#SAG-AFTRA calls for video game actors to join picket line

#SAG-AFTRA calls for video game actors to join picket line

The actors’ union which is already striking Hollywood movie studios called for a second strike authorization on Friday for video game actors. “Here we go again! Now our Interactive (Video Game) Agreement is at a stalemate too. Once again we are facing employer greed and disrespect,” SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher said in a statement.  The…

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#Harmony Korine on Making Psychedelic ‘AGGRO DR1FT’ With Travis Scott: “Vibe Is Almost Everything”

#Harmony Korine on Making Psychedelic ‘AGGRO DR1FT’ With Travis Scott: “Vibe Is Almost Everything”

Harmony Korine returns to the Venice Film Festival this week with his most experimental project in years, AGGRO DR1FT, an 80-minute screen experience that he doesn’t even really consider a movie. Taking the neon-bikini-and-guns aesthetic of his late career breakthrough Spring Breakers (2012) and elevating it into its own dimension entirely, AGGRO DR1FT was shot fully with thermal…

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#Global wildlife trafficking on the rise, aided by drug cartels

#Global wildlife trafficking on the rise, aided by drug cartels

Global wildlife trafficking is on the rise, adding a dimension to transnational crime and increasing the risk that U.S. corporations could unwittingly become entangled in the illicit trade. A new white paper by Moody’s Analytics highlights the growing risk for private enterprise, and the growing involvement of transnational crime in wildlife smuggling. “Brands sometimes are…

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#Lux Award Shortlist Includes Cannes, Berlin Winners

#Lux Award Shortlist Includes Cannes, Berlin Winners

The Lux Award, a film prize awarded by the European Parliament, unveiled the five finalists for its 2024 honor at the Venice Film Festival on Friday. The shortlist includes already-lauded favorites from the Berlin, Cannes and Sundance film festivals. On the Adamant, Nicolas Philibert’s French documentary about a unique psychiatric treatment center based on a…

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#Carbon capture is bad climate policy

#Carbon capture is bad climate policy

White House officials and Democratic lawmakers spent weeks celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, a legislative package that has been dubbed the most ambitious climate legislation of all time. While that is technically correct — it’s a low bar to meet — the political and practical benefits of the law are hard…

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