• Is Blockbuster video about to make a comeback?
    Thursday, March 23, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    The mysterious reactivation of the long-moribund brand’s site, accompanied by a cryptic message, has fans asking if a mighty return is on the cards A few days ago, something strange happened in a forgotten corner of the internet. The...
  • ‘Of course it’s disturbing’: will AI change Hollywood forever?
    Thursday, March 23, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    With the rise of AI-led services to write, voice and provide effects, industry experts express concern over the future What will AI (artificial intelligence) do to Hollywood? Who better to answer that question than ChatGPT, a thrilling...
  • Peaky Blinders creator launches construction of new film and TV studio
    Tuesday, March 21, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    Steven Knight’s Digbeth Loc. Studios in Birmingham will house ska drama This Town, UB40 and Peaky Blinders film By order of the Peaky Blinders’ creator Steven Knight, construction has begun on his new multimillion-pound TV and film...
  • Hollywood by Mateo Blanco: Celebrating 100 years of the original marker for La La Land
    Monday, March 20, 2023 from
    Hollywood - Mateo Blanco by Juan Tena The world famous HOLLYWOOD sign reaches a landmark birthday.
  • An Overview of DAWs for Creating Original Film Music
    Monday, March 20, 2023 from
    DAWs for Creating Original Film Music The wide range of Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) available today provide music aficionados with the tools needed to create amazing, original music for film.
  • Today’s ‘films’ are nothing of the sort – so stop calling them that | John Boorman
    Thursday, March 16, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans was the only best picture nominee this year shot on celluloid. It’s time to stop misnaming movies For more than 100 years, films have been made of film. Now, instead of a magazine being loaded on to the...
  • Roblox Had $150M Deposited At Silicon Valley Bank When It Crashed Last Week
    Monday, March 13, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    The company's money is safe now though after the government said it would insure all SVB deposits.
  • How did Everything Everywhere All At Once sweep the Oscars?
    Monday, March 13, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    A combination of old fashioned star power and zeitgeisty marketing captured Oscar voters (and audiences) across the board • Everything Everywhere All at Once owes its smashing Oscars victory to its amazing resonance • Oscars 2023:...
  • Twickenham Studios to go global as APX Group acquires 50% of business
    Monday, March 13, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    US and European fund to rebrand network of studios it is building around world under name of 110-year-old studio The owner of Twickenham Studios, home to films from The Italian Job to Bohemian Rhapsody, is to export its famous brand...
  • ‘A24 finds the zeitgeist and sets the trend’: how a small indie producer came to dominate the Oscars
    Saturday, March 11, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    Everything Everywhere All at Once raked in $100m and is tipped to win big at the Academy Awards. If it does, that caps quite a decade for the hip New York firm credited with getting young viewers into the arthouse. What’s its secret? It...
  • Why Top Gun: Maverick should win the best picture Oscar
    Friday, March 10, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    The film that even Steven Spielberg has called ‘the saviour of cinema’ deserves credit for reviving the industry – but more than that, it’s a genuinely great blockbuster that truly hits deep When it comes to picking a best picture...
  • Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Ups Its Stake In ‘One Piece,’ ‘Dragon Ball’ Producer Toei Company
    Wednesday, March 8, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    The increased investment comes just weeks after Toei published an ambitious 10-year financial plan.
  • Botox, trifle and a bit of Australia: Oscars gift bags and party menu revealed
    Wednesday, March 8, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    Even if nominees don’t win they can walk away with a $126,000 grab bag of wellness-focused luxuries, after enjoying tiny fish and chips Japanese milk bread, a three-night stay for eight people on a volcanic Italian island and liposuction...
  • Star Wars films by Kevin Feige and Patty Jenkins shelved
    Wednesday, March 8, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    Taika Waititi is looking to direct and act in the first live action Star Wars film since The Rise of Skywalker in 2019, according to a report in Variety New films in the Star Wars series from Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and...
  • Tim Robbins backs Woody Harrelson’s call to end Covid protocols on set
    Monday, March 6, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    Shawshank Redemption actor tweeted in support of a recent interview in which Harrelson called on-set Covid protocols ‘nonsense’ Tim Robbins has backed Woody Harrelson’s call for Hollywood to end Covid protocols on film and television...
  • This is England … and Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland: where to find the UK’s greatest film scenes
    Saturday, March 4, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    From aliens cruising Glasgow to punks rocking Belfast, most regions of the UK have had their big-screen moment. Our critics take us on a tour of some of their favourite locations Beats ( 2019) Livingston, 1994, and just as the Criminal...
  • ‘Eve Groves’ short film to feature an impressive new musical score
    Friday, March 3, 2023 from
    Eve-Groves-short-film-Fact-Not-Fiction-Films Fact Not Fiction Films' new public information short film ‘Eve Groves’ is an important lobular breast cancer awareness film being made to support the ‘Lobular Moon Shot Project’.
  • My kids often baffle me. But at least we agree on subtitles | Adrian Chiles
    Wednesday, March 1, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    Research suggests young people use subtitles more than their elders. I suspect this reflects their love of text – and the vagaries of today’s sound designers ‘Those subtitles,” said my dad with feeling as the credits rolled, “were the...
  • Enhancing Film Industry Education for Multilingual Students through Translation and Localization
    Monday, February 27, 2023 from
    Why localization and translation are playing a crucial role in making movies successful around the world.
  • Warner Bros. Discovery Sues Paramount For An “Illicit Conspiracy” To Circumvent $500M ‘South Park’ Deal
    Monday, February 27, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    WBD says Paramount used "verbal trickery" to circumvent the terms of their 2019 agreement.
  • Walter Mirisch obituary
    Sunday, February 26, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    Producer whose trust in his film-makers led to a string of popular, Oscar-nominated movies Walter Mirisch, who has died aged 101, was one of the few film producers of the post-Hollywood studio era who had the intuition and the know-how...
  • Importance of Language Education in the Global Film Industry: Opportunities and Challenges
    Friday, February 24, 2023 from
    Filmmaking learning different languages Language education can enhance your creative side. It has the potential to not only boost your creative skills but also open up a plethora of opportunities for you.
  • Cineworld shares plunge after it receives no all-cash offers to save business
    Friday, February 24, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    Any bankruptcy rescue deal for London-listed group would wipe out shareholders Shares in Cineworld have plunged further after the movie chain said it had received no all-cash offers from potential suitors to save its global business, and...
  • New Lord of the Rings films in the works at Warner Bros
    Thursday, February 23, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    Announcement comes 20 years after Peter Jackson’s trilogy was released and amid a scramble for franchises at Warner Bros Discovery Cinema is heading back to Middle-earth, with Warner Bros and New Line signing a deal to make more...
  • After 25 Years, Canada’s Teletoon Channel Is Ending. It Will Rebrand as Cartoon Network.
    Wednesday, February 22, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    In a concurrent move, the current Canadian Cartoon Network channel will rebrand as Boomerang.
  • Report: 2022 Was The Second-Best Year Ever For Gaming Investment, Mergers, and Acquisitions, And 2023 Could Be Even Better
    Tuesday, February 21, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    After two strong years back-to-back, the gaming industry could be looking at a historic 2023 if Microsoft gets its way.
  • ‘I’m a film-maker because of him’: Herzog, Swinton, Rushdie and more on Tom Luddy, cinema’s quiet titan
    Tuesday, February 21, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    Friends and film-makers including Errol Morris, Laurie Anderson and Adam Curtis on the brilliance of Telluride’s Tom Luddy, who has died aged 79 Almost 50 years ago, Tom Luddy co-founded the Telluride film festival, a small and...
  • The return of #BaftasSoWhite, three years after diversity outcry
    Monday, February 20, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    With no wins for people of colour, actors’ union Equity says pool of nominees is not diverse enough Three years after the outcry over an all-white acting nominations line-up overshadowed the British Academy of Film and Television Arts...
  • Amazon, Superplastic Close First-Look Deal, Amazon Studios Developing Janky & Guggimon Animated Series
    Wednesday, February 15, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    Amazon's Alexa Fund also led a $20 million Series A fundraising effort for Superplastic.
  • Genius Brands’ Frederator Network Signs First-Look Deal For Content From Buzzfeed Animation Lab
    Wednesday, February 15, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    The first Buzzfeed IP short-form content for series development by Frederator will be 'The Land of Boggs.'
  • Stable Diffusion Is Launching An AI Text-To-Animation Tool In Partnership With Krikey
    Monday, February 13, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    Krikey says that AI animation can be “the foundation of the next creator economy.”
  • Cineworld shares jump on reports of takeover offer from Vue
    Monday, February 13, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    Debt-laden chain was forced into bankruptcy protection in the US after struggling to recover from pandemic closures Shares in the embattled cinema operator Cineworld jumped on reports of a takeover offer from rival company Vue...
  • Disney Is Laying Off 7,000 Workers. Our New Video Essay Explains What CEO Bob Iger Is Doing.
    Thursday, February 9, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    Watch our collab video with The Investor Channel host Colin Tedards as he explains how to read quarterly earnings reports, and why Disney is laying off 7,000 people.
  • Aardman Boss Warns U.K. Animation Will ‘Go Off The Edge Of A Cliff’ Without Government Aid
    Monday, February 6, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    Aardman managing director Sean Clarke also lamented poor animation education standards in the U.K. and said graduates who enter the workforce are not "production-ready."
  • Kate Wilson obituary
    Thursday, February 2, 2023 from Film industry | The Guardian
    My friend Kate Wilson, who has died aged 73, was one of Channel 4’s first business affairs executives. She spent 40 years in the industry, eventually setting up her own successful consultancy. Kate was born in London, to Judy (nee...
  • Film Translation Study Guide: Purpose, Process, and Facts
    Tuesday, January 31, 2023 from
    Film translation studies Film translation is one of the most entertaining and dynamic types of translation a person can do.
  • Hewes Pictures launches EFM Market sales with directorial debuts – Exclusive
    Thursday, January 26, 2023 from
    Hewes Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to several new films to be unveiled at EFM in Berlin next month.
  • ‘Hair Love’ Producer Lion Forge Animation Looking To Raise $50 Million Through Private Equity
    Thursday, January 26, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    The Oscar-winning Black-owned studio will use the funds to expand its staff, media library, and acquisitions.
  • How Language Studies Can Influence a Career of a Film Producer and Writer
    Thursday, January 26, 2023 from
    Being in the film industry requires you to have an open mind and allow new things to enter it constantly.
  • Deaplaneta Acquires BRB Internacional’s Library Of Animated Characters
    Tuesday, January 24, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    The acquisition includes 'The World of David the Gnome,' 'Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds,' 'Around the World with Willy Fog,' and 'Bernard Bear.'
  • NFT Company Doodles Acquires Trans-Atlantic Animation Studio Golden Wolf
    Tuesday, January 24, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    Golden Wolf CEO and founder Ingi Erlingsson will become Doodles' new chief content officer.
  • ‘Baby Shark,’ ‘Bebefinn’ Producer The Pinkfong Company Appoints David Levy As Head Of U.S. Studio
    Thursday, January 12, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    Based in L.A., Levy will head the development and production of original IP in short-form and long-form content and oversee co-productions.
  • Genius Brands Unveils New Platform Genius Networks, Consolidating Frederator Network, Kartoon Channel!, And Ameba
    Thursday, January 12, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    The new platform will combine the catalogs and creative networks of all three Genius subsidiaries under one banner, headed by Todd Steinman.
  • ‘Koala Man’ Showrunners Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit Sign New Deal With 20th Television Animation
    Tuesday, January 10, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    The duo signed a multi-year deal to create, develop, and produce new shows through their company Hermit House.
  • Why Did AMC And Netflix Drop Their Adult Animation Series ‘Pantheon’ And ‘Inside Job,’ And Could Either Come Back Elsewhere?
    Monday, January 9, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    Adult animation fans and artists take another hit as two more series get canceled, with 'Pantheon' removed from AMC+ entirely.
  • Why HBO Max Removed Hundreds Of Classic Looney Tunes Films From Its Service
    Saturday, January 7, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    Warner Bros. Discovery's latest move tramples over the company's rich animation legacy.
  • Toho Acquires 50% Stake In Frederator’s ‘Bravest Warriors’ And ‘Bee And Puppycat’
    Friday, January 6, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    The Japanese company will co-produce new content and consumer products based on three Frederator properties.
  • Struggling Vimeo To Lay Off 11% Of Workforce, Company President Resigns
    Thursday, January 5, 2023 from Cartoon Brew » Business
    Once an essential resource in the independent animation and filmmaking community, Vimeo has struggled to become a sustainable company after its pivot to a tech platform.
  • 8 tips for your next entertainment industry trade show
    Wednesday, December 28, 2022 from
    trade-show-tips-for-entertainment-business Entertainment industry trade shows are a fantastic way to secure new business and create market awareness with a targeted filmmaking audience.
  • How to make your short film go viral
    Monday, December 26, 2022 from
    short-film-viral Making a short film is an art form. It takes skill, talent, and a lot of hard work to create a movie that is both entertaining and successful.
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