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Dann mach ich mir halt mein eigenes Netflix! Ich hab mir zu Weihnachten einen Traum erfüllt und eine eigene Streaming-Plattform gebastelt. Share and Enjoy. https://schweizer.film/

The Classic Film Club
We love the classic films. But which ones hold up and which ones should be avoided...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-classic-film-club/

“We’re No Angels” is my favorite Christmas movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We're_No_Angels_(1955_film)

Paramount plans to distribute Brett Ratner-directed Rush Hour 4 after Trump reportedly asked it to revive the franchise; Ratner directed Amazon's Melania doc (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/rush-hour-4-paramount-trump-1236…

'Rush Hour 4' in the Works at Paramount
"Rush Hour 4" in the works at Paramount after prodding from president Trump.

Oh, das Filmarchiv hat gerade online Otto Schenks Verfilmung von Schnitzlers "Reigen" (1973) im Angebot. #film
https://www.filmarchiv.at/de/filmarchiv-on/video/f…

Film: Der Reigen

Rep #Maxwell #Alejandro #Frost, Democrat of Florida,
was hit in the face by a man who told the lawmaker that he would be deported
at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, over the weekend.
The attacker “told …

Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost Is Assaulted at Sundance Film Festival
Mr. Frost, Democrat of Florida, said he was punched by a man who said the lawmaker would be deported. The man was arrested on charges of aggravated burglary and assault.

Chargers finalize deal with Mike McDaniel, per source. What to expect from his offense? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6992884/2026/01/26/mike-mcdaniel-hired-chargers-scheme-film-justin-herbert/

Kurde, ale dobry #film właśnie obejrzałem - #AHouseOfDynamite !
Aż przypomniały się czasy starych, dobrych, amerykańskich filmów akcji. Pełne patosu. Dobra obsada. Trzyma w napięciu.
Chyba mogę polecić :) Na jednej rzeczy się zawiodłem, aczkolwiek jednocześnie dodaje ona smaku, ale…

Who's paying the attendees?
From: @…
https://assortedflotsam.com/@politicsbot/115951193821755824

dbpedia_starring: DBpedia film-actor network
A bipartite network of movies and the actors that played in them, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 157184 nodes and 281396 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://network…

By-the-way, I tend to watch movie credits (often discovering some good music) and I noticed after watching the new film Nuremberg that the copyright notice at the end explicitly denies rights to use the film to or script to feed AIs.

A man is under arrest for assaulting U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost at the Sundance Film Festival (Lindsey Bahr/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/sundance-film-festival-congressman-assault-ff98382c02bdecdbf5c28ac0b677ac6a
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p57#a260125p57

OK #tatort München; ein Film im Film vom Theater im Theater.
Tschechows "Die Möwe" ist quasi das innerste

😵‍💫🥸 was für ein Film 💀
„Destination Inmer Space“
#schlefaz

Goodbye Udo Kier
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/udo-kier-dead-own-private-idaho-andy-warhol-frankenstein-1236590259/

Udo Kier Dead: 'Andy Warhol's Frankenstein' Star Was 81
Udo Kier, a German actor who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.

Why Raiders' Chip Kelly era should signal a stop to pipeline of college-to-NFL coaches https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6832852/2025/11/25/chip-kelly-raiders-fired-offense-film-review/

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Uit het interview met Sigrid Kaag
The Mouse That Roared (1959) Film in English, Jean Seberg, Peter Sellers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU8UEinOZWo (1959, 83min)
The Mouse That Roared (film) - Wikipedia
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared_(film)

"Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music or a book can make a difference. It can change the world."
—Alan Rickman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Tape Talk: What stood out on film from Cowboys-Chargers https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tape-talk-what-stood-out-on-film-from-cowboys-chargers

still the only true Xmas film: https://youtu.be/HKUY_gOxLas

Die Jurry der Solothurner Filmtage ehren Edna Politi (78). Eine Filmemacherin geprägt von Exil und Widerstand
#Film #Frau #Regiesseurin

Solothurn ehrt Edna Politi: eine Filmemacherin geprägt von Exil und Widerstand
Edna Politi ist die erste Nicht-Schweizerin, die als Ehrengast für das wichtigste Ereignis der Schweizer Filmszene ausgewählt wurde.

Hessischer Filmpreis für Kessler
Michael Kessler bekam den Ehrenpreis des Hessischen Film- und Kinopreises für sein Repertoire von hintersinniger Komik bis großer Ernsthaftigkeit.
https://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-26.10.2025-michael-kessler.html
…

Nice, I wanted to write about that topic. And there.. Someone wrote about it already.
That's the reason why I never recorded myself walnut walking into the scene.
Even though it looks really cool,it really disturbs my hiking experience and totally turns into filming.
https://blog.lauram…

People filming themselves in nature
A lot of hiking, camping, and cycling youtube video makers choose to film third-person footage of themselves alone in nature... sometimes with a drone, but s...

Why Raiders' Chip Kelly era should signal a stop to pipeline of college-to-NFL coaches https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6832852/2025/11/25/chip-kelly-raiders-fired-offense-film-review/

Ich liebe den Moon-Soundtrack! Clint Mansell hat mir damit den perfekten Hintergrund zum Lesen komponiert. Irgendwann schaue ich sicher auch mal den Film
https://youtu.be/WUraLNrTVeg?si=BVNobuVynfcNIAUz

Bio-based film matches traditional plastic packaging in blocking moisture and oxygen
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-bio-based-traditional-plastic-packaging.html

It seems like an odd choice for this piece to not note that James Cameron is not a US citizen (he's Canadian and withdrew his application for US citizenship decades ago).
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/23/james-cameron-left-…

‘Everybody’s at each other’s throats’: James Cameron says he has left the US permanently
Avatar director, who moved to New Zealand after the Covid pandemic says he will soon be a citizen of a country where people ‘are, for the most part, sane’

Searched for the film Big on Duck Duck Go. I pressed "continued on Wikipedia" and ended up on a non-existing page for "Big (film)" on Icelandic Wikipedia.
I went back and noticed that Iceland was checked as my location. I unchecked and tried it again and got the expected English language article.
There are levels of problems here but the most obvious might be the assumption that Icelandic Wikipedia has a page about any topic and that the Icelandic article woul…

Man Arrested at Sundance For Racially Motivated Incident at CAA Party; Victim Was Florida Congressman (Brent Lang/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/man-arrested-sundance-racist-incident-caa-party-1236640115/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260124/p78#a260124p78

[Von Haugeruds Oslo-Trilogie fand ich "Sehnsucht" und "Träume" formidabel, wiewohl mir "Liebe" leicht an die Nerven ging.#film]

A flexible photoacoustic retinal prosthesis https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67518-6 "These findings demonstrate the potential of photoacoustic stimulation for high-acuity visual restoration in blind patients."; retinal implant

It's been a while since I last posted to my "Thinking out loud" series on #FineArtsPedagogy. Right now, I've been delving into the nature of creativity, which brings together both my work at The Norwegian Film School and the emerging work at MishMash - Centre for AI & Creativity.
I have been troubled by understandings of creativity that emphasize product and …

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
[Two Pyroans approach from a distance. They appear and disappear; each time they reappear they are closer.]
SERVALAN: Let me speak to them. [to approaching Pyroans] We're friends.
https://

Disney crosses the $6B milestone at the box office for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic; no other studio has managed to reach $6B since 2015 (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/disney-box-office-milest…

Disney Crosses $6 Billion at Global Box Office
Disney surpassed a major box office milestone, crossing the $6 billion mark globally.

a moment of recognition of the passing of the great #reggae vocalist Jimmy Cliff at age 81..a remarkable talented man whose dynamic performances and voice that emerged from Jamaican poverty brought joy & inspiration to millions around the globe. His international career breakthru came with starring role in the film The Harder They Come in 1972, but he'd already had a greatest hits album out 2 years …

For a moment I was afraid I'd missed the Nordic Adventure Film Festival - but it's on next week.
This new film by Yann Bertrand looks exceptional #NAFF25
https://adventurefilmfest.dk/portfolio/nature-the-call-for-reconciliation/

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Passions:
🎵 I'm In Love With A German Film Star
#NowPlaying #ThePassions
https://theboojays.bandcamp.com/track/im-in-love-with-a-german-film-star-passions
https://open.spotify.com/track/7A3rywP8wA9HbL36NMnD81

Tape Talk: What stood out on film from Cowboys-Chargers https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tape-talk-what-stood-out-on-film-from-cowboys-chargers

And in the middle of all of that, people were still out there watching for ICE, driving all over in the cold, trying to observe them and film them, trying to save just one person from being kidnapped, then another, then another.
If these fascists thought they were going to win by breaking us, they thought wrong. This fight may be on our doorstep for a long time yet, but I do now see anybody looking to fold.
Minneapolis and St. Paul will endure. ICE will melt in hell.

On Joe Rogan's JRE, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discuss Hollywood and AI; Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate the plot because viewers are on their phones (Jack Dunn/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/matt-damon-netfl…

Matt Damon: Netflix Wants Movies to Account for Viewers on Their Phone
Matt Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate 'the plot three or four times in the dialogue' to account for viewers using their phones.

Amram is a composer, musician, author, conductor and boundlessly connected collaborator who has been cheerfully ignoring musical categories since the 1940s.
His output includes jazz tunes, symphonies, operas, film scores, theater music, off-the-cuff talking blues and idiom-hopping folk-festival performances where he’s likely to play piano, pennywhistle and percussion.

At 95, David Amram Still Makes Music. And Nobody Can Put Him in a Box.
Jazz, classical, folk, world music — for this composer, categories were never confining.

RIP Udo Kier. I loved him in many things but he's particularly great opposite River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho. Later he appeared again with Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic.
Perhaps it is time to watch Spermula in honor of his divers oeuvre. I think he had a lot of fun in his career.

Gestern haben wir, eigentlich wie jedes Jahr, "unseren" Weihnachtsfilm geschaut.
Wir sind keine Engel, von 1955.
Der Film ist einfach nur gut.

Universal's Wicked: For Good debuted with $150M in North America and $76M overseas in its opening weekend, the biggest global opening for a musical adaptation (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/wicked-fo…

Wicked 2 Box Office: For Good Sets Record for Broadway Adaptation
"Wicked: For Good" was No. 1 with $150 million and set a record for Broadway adaptations.

FAA Effectively Criminalizes Using Drones To Film ICE - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/01/faa-effectively-criminalizes-using-drones-to-film-ice/

Today's learned fact:
On photographic film rolls (yes, film is still available) the film is held to the spool with a tape that generates sparks (that fog the film) if it is removed too quickly.
(I ruined a lot of film back in the 1960's and '70s because of that *&!^!! tape.)

Bu akşam İşçi Filimleri Festivali'nin açılışına gittim. Gördüm ki ülkedeki hükümet sorunu kadar muhalefet sorunu var. Sinema televizyon bölümünün öğrencilerine verselerdi bundan 10 kat iyi yaparlardı.
Açılış konuşmaları ve ödül törenleri bitip film başlayınca katılanların yarısı toz oldu. Kaçanların içinde sendika temsilcileri çoğunlukta. Zaten hiç işçi görmedim.
Film başladı. Döngü diye bir film. Büyükçe bir salon (500 kişilik), küçük bir perde ve filmi bilgisayardan yansıtıyo…

RE: https://zirk.us/@SaltiredPopcorn/115961602825498363
Interesting trailer inderdaad. 'Klassiek' geschoten op 3:4 formaat.
Die My Love (2025) on MUBI
https://mubi.com/en/nl/films/die-my-love (trailer ( film indien abo))
VPRO cinema:
https://www.cinema.nl/db/16131467-die-my-love (Op MUBI en in de bioscoop)

They Executed Him For Wielding A Camera https://thedissenter.org/alex-pretti-killed-for-wielding-a-camera/

Am 6.12.25 gibt es den #FancyCyclistaRide in der Nikoletta-Edition. Start 17 Uhr, Lange Reihe, #Hamburg. Geplant als Lichterfahrt mit anschließendem Picknick im Warmen.

""On paper, it was a Star Trek parody. It turned into a cult classic so beloved it was voted in 2013 by Trekers as the seventh greatest #StarTrek film ever made.
But what makes #GalaxyQuest brilliant isn't just the premise or the jokes or how well it respects the genre…

YouTube sperrt zwei populäre Kanäle wegen KI-generierter Fake-Trailer
YouTube hat die Kanäle Screen Culture und KH Studio dauerhaft gesperrt. Beide hatten mit KI-generierten Film-Trailern Millionen Views generiert.

Kellen Moore, Liam Coen, Ben Johnson showcase why they were hired: Week 16 film review https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6912244/2025/12/23/coen-kellen-moore-ben-johnson-film-review/

feeling right levitated by chuck smith's fugs film! at doc #nyc, with glorious archival footage & fresh interviews, including ed sanders, the elusive & charming ken weaver, crumb & kominsky together & more. streaming thru 11/30 then up in the air. https://w…

Why #Herefordshire was the perfect stand-in for Shakespeare’s Stratford in the new film of Hamnet | England holidays | The Guardian
https://www.

Film with Kevin O'Connell: Top Plays from Vikings Primetime Win Over Cowboys https://www.vikings.com/video/film-with-kevin-o-connell-top-plays-from-vikings-primetime-win-over-cowboys

Why I love The Year My Voice Broke:
https://bzangygroink.co.uk/archives/2025/11/23/the-year-my-voice-broke-1987/

The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
The Year My Voice Broke (1987) L>R Trev (Ben Mendelsohn) Freya (Loene Carmen) and Danny (Noah Taylor) I was twenty or twenty-one when this film came out. Though I was older than Danny Embling, 1…

Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost assaulted at Sundance Film Festival event, police say (Aleena Fayaz/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/01/24/politics/maxwell-frost-sundance-assault
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p12#a260125p12

AMC Networks' Sundance Now rebrands from offering scripted TV to airing indie film and festival titles, for $7.99/month, as this year's Sundance Festival begins (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodrepor…

Sundance Now to Rebrand as “Algorithm-Free” Streaming Service for Indie Film
AMC Networks runs the shingle that previously had scripted TV offerings.

Tibetan Buddhism is quick to judge an "imperfect documentary" but much more laxist to leave a system of abuse in place because : traditions and root guru cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.org/art…

‘Buddhism: The Unspeakable Truth’ Elevates Victims’ Stories in Imperfect Documentary
Despite shortcomings, the film gives a necessary platform to abuse survivors.

Multi-port programmable silicon photonics using low-loss phase change material Sb$_2$Se$_3$
Thomas W. Radford, Idris A Ajia, Latif Rozaqi, Priya Deoli, Xingzhao Yan, Mehdi Banakar, David J Thomson, Ioannis Zeimpekis, Alberto Politi, Otto L. Muskens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18205 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18205 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18205
arXiv:2511.18205v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reconfigurable photonic devices are rapidly emerging as a cornerstone of next generation optical technologies, with wide ranging applications in quantum simulation, neuromorphic computing, and large-scale photonic processors. A central challenge in this field is identifying an optimal platform to enable compact, efficient, and scalable reconfigurability. Optical phase-change materials (PCMs) offer a compelling solution by enabling non-volatile, reversible tuning of optical properties, compatible with a wide range of device platforms and current CMOS technologies. In particular, antimony tri-selenide ($\text{Sb}_{2}\text{Se}_{3}$) stands out for its ultra low-loss characteristics at telecommunication wavelengths and its reversible switching. In this work, we present an experimental platform capable of encoding multi-port operations onto the transmission matrix of a compact multimode interferometer architecture on standard 220~nm silicon photonics using \textit{in-silico} designed digital patterns. The multi-port devices are clad with a thin film of $\text{Sb}_{2}\text{Se}_{3}$, which can be optically addressed using direct laser writing to provide local perturbations to the refractive index. A range of multi-port geometries from 2$\times$2 up to 5$\times$5 couplers are demonstrated, achieving simultaneous control of up to 25 matrix elements with programming accuracy of 90% relative to simulated patterns. Patterned devices remain stable with consistent optical performance across the C-band wavelengths. Our work establishes a pathway towards the development of large scale PCM-based reconfigurable multi-port devices which will allow implementing matrix operations on three orders of magnitude smaller areas than interferometer meshes.
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Watch: How TreVeyon Henderson has helped elevate surging Patriots offense https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6834520/2025/11/24/treveyon-henderson-film-breakdown-patriots/

Just read Joe McGovern’s write up in this month’s The Wrap of Jared Harris’ great role and extraordinary performance in A House of Dynamite. So good to get some insights on that work. Now I wanna watch the movie again.
#movies #film

Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost Is Assaulted at Sundance Film Festival (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/us/maxwell-alejandro-frost-assaulted-sundance-festival.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p64#a260125p64

Tape Talk: The Quinnen Williams effect, poetry in motion on film for Cowboys offense https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tape-talk-the-quinnen-williams-effect-poetry-in-motion-on-film-for-cowboys-offense

Japan's 2026 Oscar entry Kokuho grosses more than $111M, breaking the country's 22-year-old box office record for a domestic live-action film (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-25…

dbpedia_starring: DBpedia film-actor network
A bipartite network of movies and the actors that played in them, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 157184 nodes and 281396 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://network…

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
TARRANT: [Adjusts pillow] How's that, darling? More comfortable?
DAYNA: Oh yes. Much better. Thank you, darling.
[INTERIOR. Ultraworld confinement cell. Dayna removes a small object from her mouth.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/540 B7B3

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sam Taylor-Wood:
🎵 I'm In Love With A German Film Star
#NowPlaying #SamTaylorWood
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

Just watched the film "Nuremberg" via Amazon last night.
Although set in the context of the Nuremberg trials of the Nazi leaders, it was definitely about Trump and Maga and the cult of "American Exceptionalism".
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29567915/

Many thanks to Finnarp at #AboaStation for inviting us to surely the nicest most exclusive film festival I've ever attended. Some very thought-provoking films and a delightful evening, looking forward to round 2 tomorrow of #Antarctica's only Film Festival:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/238378545950/posts/10161790659455951/

NY governor signs bills requiring ads to disclose AI-generated performers and mandating consent of heirs to use a deceased person's likeness commercially (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/new-york-ai-law-consumers-film-industry-1236646078…

New York Enacts Landmark AI Laws Requiring Disclosure Of Synthetic Performers In Ads And Consent For Posthumous Use Of Name, Image & Likeness
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed the nation's first AI bill designed to both protect consumers and increase transparency in the film industry.

Production company Gaumont confirms Apple TV pulled French show The Hunt days before its debut after a journalist alleged it was plagiarized from a 1973 novel (Alexi Duggins/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

A triumph of film art, creating on the screen a vast, awe-inspiring picture of the universe as it would appear to a voyager through space, this film was among the sources used by Stanley Kubrick in his 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Universe - #NFB
https://www.nfb.ca/film/universe/

Visuelles Feuerwerk mit dünner Story: „Avatar: Fire and Ash“
Am 17. Dezember kommt der dritte Avatar-Film in die Kinos. James Cameron brennt darin wieder ein Feuerwerk visueller Effekte ab, diesmal mit roter Farbpalette.

Bayerischer Filmpreis 2026
Michael @bullyherbig erhält für "Das Kanu des Manitu" den Preis für den erfolgreichsten Film.
http://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-20.01.2026-bayerischer-filmpreis.html
Bild Copyright Constantin Film

The UK approves the £750M Marlow Studios project backed by James Cameron, overruling a 2024 local council decision to block it due to environmental concerns (Rose Henderson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

dbpedia_starring: DBpedia film-actor network
A bipartite network of movies and the actors that played in them, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 157184 nodes and 281396 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://network…

💥2000 meters to Andriivka
The closer you get to combat, the more jarring it becomes.
Death comes randomly.
The noise is terrifying;
the fear is stifling.
And most people can’t bear to see what war actually does to the human body
—how a brief instant can transform a living, breathing person
into ugly scraps of flesh.
The fighting in Ukraine has, in many ways,
transformed the nature of warfare.
As many as 80 percent of battle casu…

A War Film to Change All War Films
An Oscar-shortlisted documentary shows battle in startling clarity.

"Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project."
—Alex Borstein
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that depicted Disney characters, after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter flagging the links (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/google-removes-ai-videos-disney…

Google Removes AI Videos of Disney Characters After Cease and Desist
Google has taken down dozens of AI-generated videos of Disney-owned characters after the studio sent a cease and desist letter on Wednesday.

Ryan Coogler's Sinners breaks the Academy Awards' nomination record with 16 nominations, surpassing the previous record of 14, held by three films (Clayton Davis/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/sinners-oscars-nominations-record…

'Sinners' Breaks Oscar Nominations Record With 16 Nods
"Sinners" breaks the all-time Oscar nominations record with 16 nods.

Tape Talk: What stood out on film from Cowboys-Vikings https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tape-talk-what-stood-out-on-film-from-cowboys-vikings

Tape Talk: What stood out on film from Cowboys-Vikings https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tape-talk-what-stood-out-on-film-from-cowboys-vikings

How Bo Nix, Trevor Lawrence and J.J. McCarthy are developing: Week 15 film review https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6892434/2025/12/16/bo-nix-trevor-lawrence-jj-mccarthy-film-review/

Q&A with Variety's new publisher and co-president, Dea Lawrence, on her career, on AI and digital creators being "crucial" for the outlet, and more (Matt Donnelly/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/dea

Variety's Publisher and Co-President Dea Lawrence Sets Her Agenda
Top Variety business executive Dea Lawrence talks about her plans to push the venerable brand forward.

EXCLUSIVE: First look at 'MELANIA' film (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-first-look-melania-film
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p100#a251217p100

Breaking Down Cowboys' Come-From-Behind Victory | Film Breakdown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW3P336wgTQ

Adobe pledges ~$10M in grants and product donations in 2026 to support filmmakers, including funding creators directly for the first time (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

Adobe Pledges $10M to Film and TV Fund, Partners With Amelia Dimoldenberg
The software company is launching new partnerships with organizations including Dimoldenberg's Dimz Inc. Academy and Rideback RISE.

Vue CEO Tim Richards criticizes Netflix's deal giving Imax a two-week exclusive run for the Narnia film, arguing it undermines the theatrical ecosystem (Alex Ritman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/vue-cinemas-letter-imax-netflix-narn…

Vue Cinemas Boss Slams IMAX Over Netflix's Exclusive Narnia Deal
In a letter shared with Variety, Vue CEO Tim Richards has criticised the exclusive deal IMAX signed with Netflix over Greta Gerwig's Narnia

The Kansas City Chiefs launch Foolish Club Studios, a first for an NFL team, to produce scripted and unscripted content that "might only be sports-adjacent" (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/kansas-city-chiefs-studio-plans…

Kansas City Chiefs In-House Studio Plans: TV and Film Content
The Kansas City Chiefs are the undisputed NFL team of choice for Swifties — but the team’s ultimate goal is total world fandom domination.

Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) agree to buy WildBrain's 41% stake in Peanuts Holdings for ~$457M, raising Sony's slice to 80% (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sony-acquire-peanuts-457-mil…

Sony to Own Control of Peanuts in $457 Million Deal With WildBrain
Sony will own 80% of Peanuts Holdings after acquiring the 41% stake in the entity from WildBrain.

On Joe Rogan's JRE, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discuss Hollywood and AI; Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate the plot because viewers are on their phones (Jack Dunn/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/matt-damon-netfl…

Matt Damon: Netflix Wants Movies to Account for Viewers on Their Phone
Matt Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate 'the plot three or four times in the dialogue' to account for viewers using their phones.

FilmLA: production days for film, TV, and commercials in Los Angeles fell 12.3% in Q4 2025 from Q3; for 2025 overall, production was about half of 2019's volume (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/los-angeles-production-no-rebound-12…

L.A. Production Shows No Sign of a Rebound Yet
L.A. production volume fell in the fourth quarter of 2025, continuing a downward trend that has been in place since 2022.

Sources: Paramount Skydance formed an investment consortium with the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi to submit a $71B bid for WBD (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/paramount-warner-bros-discove…

Paramount Bid for WB Discovery Backed by Saudis, Qatar and Abu Dhabi
Paramount has formed an investment consortium with the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi to submit a $71 billion bid for WBD.

How China stopped an NYC-based independent Chinese film festival, including pressuring directors and moderators, as it largely erases independent films in China (Vivian Wang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/world/asia/china-film-festival-new-…

How China Reached Into New York to Stop a Tiny Film Festival
A showcase for independent Chinese films was scrapped after the Chinese authorities pressured directors, moderators and even a volunteer to pull out.

Paramount reaffirms its $30/share all-cash bid after WBD's board officially rejected it, saying its bid offers "superior value and certainty" for shareholders (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/par

Paramount Sticks to $30/Share Offer for WBD After Board Rejects Bid
David Ellison's Paramount Skydance is signaling that it will fight for the hearts and minds of Warner Bros. Discovery with the $30/share offer it has already put forward -- and that it won't go higher.

SEC filing: WBD says the Ellisons offered David Zaslav a compensation package of several hundred million dollars, which Zaslav said was inappropriate to discuss (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/ins

Inside the Fractious WBD-Paramount Deal Talks Between Ellison, Zaslav
WBD presented a chronology of events and meetings that occurred, leading to its deal to sell Warner Bros. studios and HBO Max to Netflix, following by David Ellison’s hostile takeover bid and the WBD board’s official rejection of the $30/share bid on Dec. 17.