Why Movies Don’t Feel Real Anymore: A Close Look at Changing Filmmaking Techniques

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Enormous: The Gorge Story (2019) - IMDb

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Cable nostalgia persists as streaming gets more expensive, fragmented

Cord reviving isn’t common but points to discontent with today’s streaming options.

Inside Lego’s secretive creative process that brings its best sets to life

The Lego Ideas team, including its senior model designer, tells Fast Company how they turned 'Gremlins' icon Gizmo into a 1,125-piece set.

And yet, Terai is responsible for one of Lego’s best sets of the year: Gizmo, the iconic creature from Joe Dante’s 1984 classic Gremlins.

Building a Lego set is an exhaustive process that marries creativity and technical precision.

Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?

When the streaming giant began making films guided by data that aimed to please a vast audience, the results were often generic, forgettable, artless affairs. But is there a happy ending?

The God Man - Full Film (9.5min)

Check out the film's original score by Jason Stamatyades here: https://jasonstam.bandcamp.com/album/the-god-man-original-motion-picture-scoreThe God Man Full...

Ads in NFL Games are 23 Times More Effective Than All Other TV Buys

New research indicates the extent to which NFL advertising dominates other forms of TV programming for marketer returns.

A24’s Empire of Auteurs

Alex Barasch offers the first inside look at the studio behind such movies as Ari Aster’s “Midsommar,” Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” the Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Barry Jenkins’s “Moonlight,” and Josh Safdie’s upcoming “Marty Supreme”—and reports on its shift…

Celebrating 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show

“It’s had a profound impact on our culture, especially on people who’ve felt different and marginalized.”…

The Invisible Horror of The Shining: How Music Makes Stanley Kubrick’s Iconic Film Even More Terrifying

Inexplicable as it may sound to readers of this site, there are movie-lovers who claim not to enjoy the work of Stanley Kubrick.

“It’s a Hell of a Thing, Killing a Man”: the Birth of Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven

Eastwood biographer Shawn Levy dives into the making of the director’s masterpiece: “Unforgiven was Clint Eastwood saying, ‘This is what I’m going to do…get out of my way.’”

Albert Brooks Is Everywhere

The funniest people on the planet think there’s no funnier person than Albert Brooks.

How Steven Soderbergh Directs a Scene & Makes It Great

Steven Soderbergh was one of the earliest filmmakers to break out in what's now called the 'Indiewood' movement of the nineteen-nineties. He was early enough, in fact, to have done so in the eighties, with the Palme d'Or-winning Sex, Lies, and Videotape.

How YouTube redrew the TV map - in graphs

As YouTube has risen over the past 20 years to the streaming giant it is today, the platform has changed the way people watch TV.

Classic Articles that Became Films

A huge collection of cinematic nonfiction

The 100 best sci-fi movies of all time

From clones to alien invasions – picked by scientists, filmmakers and writers

The Binge Purge

TV’s streaming model is broken. It’s also not going away. For Hollywood, figuring that out will be a horror show.

Opinion | A.I. Is Coming for Hank Azaria’s ‘Simpsons’ Voices

Soon enough, artificial intelligence may be able to recreate the sounds — but there will be something missing.

Cost of internet streaming and cell phone bills

12 Days Of Xmas | Space Ghost Coast To Coast | Adult Swim

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Film Technica: Our favorite movies of 2024

This year’s list features quite a bit of horror mixed in with the usual blockbuster fare—plus smaller hidden gems.

Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin

A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer meant fewer shipping costs for Netflix, and fewer DVDs for the company to…

SNL: The 40 Best Skits Of All Time, Ranked

SNL has had some iconic sketches.

Quality Trash: Meet director Ron Oliver, Hallmark’s king of schmaltz - Toronto Life

And other oxymoronic observations about the oeuvre of Ron Oliver, the Hallmark Channel’s most prolific, flamboyant and unapologetically sappy director

Do G-Rated Films Even Make Sense Anymore?

Based on the sharp decline of the G rating, apparently not. Learn why Hollywood seems to have left the general rating designation behind.

Cable TV Is on Its Very Last Legs. Next Year May Be the End.

Comcast’s spinoff of its properties signals the accelerating decline of traditional TV—and a brutal reckoning for the media industry in the new Trump era.

New Zemeckis film used AI to de-age Tom Hanks and Robin Wright

Time-hopping film Here used AI trained on every Tom Hanks movie to make him appear young again.

Our 50 Favorite ‘Saturday Night Live’ Sketches

Live from New York, it’s an idiosyncratic list of ‘SNL’ moments we’re still thinking about—from the Belushi/Aykroyd/Radner years to the Eddie Murphy era to Sandler, Fey, Hader, and beyond.

‘Twisters’ Has Become the Perfect Storm for Drive-In Theaters

"Twisters" is taking over drive-in movie theaters around the country, stealing time from even Marvel's latest release.

Spanish Translation - S1 EP1 - Space Ghost Coast to Coast

After declaring his fondness for Mexican food, Space Ghost asks diet guru Susan Powter what super powers help "stop the insanity." Comedian Kevin Meaney discusses the virtues of wearing tight pants and the Bee Gees stop by for a short, bizarre visit.

A Closer Look At The Growth In Ad-Supported Streaming - Antenna Blog

The Future of Netflix, Amazon and Other Streaming Services

Who will survive? Die? Thrive? And how? We talked to nearly a dozen top media executives and asked them to predict what lies ahead.

TV Companies Losing Subscribers As Sports Rights Deals Continue to Rise

Four major TV provider companies reported collective losses of roughly 1.35 million customers during their first fiscal quarters.

DMA® Regions | Nielsen

DMA (Designated Market Area) regions are the geographic areas and zip codes in the U.S. in which local television viewing is measured by Nielsen.

Why Tubi CEO Anjali Sud thinks free TV can win again

Tubi’s free TV strategy puts it between free social video and paid streaming.

50 Perfect Movies, According to Rotten Tomatoes

Yes, ‘Citizen Kane’ is in Rotten Tomatoes’s 100% Club. So are ‘Paddington 2’ and ‘The Terminator.’

The Madness of King George- The stool scene.

King George's doctors discuss the importance of his stool! Historians believe the King suffered from Porphyria which manifests itself with severe abdominal pain, vomiting, neuropathy, and mental disturbances.

Conan - What is Best in Life

Conan the Barbarian telling people what is best in life.

Digiday+ Research: A guide to ad-supported streaming services, from the top

The first installment of Digiday's two-part series on the top ad-supported streaming services provides an overview of the platforms’ offerings and an analysis of how brands and agencies distribute their ad budgets and ad placements across platforms.

Research Briefing: Frequency capping matters most on streaming platforms

In this edition of the Digiday+ Research Briefing, we examine the top ad attributes marketers want from ad-supported streaming platforms, how brands are increasing their marketing spend on YouTube, and how Walmart and Roblox are teaming up to make virtual e-commerce a reality…

How realistic is the planetary orbit in Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’? A physi

A physicist explains the planetary orbit in Netflix's 3 Body Problem based on computational analysis run in more than 10 billion bodies.

The lines between streaming and cable continue to blur | Ars Technica

Disney+ to offer 24/7 channels to play Star Wars content, commercials.

Carrie at 50: the bloody history of Stephen King’s audacious debut novel

The ‘king of horror’ has published more than 60 novels and sold over 350 million books – but it all began 50 years ago with the tale of a teen misfit with telekinetic powers who gets her first period in the school shower. Jessie Thompson looks back on a great, career-making…

3 Body Problem’s most mind-bending question isn’t about aliens

Would you swear a loyalty oath to humanity — or cheer on its extinction?

“3 Body Problem” Is a Rare Species of Sci-Fi Epic

The Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin’s trilogy mixes heady theoretical questions with genuine spectacle and heart.

The 15 Greatest Documentaries of All Time: Explore Films by Werner Herzog,

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who recognize the phrase 'corny dialogue that would make the pope weep,' and those who don't.

The 38 All-Time Best Food Movies

What to add to your Netflix queue when you want to feel really hungry

“Dune” and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages

The alien language spoken in Frank Herbert’s novels carries traces of Arabic. Why has that influence been scrubbed from the films?

Seven Books That Explain How Hollywood Actually Works

These titles shed light on an industry that’s always bubbling with drama beneath the surface.