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Apple TV removed The Hunt from its streaming slate last week after concerns were raised about plagiarism. The Hunt was originally supposed to premiere on Apple TV on December 3rd. However, Gaumont, the production company behind The Hunt, confirmed its removal from Apple's streaming schedule. "The broadcast of our series 'The Hunt' has been temporarily postponed," Gaumont tells Variety. "We are currently conducting a thorough review to address any questions related to our production. We take intellectual property matters very seriously." The French thriller follows Franck and a group of friends who encounter a hostile group of hunters while on a hunting trip....

Acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur delivered a stark warning to Hollywood studios and tech giants at WAVES Film Bazaar, declaring that artificial intelligence will trigger the collapse of traditional entertainment industry hierarchies and predicting that major corporations built on high entry barriers may not survive the transition. The director argued that AI drastically lowers entry barriers to filmmaking. "The best thing about AI is it's the most democratic technology. There is a $300 million film that can now be made in $300,000. If it's India, it can be made in $30,000," he said. Kapur predicted that major studios and large corporations will face collapse as AI democratizes content creation. He pointed to practical limitations already constraining traditional cinema: "In India, we have only 8,000 working screens. We keep talking about India as the greatest filmmaking nation in the world, but we have only 8,000 screens," he noted, adding that similar constraints exist in the U.K. and the U.S...

In creating the Victorian landscape of Edinburgh for Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein," , costume designer Kate Hawley collaborated with Deverell to help bring to life a color scheme that reflected Victor Frankenstein's (Oscar Isaac) state of mind as he gets expelled from the Royal College of Surgeons. The world of Edinburgh is cold and bitter, with small glimpses of color seen throughout the costumes of characters like Lady Elizabeth Harlander (Mia Goth). "Edinburgh is the color of wet cobblestone and the incredible stone buildings," said Deverell. "That was our color palette, and as we picked the locations of Gosford House, we had the color palette of the marble and the cream tones that were all these beautiful period tones." "Color serves as a sort of different role. All the time when I worked with Guillermo, the background is part of the environment in the world," Hawley said. "All those colors ended up in the colors of the background extras. We have a different language of color. There's also a beautiful tone of melancholy and mood. That affected how we did color." Color played a large part into creating the look of the Creature (Jacob Elordi), a monstrous creation that Victor creates in order to defy the odds and conquer death. By utilizing the look of different body parts and decaying corpses from the Crimean War, prosthetics designer Mike Hill collaborated with del Toro to amplify the look of the Creature to be accurate to the time period...

Kabuki drama "Kokuho" has made box office history, becoming the highest-grossing Japanese live-action film of all time in its home market. It surpassed the 22-year-old record set by "Bayside Shakedown 2" in 2003. The film has generated JPY17.4 billion ($111 million) in local revenue and sold more than 12.3 million tickets as of Nov. 24, according to Kogyo Tsushinsha, Japan's leading box office reporting service. After 172 days in theaters since its June 6 opening, the film now ranks No. 11 overall in Japanese box office history across all genres. Directed by Sang-il Lee and starring Ryo Yoshizawa, Ryusei Yokohama and Ken Watanabe, "Kokuho" is Japan's submission for best international feature at the 98th Academy Awards. Set in Nagasaki in 1964, the film follows 14-year-old Kikuo, who after his yakuza leader father's death, trains in kabuki theater alongside the son of a famous kabuki actor. The story spans decades as the two navigate their careers from acting school to major stages. The screenplay is written by Satoko Okudera, based on Shuichi Yoshida's novel, with music by Marihiko Hara. North American distributor GKIDS launched one-week qualifying runs in Los Angeles and New York on Nov. 14 and 21, respectively, generating sold-out screenings and an estimated cumulative gross exceeding $60,000 across both venues. Lee and Yoshizawa attended the screenings for Q&As on both coasts. GKIDS plans a wider North American theatrical release in early 2026. ...

"Three industry insiders have launched an app designed to serve as an Uber-like platform for connecting users with professional for content creators, video editors, producers and videographers. Social Agent matches experienced pros with people in need of creating a reel or a high-end document of any number of special events. The free Social Agent app went live on Apple's App Store in September after nine months of beta testing. The service plans to tap into the pool of experienced audio and video producers and techs who in are in the market for freelance work given the wide layoffs across the industry and the slowdown in TV and film production. The company also offers a service for editing and packaging raw footage uploaded by users. It's dubbed "You Upload, We Edit." Early traction in L.A. confirms the demand, and this is only the beginning...

Larry Ellison, one of Trump's most prominent financial supporters, owns a second-tier studio, Paramount, and is on the cusp of taking control of the great Warner legacy, with the giant library and sprawling production that come with it. The film producer Dallas Sonnier predicts "a wave of classically male-driven movies with mentally tough, traditional, courageous, confident heroes. Maybe even a tad cocky, but dedicated to honor and duty. Plus, of course, a few explosions, gun battles, helicopters, fistfights, and car chases!" Now, the president is offering some creative input on potential upcoming projects. Trump appears to want to revive the raucous comedies and action movies of the late 1980s to late 1990s. He's passionate, for instance, about the 1988 Jean Claude Van Damme sports flick Bloodsport the president of the United States has personally pressed the Paramount owner to revive another franchise from Ratner: Rush Hour, a buddy-cop comedy starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker that blended physical comedy, martial arts, and gags about racial stereotypes...