Stockholm Fest to Honor Alexander Skarsgård, Benny Safdie

Stockholm Fest to Honor Alexander Skarsgård, Benny Safdie

Alexander Skarsgård and Benny Safdie will be honored at this year’s Stockholm Film Festival, with the Swedish actor receiving Stockholm’s Achievement Award, and the New York director getting the festival’s Visionary Award. Skarsgård’s latest Pillion, in which he stars as a domineering biker who begins a turbulent relationship with the submissive Colin, played by Harry…

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Tech Company Unveils AI-Generated Music Video Hosts

Tech Company Unveils AI-Generated Music Video Hosts

Tilly Norwood was only the beginning. FastStream Interactive, a group that designs tech for interactive TV channels, on Tuesday unveiled its new line of AI-generated TV presenters. The computer-generated images will be placed on FastStream’s interactive TV music channel, ROXi, mimicking MTV-style presenters by introducing musicians and clips. The interactive free-TV channel airs on Nextgen…

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National Film and Television School Director Jon Wardle Unpacks His 5 Takeaways From Graduate Impact Report (Exclusive)

National Film and Television School Director Jon Wardle Unpacks His 5 Takeaways From Graduate Impact Report (Exclusive)

The National Film and Television School’s (NFTS) Graduate Impact Report landed Tuesday, and director Jon Wardle is taking THR through its wildly impressive numbers. Every five years, the NFTS, located in Buckinghamshire, England — and included on The Hollywood Reporter‘s 2025 list of best international film schools —  collects an enormous amount of data demonstrating just…

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Luca Marinelli, Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch Re-Team for ‘Let Love In’

Luca Marinelli, Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch Re-Team for ‘Let Love In’

The team behind 2022’s acclaimed drama The Eight Mountains — Italian star Luca Marinelli and Belgian filmmakers Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch — are re-teaming for Let Love In, a romantic drama which van Groeningen will direct and Vandermeersch will star in, alongside Marinelli. Vandermeesch and Marinelli play a couple whose relationship is thrown…

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Spain’s Pedralonga Estudios Unveils Virtual Facility Coruna Immersive Studio 

Spain’s Pedralonga Estudios Unveils Virtual Facility Coruna Immersive Studio 

Cutting-edge technology, cost effectiveness, and “unlimited creativity.” That is what Spain’s Pedralonga Estudios promised at a launch event for its new virtual production facility Coruña Immersive Studio (CEI) on the third day of the fifth edition of Iberseries & Platino Industria in Madrid, Spain. It is equipped with “state-of-the-art immersive technology capable of recreating hyper-realistic environments that drive both the…

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‘Silicon Valley’ Showrunner on How Studios “Despise Writers,” “Terrible” Tech Execs, and What ‘The Big Bang Theory’ “Didn’t Get Right”

‘Silicon Valley’ Showrunner on How Studios “Despise Writers,” “Terrible” Tech Execs, and What ‘The Big Bang Theory’ “Didn’t Get Right”

The good, the bad, and the ugly sides of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and Europe were in focus in a day 2 keynote at the fifth edition of Iberseries & Platino Industria, in which outspoken Hollywood showrunner, screenwriter, and producer John Altschuler (Silicon Valley) shared insights and experiences. “The studios have always hated writers. They despise writers,”…

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