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‘Supacell’ Renewed for Second Season at Netflix
Netflix is powering up a second season of Supacell. The streamer has renewed the series about five Black people in South London who unexpectedly develop superpowers. Supacell, created by Rapman, premiered on June 27 and has been a fixture in Netflix’s internal top 10 list of English-language series since its debut. Netflix announced the renewal […]
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Netflix Opening ‘Squid Game’ Live Experience in New York Ahead of Season 2
Are New Yorkers ready to play some red light, green light? Netflix says that it will open “Squid Game: The Experience” in New York City in October, letting people experience the thrill and stress of the popular series firsthand. The live experience will be based at the Manhattan Mall, and feature “Front Man” having participants […]
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Ben Burtt on Revolutionizing Sci-Fi Sound With ‘Star Wars’ and Creating Darth Vader’s Breathing
Ben Burtt created the sound of my childhood. He gets that a lot. “Yeah, I hear that often,” says the legendary sound designer, creator of the lightsabre swish and Darth Vader’s electronic wheezing, the voice of R2-D2, Chewbacca and, for a younger generation, that of Pixar’s WALL-E. “I guess I altered the DNA of a […]
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Elon Musk Got EU Disinformation Warning Before Rambling Donald Trump Interview on X
The European Union issued a stark warning to X owner and executive chairman Elon Musk before his live-streamed X interview with former U.S. president Donald Trump – and received an expletive-filled response. On Monday night, Trump and Musk had a conversation marred by technical issues that caused a 40-minute-plus delay and was widely described as rambling. […]
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Locarno Open Doors Program Unveils Winners, Sets New Africa Focus
Open Doors, the co-production and talent development program for artists from underrepresented communities around the world that is part of the Locarno Film Festival’s Locarno Pro industry strand, unveiled its 2024 winners on Tuesday. Eight projects in development were selected for its co-production platform, the Projects Hub, and were eligible for the three main cash […]
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Korean Cheerleading Drama ‘Victory’ to Get North American Release
Korean cheerleading movie Victory is headed to U.S. cinemas. Ahead of its upcoming South Korean release, the film was pre-sold by Seoul-based sales outfit Finecut to 815 Pictures for a North American theatrical run. Described as “an uplifting and heartwarming drama centered around a high-school dance duo,” the film follows the cheerleaders as they inspire […]
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‘Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In’ Director Soi Cheang on Reviving Hong Kong Action Cinema, Plans for Prequel and Sequel
Since its local release in May, Soi Cheang’s action sensation Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In has become Hong Kong’s second-biggest domestic hit ever, earning $13.7 million in a city of just 7.2 million residents. But not only has the film reinvigorated Hong Kong’s fabled martial arts genre; it also has revived — if only fleetingly […]
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‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Peter Morgan on How ‘The Sopranos’ Influenced ‘The Crown,’ Writing All 60 Episodes of the Show and Meeting Tony Blair
Peter Morgan is a playwright, screenwriter and TV series creator and showrunner who has been described by The Guardian as “Britain’s leading contemporary screen dramatist,” and about whom the publication wrote, “There is no one who works quite like him. Actually, there might be nobody who has worked quite like him in British drama since […]
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Warner Bros. Discovery Olympics Coverage Hits Streaming Records
Warner Bros. Discovery is claiming the gold at this year’s Olympic Games, boasting record streaming and viewership figures for its coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics in Europe. Official figures released by WBD on Monday show the company reached a cumulative 215 million viewers in Europe across its television and streaming platforms, fully 23 percent, […]
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Kit Harington Says “Mistakes Were Made” Making a “Rushed” ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8
"I think there were mistakes made, story-wise, towards the end maybe. I think there were some interesting choices that didn’t quite work"
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Oscars 2025: Latvia Picks Animated ‘Flow’ for International Feature Race
Latvia has picked Gints Zilbalodis’ animated feature Flow as its entry in the best international feature category for the 2025 Oscars. The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes this year and screened at animated festival Annecy, where it won four awards including the audience and jury prizes. Sideshow and Janus Films […]
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Marco Tullio Giordana on ‘The Life Apart’ and Why So Many Italian Films Explore Family Issues
In 1980, Italian writer and director Marco Tullio Giordana won the Golden Leopard award at the Locarno Film Festival for his feature film debut Maledetti vi amerò. This year, he is back for the 77th edition of the Swiss festival with La vita accanto (The Life Apart). And he is back to collect another honor. […]
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