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AMC Theatres launches Leawood Films, a new label for distributing small and mid-sized movies while allowing filmmakers to maintain ownership of their feature IP (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/amc-theaters-leawood-films-launch-12370…

AMC Theatres Gets Into Distribution Game With Launch Of Leawood Films Label
AMC Theatres, the world's largest exhibitor, is getting into the distribution business launching Leawood Films, a label for small and mid-sized films.

That ridiculous feeling when you put on a dumb Hindi comedy/action movie (Bank Chor, 2017) to chill, and half-way through are startled to find that one of your best friends from high school, Suresh Venkat, is in it. Totally destroyed my concentration, which fortunately it did not need.

Weather forecast was about rain and maybe lightning ... so we just biked to your lokal mountain and did a quick loop in high humidity.
#hiking #bayern #mountains

“…this is the first AI film to demonstrate that AI can now sustain character consistency, world coherence, and narrative arc across a complete feature,” is roughly equivalent to “we made a car that actually has wheels and can take you somewhere.”
And it wasn’t in the festival, it just screening in the same town.
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1st quote source:

First AI-made Feature Film Premieres at Cannes on Higgsfield | Alex Mashrabov posted on the topic | LinkedIn
We just showcased the trailer of our first 95-minute feature film made entirely on Higgsfield in Cannes. Hell Grind is a 95-minute sci-fi heist directed by Aitore Zholdaskali and co-written with Adilkhan Yerzhanov, a two-time Cannes Official Programme filmmaker. A team of 15 professional directors, DPs, and editors made it on Higgsfield in 14 days for under $500K. The traditional comparable production cost is around $50M. But beyond the numbers, this is the first AI film to demonstrate that …

seen on a telephone pole down the street

Das #Rezept des Tages:
🍝 #Spaghettikürbis mit Tomaten-Zucchini-Füllung! 🎃
Überraschend lecker: Der #Kürbis wird vorgegart und dann mit einer herzhaften Mischung aus

Spaghettikürbis mit Tomaten-Zucchini-Füllung – einfach & vegetarisch
Du hast noch nie Spaghettikürbis probiert? Dann wird’s Zeit! Gefüllt mit Tomaten, Zucchini und Pilzen ist er ein echtes Herbst-Highlight.

The US House Judiciary Committee is coming down hard on the S. Korean government for its actions against online retailer Coupang following a massive breach.
New Report Exposes South Korea's Discriminatory Attacks on American-owned Businesses
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New Report Exposes South Korea's Discriminatory Attacks on American-owned Businesses
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Judiciary Committee released an interim staff report titled, "Closed for Competition: South Korea's Discriminatory Attacks on American-owned Businesses." The report details South Korea's history of discriminatory treatment against American-owned businesses and the ways in which it has escalated over the past sever

Flink gets talked about a lot. Where does it actually make a difference? Naci Simsek is at #bbuzz26 to share real-world cases where Apache Flink solved concrete, hard problems in production.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/beyond-the-hype-when-apache-flink-solves-real-problems/

Sources: indie studio Neon acquires Artificial, after Amazon MGM Studios dropped the biopic on Sam Altman and OpenAI; Amazon invested $50B in OpenAI in February (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/business/media/opena…

Neon Buys ‘Artificial,’ a Film About OpenAI, After Amazon Dropped It
Neon purchased “Artificial,” which focuses on OpenAI’s chief, Sam Altman, after Amazon walked away from it following an investment in the start-up.

#goodmorning today my morning walk is to the train for commute. It has cooled down and we got some long awaited rain.
Yesterday afternoon I even started cutting videos from our vacation. More to come soon.
Enjoy your day!