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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 9, 20252 min read


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Is #MeToo Fading Away?
The 77th Cannes Film Festival opened with anticipation for a renewed #metoo movement that has finally been gaining momentum in France....
Laura Malin
May 23, 20242 min read


The Sky Is The Limit
On February 22nd, OpenAI launched a revolutionary technology that has been both exciting and concerning for the entertainment industry....
Duda Persson
May 16, 20242 min read


Take It Slow
There is something to be said about slowing down. It seems like after the end of the lockdown, content has been speeding up in many ways:...
Laura Malin
May 8, 20242 min read


The Bestseller Machine
TikTok is changing the way books are recommended and sold, according to this The Economist article. Since 2021, the Chinese app has...
Duda Persson
May 1, 20242 min read


Anatomy of The Oscars
As the 96th Academy Awards approach, a recurrent question remains: why is so much underrepresentation still going on? Even with the new...
Laura Malin
Mar 8, 20242 min read


Be Unusual and Multiply
The Chosen (2019) Would you believe that more than 600 million people from 197 countries watched a TV series that was crowdfunded and...
Laura Malin
Feb 21, 20242 min read


Back To The Future
Bringing ads back to TV series makes viewers face a different reality: losing control of what they watch. On top of it, plugging...
Laura Malin
Feb 7, 20242 min read
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