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The Year of Brazil
The Secret Agent Cast and Crew - Cannes (2025) Forget Carnaval and Soccer. This year Brazil is celebrating its powerful entertainment...
Laura Malin
May 283 min read
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Make Hollywood great again
After the president of the United States announced a possible 100% tariff on movies "produced in foreign lands", Hollywood woke up to a...
Laura Malin
May 133 min read
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Write offs
According to the Writers Guild of America, the TV industry lost a shocking 42% of writing jobs in the 2023-24 season. It is almost half...
Laura Malin
Apr 172 min read
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Me, Myself and A.I.
“I’ve just come to realize A.I. is smarter than I am”, confessed Taxi Driver's screenwriter, Paul Schrader, in a January post. He...
Laura Malin
Mar 262 min read
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Movie Theater Magic
“Distributors, please focus first and foremost on the theatrical releases of your films”, invoked Sean Baker at the Academy Award...
Laura Malin
Mar 62 min read
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Oscandals 2025
If the Academy Awards are meant to honor the best in cinema, this year’s ceremony is proving that the drama off-screen can be just as...
Duda Persson
Feb 113 min read
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From LA, with love
Our offices are situated a mere two neighborhoods from Pacific Palisades, a community that has been home to hundreds of film and TV...
Laura Malin
Jan 232 min read
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Voice activated
Forget Alexa and Siri. It is 2025 and audiences are now voice activated. At least this is the latest Netflix guideline: screenwriters...
Laura Malin
Jan 92 min read
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Same Old 2024
What do the top 10 biggest box offices of 2024 have in common? They’re all sequels, adaptations, and remakes (check the full list on Box...
Duda Persson
Dec 7, 20242 min read
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AFM Major Flop
When we think about a movie industry flop, we usually associate it to a single bad theatrical release. But last weeks’ AFM fiasco was...
Laura Malin
Nov 22, 20242 min read
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Endgame
The era of invincible superheroes at the box office seems to be faltering—are audiences finally tired of capes and masks? In recent...
Duda Persson
Oct 30, 20242 min read
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Worldwide Emmys
The recent success of "Shogun", the first non-English TV show to win Best Drama at the Emmys, highlights a significant shift in the...
Laura Malin
Oct 2, 20242 min read
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Sex is Back
A new wave of erotic films are on their way. It started at the Venice Film Festival and is carrying on at Toronto. B oth "Baby Girl"...
Laura Malin
Sep 11, 20242 min read
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Hollywood 2.0
Is it the end of an era? Hollywood is in full crisis as crews of film and TV workers leave Los Angeles because of rising unemployment and...
Laura Malin
Aug 14, 20242 min read
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The Horror Project
Exactly 25 years ago “The Blair Witch Project” was released, setting a new milestone in the horror genre. Low quality video footage,...
Laura Malin
Jul 31, 20242 min read
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Stealing The Show
Suits - TV series Cross distribution is giving second chances to many shows, getting them an extra boost in new platforms. The two-season...
Laura Malin
Jul 17, 20243 min read
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The Law of Adaptation
Michaela Stirling (Masali Baduza) and Francesca Bridgerton (Hannah Dodd) Season three of Netflix's Regency-era drama Bridgerton has...
Laura Malin
Jul 3, 20242 min read
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The Kid's Table
Up (2009) In 1992, the animation medium hit a milestone when Beauty and the Beast was the first animated feature to be nominated for Best...
Laura Malin
Jun 26, 20243 min read
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The Korean Wave
Squid Game (2021) In 2022, Netflix reported that 60 percent of its subscribers have watched a Korean-language show or movie (check...
Duda Persson
Jun 19, 20242 min read
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Pirates of The Streaming
Image: The Sidney Morning Herald The Most of Us The Last of Us was not only the most viewed TV show of 2023 (averaging 30 million...
Laura Malin
Jun 5, 20242 min read
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