, a Martha's Vineyard resident that helped the "Jaws" crew with some of their shooting on the water back in 1974. While "Jaws: The Exhibition" contains numerous bits of props, notes, storyboards, camera equipment and memorabilia from the making of "Jaws," this buoy is particularly emblematic of how the film beat the odds of its famously harrowing shoot, and became one of the greatest and most influential movies of all time.

AMC is the biggest movie theater chain in the world. As such, it is an enormously important part of the overall ecosystem that supports the movie business as we know it. That's why it might come as a surprise that they didn't play "KPop Demon Hunters," which recently made $19.2 million at the box office in just two days, topping the charts on one of the final weekends of the summer in a major surprise. On a recent episode of "The Town" podcast, AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron discussed the chain's decision to not play "KPop Demon Hunters," in addition to other Netflix movies that occasionally arrive in theaters for a brief time. In this case, it was a two-day-only, sing-along event. In other cases, it's brief engagements just ahead of a film's streaming release. For Aron, though, that's the issue...

On September 8, 2025, a new "Star Trek" series launched, and no one noticed. There were no previews, no ads, and only a very, very brief mention of it way, way at the bottom of a Paramount press release. The show is not available on Paramount+, where most of the "Star Trek" franchise lives, nor has it been licensed to Netflix (the way "Star Trek: Prodigy" was). It can only be found on YouTube. But even then, it's not on the official YouTube "Star Trek" channel, nor does it have a channel of its own. Rather, it exists on the YouTube channel for the Canadian animated series "Blaze and the Monster Machines," a show about anthropomorphic monster trucks who solve math problems. "Star Trek: Scouts" is an animated series for toddlers. Its character design is round and approachable, and the "Star Trek" gadgets are all colorful and kid-friendly, looking like Fisher Price toys. Each episode is only about four minutes long, and the conflicts are of the gentlest nature. The main characters are three five-year-olds who live in some kind of planet-bound observation station and have been left to operate it, unattended. They have three pets, including a Klingon targ named Bubbles, a horned dog named Zips, and a turtle-like creature named Star. The animals resemble the big-eyed stuffies put out by Ty Toys...

Insight Editions is set to publish The Art & Making of Frankenstein: Written & Directed by Guillermo del Toro, the official companion book to the filmmaker’s Frankenstein movie, which is receiving a limited theatrical release Oct. 17 before hitting Netflix Nov. 7.The book features a foreword by Del Toro and an introduction by Isaac, who plays Victor Frankenstein. The hardcover goes on sale Oct. 28 and will retail for $75.00. There will also be two limited collector editions that will come later in the year, Frankenstein: Portfolio Edition and Frankenstein: Artifact Edition....

Despite Warner Bros. Discovery‘s recent institution of a password-sharing crackdown at HBO Max, the streamer is actually going to let you off the hook on that one for now. “We haven’t been pushing on the password sharing and the economics yet,” Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said during the Goldman Sachs Communacopia and Technology conference Wednesday. “People are really starting to love HBO Max. That’s the key. We want them to fall in love with our content, with our series, with the differentiated offering outside the U.S. and then over time, it’s a little tricky, with the password sharing, we’re going to begin to push on that...