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Apple TV unveiled the premiere date and a first look at season two of "Women in Blue" ("Las Azules"), its Spanish-language crime drama featuring an entirely Latin American cast and crew led by Ariel Award nominee Bárbara Mori ("Perdidos en la Noche"). Created by International Emmy Award-winning showrunner and director Fernando Rovzar ("Monarca") and Pablo Aramendi ("Tijuana"), "Women in Blue" season two will make its global debut with the first episode on Wednesday, August 12, 2026 on Apple TV, followed by one episode weekly through September 30, 2026...

Imagine Documentaries and Concord Originals have partnered on "Pa'l Pueblo: Fania for the People," a feature-length documentary exploring the legacy of Fania Records and the Fania All‑Stars who pioneered salsa in the United States. The record label is credited with helping to inspire a cultural movement that led to the global dominance of Latin music today. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Raquel Cepeda, the filmmaker behind Showtime's "La Madrina: The Life of Lorine Padilla" and VH1/MTV's "Bling: A Planet Rock," the film will feature new interviews with surviving members of the Fania All‑Stars and key figures from the Fania inner circle, alongside rare and previously unseen archival material. Imagine Documentaries, which is part of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine Entertainment, will lead production alongside Cepeda's Resurgent Pictures, which was co-founded with the director's late husband and creative partner, Sacha Jenkins. The project continues Imagine's creative partnership with Resurgent Pictures following their previous collaboration on "Louis Armstrong's Black &Blues."...

Iconoclastic Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone built an incredible career with challenging films that both united and divided audiences. The director has taken on the Vietnam War with Platoon (1986), the Kennedy assassination in JFK (1991), 1980s excess with Wall Street (1987), and the news media's obsession with violence in Natural Born Killers (1994), just to name a few. Stone often focuses on politically complicated characters or historical figures. His last feature film was 2016's Snowden, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the controversial NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Stone always leans into difficult subjects. After a decade off from feature films, he's back with an intimate drama about "family, loss, and pain and how love can change shape in the course of our lifetimes." White Lies is being directed by Stone and stars Josh Hartnett. Stone feels the new film has offered him a fresh start, of sorts, akin to when his career got rolling with works like Platoon and Salvador. Harnett says of the film, "Oliver explores a universe in White Lies that feels personal and entirely new material from a filmmaker I have long admired and am excited to work with." White Lies is currently filming across the world in locations such as Rome, Italy, Bangkok, Thailand, and other international sites....

"Project Hail Mary" is the latest triumph from directors Phil Lord & Christopher Miller. The filmmakers convinced the LEGO building brick company to give "Project Hail Mary" its own collectible LEGO set. But this one isn't necessarily geared towards kids as much as adult collectors, especially due to the slick engineering executed in the set that allows the titular spaceship to move and spin to replicate the creation of artificial gravity. In "Project Hail Mary," a planet in the Tau Ceti system may hold the key to stopping the microorganism known as Astrophage from eating Earth's sun. That planet is a vibrant neon green sphere with various swirling storm systems visible from space, so the plastic circle that keeps the ship on its rotation track makes for a cool design choice. Even though the design of the ship is a micro-scale version of the "Project Hail Mary" ship, it still comes with regularly sized minifigures, including a buildable version of Rocky...

A little over two years ago, Tyler Perry was so shocked by the advancement of OpenAI's latest text-to-video generative AI model Sora that he was willing to put construction of an $800 million studio expansion on hold. Now in 2026, with AI even more advanced and more video tools emerging on the market, Sora is officially dead. OpenAI announced on Tuesday, March 24 that it is shutting down its Sora app, with the company refocusing its efforts on coding and other business ahead of a planned IPO, as reported first in the Wall Street Journal. The tech giant later confirmed the news on X. In addition, Disney is pulling out of its $1 billion investment and licensing agreement with OpenAI. In the absence of a major tool like Sora though, it will be interesting to see how competitors and film studios themselves respond, such as launching their own models that can be trained on their own IP, whether to use for fan engagement or to help filmmakers in the development or post-production processes. Netflix recently acquired an AI company founded by Ben Affleck called InterPositive, and other studios are quietly tinkering with ways to embrace generative AI...

The "Red Scare" and the infamous Hollywood blacklist of the McCarthy era will be the timely topics of the retrospective at this year's Locarno Film Festival. Under the title Red & Black – Hollywood Left and the Blacklist, the Swiss festival's Retrospettiva, once again curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht, will put the spotlight on "one of the most turbulent and politically charged periods in the history of American cinema." Last year, the festival revisited the "Great Expectations" of British postwar cinema. This year, it focuses on a politicized time in Hollywood postwar history. During the period from 1947 to the early 1960s, Hollywood professionals suspected of communist ties faced a crackdown. Produced in partnership with the Cinémathèque Suisse and with the support of UCLA Film & Television Archive, the program will paint "a complex portrait of an era in which creatives were confronted by unprecedented abuse of state and industry power and which they met, courageously, with fierce artistic resistance," The program will include nearly 50 films and other video projects from such directors, writers, and stars as John Garfield, Joseph Losey, Dalton Trumbo, Dorothy Parker, Richard Wright, and Charles "Charlie" Chaplin...

The Academy has struck a 10-year deal with AEG to relocate the Oscars to L.A. LIVE in Downtown Los Angeles starting with the 101st ceremony in 2029, when YouTube will stream the event for the first time under its separate deal. The ceremony will take place in L.A. LIVE's Peacock Theater. AEG will begin "comprehensive enhancements" to the theatre, including upgrades to the stage, sound and lighting systems, lobbies, backstage facilities and additional production-critical areas. L.A. LIVE's recently-expanded plaza will host red carpet arrivals and activities. "We are thrilled to partner with a global powerhouse like AEG," Academy president Bill Kramer and president Lynette Howell Taylor said. "Their track record for building and operating technologically sophisticated live performance venues is unrivaled. L.A. LIVE was built to host the moments that define culture, and there is no greater global stage than the Oscars," said Todd Goldstein, Chief Revenue Officer, AEG. The Oscars will continue to take place at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC in the US, and air in more than 200 territories worldwide, through the 100th Oscars in 2028...