Peter Weir receives the first AFTRS Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sydney Film Festival: a tribute to a cinema capable of giving shape to mystery without consuming it.
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Peter Weir receives the first AFTRS Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sydney Film Festival: a tribute to a cinema capable of giving shape to mystery without consuming it.
Zack Snyder will direct a new version of Escape from New York, John Carpenter’s 1981 cult classic: could Jason Momoa play Snake Plissken?
Rodrigo Teixeira will produce Bodies of Summer, Iván Fund’s new film based on Martín Felipe Castagnet’s novel: science fiction, death and digital consciousness.
Michael Douglas, Willem Dafoe, Ellen Barkin, Homer Gere and Yvonne Chapman join the cast of White Lies, Oliver Stone’s new narrative feature.
The first trailer for I, Object reveals Andrew Niccol’s new film: grief, fantasy as a refuge after loss, and talking objects.
Christopher Nolan turns The Odyssey into a political case:IMAX, AI, the DGA, the Academy and the future of movie theaters inside a new hierarchy of event cinema
Steven Spielberg sets his boundary on AI in cinema: it can be a tool, but it must not decide dialogue, directing, set design, or have the final creative word.
Dreams of Violets debuts at the 2026 Tribeca Festival: a live-action film generated with AI, 74-75 minutes long, with a reported budget of $2,000 and plenty of controversy.
Seth Rogen attacks screenwriters who use AI, while many Hollywood workers are training algorithms just to survive.
Darren Aronofsky defends the AI project On This Day… 1776 at Cannes, developed with Primordial Soup ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.