# Mise N Abyme


## Posts

- [Physical media matter, but rights matter more](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/physical-media-matter-but-rights-matter-more/): IndieWire talks about security and nostalgia. But mergers, streaming and AI reveal a much larger problem: audiences are losing their cultural rights.
- [Nolan Celebrates Gen Z’s Anti-AI Stance, but Only Looks at the West](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/nolan-celebrates-gen-zs-anti-ai-stance-but-only-looks-at-the-west/): Christopher Nolan argues that Gen Z is rejecting AI in cinema. But four children and two Western success stories do not represent a global audience.
- [Netflix in Talks to Acquire Letterboxd: Social Platform Valued at $250 Million](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/netflix-in-talks-to-acquire-letterboxd-social-platform-valued-at-250-million/): Netflix, Sony and Paramount are reportedly in talks to acquire Letterboxd, valued at $250 million. At stake are its community, data and film-discovery power.
- [Code for the People defends the future of the open web](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/code-for-the-people-defends-the-future-of-the-open-web/): Automattic, the company led by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, produced Code for the People: The Human Story of the Open Web.
- [Ridley Scott, AI and the Carbonized Scrolls of Herculaneum](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/ridley-scott-ai-and-the-carbonized-scrolls-of-herculaneum/): Ridley Scott is producing The Vesuvius Challenge, a documentary narrated by Guy Pearce about the project using X-rays and AI to read the Herculaneum scrolls.
- [Meta, Muse Image, and Users’ Faces: CAA’s Attack](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/meta-muse-image-and-users-faces-caas-attack/): CAA challenges Meta: Muse Image can use photos and likenesses from public Instagram profiles. The agency is demanding explicit consent, stronger controls and rapid removal procedures.
- [Tilly Norwood, the AI Actress Makes Her Debut with the Film Misaligned](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/tilly-norwood-the-ai-actress-makes-her-debut-with-the-film-misaligned/): Tilly Norwood will star in Misaligned: the first film featuring the AI actress shows how Hollywood is testing a new idea of performer.
- [Harvey Keitel and Cinema According to Aristotle](https://www.misenabyme.com/art-literature/harvey-keitel-and-cinema-according-to-aristotle/): At the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Harvey Keitel defends cinema as an aesthetic force capable of changing culture, broadening our vision and healing prejudice.
- [Maurizio Manzieri: The Art of Imagining the Future](https://www.misenabyme.com/interview/maurizio-manzieri-the-art-of-imagining-the-future/): The interview with Maurizio Manzieri explores the art of fantastic illustration, from science fiction covers to cinema, all the way to the arrival of AI within the creative process.
- [Neuromancer on Apple TV+: Cyberpunk Returns to the Source](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/neuromancer-on-apple-tv-cyberpunk-returns-to-the-source/): Apple TV+ is preparing Neuromancer, an adaptation of William Gibson’s novel: a series that could bring cyberpunk back to its industrial and political core.
- [Independence Day and the Apocalypse as a Global Holiday](https://www.misenabyme.com/review/independence-day-and-the-apocalypse-as-a-global-holiday/): Released in 1996, Independence Day is the film that turned alien invasion into a military parade, a civil mass, and a pyrotechnic spectacle of American hegemony
- [OMNI Awards Gaudette: AI Cinema Enters the Age of Judgment](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/omni-awards-gaudette-ai-cinema-enters-the-age-of-judgment/): OMNI Hyperphantasia awards Robert Gaudette among 3,800 AI films: with Alex Proyas on the jury, generative cinema is now a crowded ecosystem in search of selection.
- [The Mandela Catalogue: Spielberg Brings YouTube Analog Horror to the Big Screen](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/the-mandela-catalogue-spielberg-brings-youtube-analog-horror-to-the-big-screen/): From online phenomenon to Hollywood’s new object of desire: Amazon MGM Studios, United Artists and Amblin will bring Alex Kister’s horror project to the big screen.
- [Gillian Anderson Returns to Camp Miasma in Jane Schoenbrun’s Queer Slasher](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/gillian-anderson-returns-to-camp-miasma-in-jane-schoenbruns-queer-slasher/): Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder star in Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a queer meta-slasher that reclaims horror, desire, identity, and the myth of the final girl.
- [The X-Files Returns: Pilot Wrapped and Director’s Cut on the Way](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/the-x-files-returns-pilot-wrapped-and-directors-cut-on-the-way/): While the reboot developed by Ryan Coogler has just wrapped filming on its pilot episode, Chris Carter is working on a new director’s cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
- [Microdrama: When Stories Become Tokens](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/microdrama-when-stories-become-tokens/): Shortical raises $100 million, Instagram targets TV, Peacock tests ReelShort and India accelerates: all the data on the microdrama boom.
- [Human Consent Registry: Cate Blanchett at the EU Parliament](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/human-consent-registry-cate-blanchett-at-the-eu-parliament/): Cate Blanchett presents the Human Consent Registry: a free registry designed to protect faces, voices and identities from unauthorized use by AI.
- [Werwulf: Robert Eggers continues his archaeology of Western nightmares](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/werwulf-robert-eggers-continues-his-archaeology-of-western-nightmares/): Robert Eggers returns to the place contemporary horror cinema finds hardest to reach: the ancient darkness of what mankind cannot control, and has therefore always tried to transform into myth.
- [The Citizen Vigilante Case: When Controversy Becomes Circulation](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/the-citizen-vigilante-case-when-controversy-becomes-circulation/): Uwe Boll’s film starring Armie Hammer, blocked in Germany and amplified on X, has become the perfect case study for understanding how outrage is distributed today.
- [Robert Gaudette: AI and the Future of Independent Authorship](https://www.misenabyme.com/interview/robert-gaudette-ai-and-the-future-of-independent-authorship/): Robert Gaudette discusses A Face Only a Mother Could Love, generative AI, the Runway AI Film Festival, and the future of authorship between image, imperfection, and storytelling.
- [Tom Cruise Is Digger: Unrecognizable, Yet Still Indispensable](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/tom-cruise-is-digger-unrecognizable-yet-still-indispensable/): With Alejandro González Iñárritu’s new film, Tom Cruise seems to step out of the body of the action hero and into the more ambiguous one of the tycoon who causes the disaster and then expects to save us.
- [Microsoft Turns Gaming IP into Films, Series, and Licenses](https://www.misenabyme.com/gaming/microsoft-turns-gaming-ip-into-films-series-and-licenses/): Xbox is preparing more than a dozen films and series: from Sea of Thieves to Gears of War, Microsoft is bringing worlds already inhabited by audiences to the screen.
- [Cinema and AI: Hollywood’s Outsourced Dream Factory](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/cinema-and-ai-hollywoods-outsourced-dream-factory/): Festivals, tools and independent creators are building their own supply chain around AI cinema, while the old industry protects control, rents and slow decision-making.
- [Tarantino, Kylie Minogue and the New Indie Film Shot in Wales](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/tarantino-kylie-minogue-and-the-new-indie-film-shot-in-wales/): Quentin Tarantino and Kylie Minogue are in the cast of Tangled Up in Blue, the new Jamie Adams film shot in Wales with Visor Entertainment.
- [Shanghai Embraces AI, iPhone and VR: The Festival Becomes a Tech Set](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/shanghai-embraces-ai-iphone-and-vr-the-festival-becomes-a-tech-set/): At the Shanghai Film Festival, AI Backlot, iPhone-shot shorts and VR show how China is turning cinema into pure technological production.
- [The Hunted: Lilly Wachowski Brings Dystopia Back to the Stage](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/the-hunted-lilly-wachowski-brings-dystopia-back-to-the-stage/): Lilly Wachowski presents The Hunted with a live reading: the political thriller, also produced by Natasha Lyonne, arrives at Dynasty Typewriter.
- [Paramount-Warner: the merger moves from promises to cuts](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/paramount-warner-the-merger-moves-from-promises-to-cuts/): After the DOJ green light, the Paramount-Warner merger opens new fronts: jobs, archives, the FCC, foreign funds and control over audiovisual memory.
- [Synthetic Sincerity, Marc Isaacs’ subversive mockumentary](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/synthetic-sincerity-marc-isaacs-subversive-mockumentary/): With Synthetic Sincerity, Marc Isaacs uses a fake AI research project to strike at glossy documentary filmmaking: ordinary people disappear, and what remains are avatars and celebrities.
- [Amazon drops Guadagnino's Artificial after the OpenAI deal](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/amazon-drops-guadagninos-artificial-after-the-openai-deal/): Amazon Drops Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman Biopic, After OpenAI Partnership: “It Will Be Better Served by Another Studio”
- [Fortnite and Unreal Engine 6: Epic Redesigns Gaming](https://www.misenabyme.com/gaming/fortnite-and-unreal-engine-6-epic-redesigns-gaming/): Epic connects Fortnite, Unreal Engine 6 and generative AI. Skins, assets and creative labor enter a new industrial phase.
- [Robert Gaudette wins at the Runway AI Film Festival](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/robert-gaudette-wins-at-the-runway-ai-film-festival/): Robert Gaudette wins the Runway AI Film Festival with a short film generated by AI: art, labor and cinema enter a new industrial zone.
- [Fox Buys Roku: The $22 Billion Deal That Changes Streaming and Cinema](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/fox-buys-roku-the-22-billion-deal-that-changes-streaming-and-cinema/): Fox acquires Roku for $22 billion: it is not just streaming, but control over distribution, advertising and direct access to viewers.
- [Anya Taylor-Joy will play Seren in The Hunt for Gollum](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/anya-taylor-joy-will-play-seren-in-the-hunt-for-gollum/): The new film directed by Andy Serkis is taking shape: Ian McKellen is preparing to return as Gandalf in New Zealand, while Anya Taylor-Joy joins the cast.
- [AI in Cinema, the Lesson of Tribeca 2026: Fewer Prompts, More Craft](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/ai-in-cinema-the-lesson-of-tribeca-2026-fewer-prompts-more-craft/): At Tribeca 2026, Dear Upstairs Neighbors shows a concrete path for AI in cinema: custom-built models, artists in control, and carefully managed workflows.
- [Peter Weir Honored in Sydney: The Directorial Eye of the Storm](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/peter-weir-honored-in-sydney-the-directorial-eye-of-the-storm/): 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.
- [Escape from New York: Zack Snyder Working on the Remake](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/escape-from-new-york-zack-snyder-working-on-the-remake/): Zack Snyder will direct a new version of Escape from New York, John Carpenter’s 1981 cult classic: could Jason Momoa play Snake Plissken?
- [Bodies of Summer: The Film About a Generation That Refuses to Die](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/bodies-of-summer-the-film-about-a-generation-that-refuses-to-die/): 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.
- [White Lies: Oliver Stone Reunites Douglas and Dafoe](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/white-lies-oliver-stone-reunites-douglas-and-dafoe/): Michael Douglas, Willem Dafoe, Ellen Barkin, Homer Gere and Yvonne Chapman join the cast of White Lies, Oliver Stone’s new narrative feature.
- [Christopher Nolan, the Union Advocate Hollywood Can’t Ignore](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/christopher-nolan-the-union-advocate-hollywood-cant-ignore/): The DGA has reached a four-year agreement with studios and streaming platforms: with Nolan at the helm, Hollywood’s truce is about AI, cinemas and creative power.
- [Stargate Cancelled by Amazon? Fans Refuse to Give Up: #SaveStargate](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/stargate-cancelled-by-amazon-fans-refuse-to-give-up-savestargate/): Amazon MGM halts Martin Gero’s new Stargate series. Fans launch petitions and hashtags: can the sci-fi franchise still be saved?
- [Alex Proyas: To Have Something to Say, You Must First See Your Own Walls](https://www.misenabyme.com/interview/alex-proyas-to-have-something-to-say-you-must-first-see-your-own-walls/): Alex Proyas talks about The Crow, Dark City, I, Robot, AI, Vidiverse and the future of authorship in an interview about cinema beyond Hollywood.
- [I, Object: Andrew Niccol and the Comfort of Objects](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/i-object-andrew-niccol-and-the-comfort-of-objects/): The first trailer for I, Object reveals Andrew Niccol’s new film: grief, fantasy as a refuge after loss, and talking objects.
- [The State Wants a Stake in AI: The Private Party Is Over](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/the-state-wants-a-stake-in-ai-the-private-party-is-over/): The United States is considering public stakes in major AI companies. Between OpenAI, Anthropic, IPOs and dividends, artificial intelligence is becoming a matter of national power.
- [Hasbro and AI: the new market of behavioral likeness](https://www.misenabyme.com/gaming/hasbro-and-ai-the-new-market-of-behavioral-likeness/): Hasbro launches Sixth Wall, an AI studio designed to license characters such as Optimus Prime and Mr. Potato Head: the future of entertainment is becoming interactive.
- [Nolan, IMAX and the politics of the luxury theater](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/nolan-imax-and-the-politics-of-the-luxury-theater/): 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
- [Titan Quest 2, the early access that challenges Diablo](https://www.misenabyme.com/gaming/titan-quest-2-the-early-access-that-challenges-diablo/): Titan Quest 2 grows in early access with new masteries, summons, loot, and Greek mythology: the return of the classic Diablo-like against the live-service era.
- [YouTube beats Hollywood at the box office, now it’s waiting for it at the Oscars.](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/youtube-beats-hollywood-at-the-box-office-now-its-waiting-for-it-at-the-oscars/): The crushing success of Backrooms and Obsession against Star Wars shows that the new Hollywood will be born from YouTube, AI, microdrama and Big Tech platforms.
- [Clint Eastwood, the Artist Who Gave American Cinema Its Beat](https://www.misenabyme.com/portrait/clint-eastwood-the-artist-who-gave-american-cinema-its-beat/): Clint Eastwood turns 96 today. It is a number that, by itself, is enough to reopen the whole catalogue of the myth: the Man with No Name, the classical director, the last hard American still standing.
- [Fortnite Community Day Turns the Game Into a Live Ritual](https://www.misenabyme.com/gaming/fortnite-community-day-turns-the-game-into-a-live-ritual/): Fortnite Community Day shows how Epic’s battle royale has become a permanent live event, mixing rewards, story reveals, fandom and platform culture.
- [Steven Spielberg on AI: “Cinema Doesn’t Write Itself”](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/steven-spielberg-on-ai-cinema-doesnt-write-itself/): 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.
- [Tribeca legitimizes the first AI-generated political film](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/tribeca-legitimizes-the-first-ai-generated-political-film/): 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.
- [IMAX for sale: will streaming absorb the movie theater?](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/imax-for-sale-will-streaming-absorb-the-movie-theater/): IMAX is considering a possible sale: between streaming, Big Tech and premium cinema, the big screen becomes the last infrastructure to conquer.
- [Spotify,the Gen AI Bubble and the End of Listening to Others](https://www.misenabyme.com/music/spotify-the-gen-ai-bubble-and-the-end-of-listening-to-others/): Spotify is betting on AI, personal podcasts, remixes and generative content: user taste becomes the raw material of the new personalized audio.
- [Doug Liman Brings the Deepfakes of Power to Cannes](https://www.misenabyme.com/dossier/doug-liman-brings-the-deepfakes-of-power-to-cannes/): Doug Liman is preparing Bitcoin, formerly known as Killing Satoshi: a real cast, AI-enhanced faces, and Bezos, Zuckerberg, Putin, Kim Jong Un and Eric Trump thrown into the crypto blender.
- [Hollywood trains AI while Seth Rogen preaches at Cannes](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/hollywood-trains-ai-while-seth-rogen-preaches-at-cannes/): Seth Rogen attacks screenwriters who use AI, while many Hollywood workers are training algorithms just to survive.
- [Darren Aronofsky at the Cannes AI Summit, Seeking Absolution](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/darren-aronofsky-at-the-cannes-ai-summit-seeking-absolution/): 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.
- [Peter Jackson, Gollum and AI: Cannes Rewards Human Cinema](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/peter-jackson-gollum-and-ai-cannes-rewards-human-cinema/): At Cannes, Peter Jackson receives the honorary Palme d’Or from Elijah Wood and defends AI as a tool: but Gollum reopens the problem of the digital actor.
- [Poppy Cloned by AI: The Short Film That Puts the Machine on Trial](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/poppy-cloned-by-ai-the-short-film-that-puts-the-machine-on-trial/): Poppy stars in The Most Perfect Perfect Person, Paul Trillo’s short film about AI cloning, correcting, and replacing a public identity.
- [Avatar and the Digital Neocolonialism of Hollywood](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/avatar-and-the-digital-neocolonialism-of-hollywood/): Q’orianka Kilcher accuses James Cameron and Disney of using her face for Neytiri in Avatar: for Hollywood, the Indigenous face has become an asset.
- [Scarlett Johansson, perfect typecasting for Ari Aster’s Scapegoat](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/scarlett-johansson-perfect-typecasting-for-ari-asters-scapegoat/): Scarlett Johansson enters Ari Aster’s unstable territory. The project is titled Scapegoat, it will be written and directed by the filmmaker behind…
- [Gremlins 1st Assembly, the wildest and most anarchic version](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/gremlins-1st-assembly-the-wildest-and-most-anarchic-version/): A lost version of Gremlins has been found in Los Angeles: Joe Dante’s rough cut reveals deleted scenes, extra chaos and new monstrosities.
- [Hollywood and AI: The 25 (+25) Names Reinventing Cinema](https://www.misenabyme.com/dossier/hollywood-and-ai-the-25-25-names-reinventing-cinema/): From Ben Affleck to James Cameron, from OpenAI to YouTube: all the most influential startups, studios and activists in Hollywood during this period of technological acceleration.
- [Paradise Lost: Roger Avary Challenges John Milton with AI](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/paradise-lost-roger-avary-challenges-john-milton-with-ai/): Roger Avary, Oscar winner for the screenplay of Pulp Fiction and director of The Rules of Attraction, has chosen anything but an easy target: Paradise…
- [Artificial: Luca Guadagnino Brings OpenAI to the Big Screen](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/artificial-luca-guadagnino-brings-openai-to-the-big-screen/): Andrew Garfield will play Sam Altman in Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s film about the OpenAI crisis: Silicon Valley, artificial intelligence and power.
- [Chernobyl 40 Years Later: The Disaster That Never Ends](https://www.misenabyme.com/dossier/chernobyl-40-years-later-the-disaster-that-never-ends/): Chernobyl turns 40: technical data, Soviet lies, health effects, environmental contamination, and new risks from the war in Ukraine.
- [Alex Proyas Returns with Heaven: Sci-Fi and AI at the Marché](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/alex-proyas-returns-with-heaven-sci-fi-and-ai-at-the-marche/): Alex Proyas relaunches Heaven at the Marché du Film with Ex Machina Studios and K5: a sci-fi satire about the digital afterlife, produced with an AI pipeline.
- [Earth Day 2026: the real numbers behind Earth Day](https://www.misenabyme.com/dossier/earth-day-2026-the-real-numbers-behind-earth-day/): Earth Day 2026: official theme, climate data, energy, renewables, and power grids. Fortunately, Artemis II has given us a new family portrait.
- [The Real Problem Isn’t Spotify, It’s What It Changed in Music](https://www.misenabyme.com/music/the-real-problem-isnt-spotify-its-what-it-changed-in-music/): When people talk about Spotify, the debate is always the same: it pays too little, it is overcrowded, it is impossible to break through. All true. And all irrelevant.
- [Call of Duty Heads to the Big Screen: Paramount Sets the Film for 2028](https://www.misenabyme.com/gaming/call-of-duty-heads-to-the-big-screen-paramount-sets-the-film-for-2028/): Paramount is bringing Call of Duty to theaters on June 30, 2028, with Pete Berg directing and Taylor Sheridan writing. The goal: war, scale, and authenticity.
- [Heat, the documentary that turns heat into vertigo](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/heat-the-documentary-that-turns-heat-into-vertigo/): At Visions du Réel 2026, Heat by Jacqueline Zünd arrives: a sensory documentary set in the Persian Gulf, where extreme heat becomes climate, class, and a human alarm.
- [AI Music, Suno and the Majors: the Industry’s Turning Point](https://www.misenabyme.com/music/musica-ai-suno-e-major-il-punto-di-svolta-dellindustria-2/): Suno, the major labels, lawsuits, deals, and hard numbers: why AI music has gone from an industry taboo to a battleground and a business opportunity in the record market.
- [Jon M. Chu on Creativity, “Wicked,” and AI at Canva Create](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/jon-m-chu-on-creativity-wicked-and-ai-at-canva-create/): At Canva Create, Jon M. Chu talks about creative struggle, reveals a key detail from “Wicked: For Good,” and revives the “Crazy Rich Asians” musical.
- [Top Gun 3 Is in Development, but Will Tom Cruise Really Fly?](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/top-gun-3-is-in-development-but-will-tom-cruise-really-fly/): Paramount announced at CinemaCon that Top Gun 3 is in development, with the script already well underway. Cruise and Bruckheimer are reunited, but his return on screen remains uncertain.
- [Tribeca 2026: 103 World Premieres and Stars from Tarantino to Rudd](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/tribeca-2026-103-world-premieres-and-stars-from-tarantino-to-rudd/): Tribeca 2026 unveils its 25th anniversary lineup: 118 films, 103 world premieres, Tarantino as actor, Paul Rudd, Aubrey Plaza, and documentaries on AI, TikTok and politics.
- [As Deep as the Grave: Val Kilmer Rises Again on Screen with AI](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/as-deep-as-the-grave-val-kilmer-rises-again-on-screen-with-ai/): According to reports that emerged between March and April, Kilmer’s character occupies a very large portion of the film, with more than an hour of total…
- [Es Devlin: we are the ones who shaped AI’s Pandora’s box](https://www.misenabyme.com/art-literature/es-devlin-we-are-the-ones-who-shaped-ais-pandoras-box/): Es Devlin takes artificial intelligence out of technical language and brings it back to matter: clay, symbols, limits, and the relationship between humans and technology.
- [S1m0ne: Andrew Niccol’s Absolute Simulacrum](https://www.misenabyme.com/review/s1m0ne-andrew-niccols-absolute-simulacrum/): Andrew Niccol delivers a prophetic satire on Hollywood, stardom and synthetic images: in S1m0ne, the fake no longer imitates reality. It replaces it.
- [Cannes Marché du Film 2026: AI and the Creator Economy](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/cannes-marche-du-film-2026-ai-and-the-creator-economy/): The Marché du Film 2026 strengthens AI, the creator economy and innovation: Cannes is not watching change from the sidelines,it is already trying to monetize it
- [Living Offline Today: Can You Really Live Without Internet?](https://www.misenabyme.com/dossier/living-offline-today-can-you-really-live-without-internet/): Can you live without internet today? A realistic guide to backing up your life offline, from money and maps to documents, work and communication.
- [Black Holes: How They Really Work and Why They Warp Everything](https://www.misenabyme.com/dossier/black-holes-how-they-really-work-and-why-they-warp-everything/): Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, but they are not “cosmic vacuum cleaners” that randomly swallow everything. They are…
- [Artists Equity Accelerates: Writers’ Room and Netflix Alliance](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/artists-equity-accelerates-writers-room-and-netflix-alliance/): Affleck and Damon launch the Writers’ Room and strengthen their alliance with Netflix: in-house development, creative control and a new balance of power in global cinema
- [The Internet’s Horror Pleni: When Too Much Information Becomes Noise](https://www.misenabyme.com/art-literature/the-internets-horror-pleni-when-too-much-information-becomes-noise/): The internet produces more information than ever before. Information overload, anticipated by Gillo Dorfles in Horror Pleni, is changing the way we understand the world.
- [Filmart 2026: Asia Accelerates on AI as Hollywood Hits the Brakes](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/filmart-2026-asia-accelerates-on-ai-as-hollywood-hits-the-brakes/): At Filmart 2026, Asia is betting everything on AI in cinema. Hollywood remains stuck between lawsuits and unions while the future takes shape elsewhere.
- [Razzies 2026: War of the Worlds, the Punishment We Deserve](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/razzies-2026-war-of-the-worlds-the-punishment-we-deserve/): Cinema celebrates the best at the Oscars, but someone still has to deal with the worst. That is where the Razzie Awards come in: the ceremony that reminds…
- [The Great Return of UFOs Through Cinema, Documentaries, and Politics](https://www.misenabyme.com/dossier/the-great-return-of-ufos-through-cinema-documentaries-and-politics/): 2026. UFOs, Aliens. There's something curious that happens periodically throughout human history: every now and then, we start looking at the sky with suspicion again.
- [Gattaca: Andrew Niccol’s Minimalist Streben](https://www.misenabyme.com/review/gattaca-andrew-niccols-minimalist-streben/): In the genetically classist society of Gattaca, anyone born “imperfect” is forced to break free and win through the only force that escapes measurement: willpower.
- [Netflix Acquires InterPositive, the AI Startup Founded by Ben Affleck](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/netflix-acquires-interpositive-the-ai-startup-founded-by-ben-affleck/): Netflix is betting on AI for filmmaking, acquiring InterPositive, the company founded by Ben Affleck to support directors and creative professionals during production.
- [Sunshine: Danny Boyle’s Psychoactive Light](https://www.misenabyme.com/review/sunshine-danny-boyle-s-psychoactive-light/): Directed by Danny Boyle, written by Alex Garland and scored by John Murphy, Sunshine (2007) is a hypnotic work of science fiction, scorched by fatalism.
- [Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die: AI according to Gore Verbinski](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/good-luck-have-fun-dont-die-ai-according-to-gore-verbinski/): Gore Verbinski returns to directing after almost a decade with Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. And in recent interviews, he has used the occasion to express strong and critical views on the role of artificial intelligence in cinema.
- [Unavailable: what is happening on Emma Stone’s website?](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/unavailable-what-is-happening-on-emma-stones-website/): The surprising new Squarespace commercial, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Emma Stone, is a true auteur short film.
- [Project Hail Mary: the final trailer previews the release](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/project-hail-mary-the-final-trailer-previews-the-release/): Project Hail Mary, arriving in Italian cinemas on March 19, 2026, stars Ryan Gosling in the new film adaptation of the novel by Andy Weir.
- [Hollywood, Between Artificial Intelligence and the Protection of Labor](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/hollywood-artificial-intelligence-labor/): Hollywood is facing a period of intense turbulence in 2026, caught between job contraction, artificial intelligence, and the protection of digital identities.
- [The Dinosaurs, Steven Spielberg’s docuseries, is narrated by Morgan Freeman](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/the-dinosaurs-steven-spielbergs-docuseries-is-narrated-by-morgan-freeman/): The new prehistoric docuseries The Dinosaurs, produced by Steven Spielberg, will debut on Netflix on March 6, 2026. Let’s take a closer look.
- [In the Blink of an Eye: from the creator of WALL-E, coming soon to Hulu](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-from-the-creator-of-wall-e-coming-soon-to-hulu/): In the Blink of an Eye, WALL-E director Andrew Stanton presents the first trailer for his latest film at the Sundance Film Festival.
- [From The Matrix to AI: John Gaeta Brings Neo-Cinema Into the Living Room](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/escape-ai-neo-cinema/): The visual effects genius behind The Matrix, with Escape.ai, brings his experimental cinema platform into the living rooms of millions of users.
- [On This Day…1776: how AI is rewriting the American Revolution](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/on-this-day-1776-how-ai-is-rewriting-the-american-revolution/): On This Day… 1776, Darren Aronofsky’s new experimental animated series, sparks debate over artificial intelligence, authorship, and historical memory.
- [FUTURA 2026: Italian Cinema Puts AI to the Test in Rome](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/futura-2026-italian-cinema-ai-rome/): FUTURA 2026 brings cinema, AI and new rules to Rome. But between tax credits, contracts and EU obligations, the revolution has already ended up in the forms to be filled out.
- [Elon Musk Bets a Billion on Skydance's New Hollywood](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/elon-musk-billion-skydance-new-hollywood/): Elon Musk has invested around a billion dollars in the Skydance group formed by the combination of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, joining other investors in a fresh capital injection.
- [Sylvester Stallone Defends AI in Cinema: ‘Accept It or Be Swept Away’](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/sylvester-stallone-defends-ai-cinema/): Sylvester Stallone politely invites Hollywood to accept AI. If that is not enough, Rocky and Rambo still have something to say.
- [Robert Downey Jr. Becomes the Face of SPECS: The Former Iron Man Will Work on Content, Augmented Reality and New Experiences with AR Glasses](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/robert-downey-jr-specs-ar-glasses/): Robert Downey Jr. becomes SPECS' honorary CCEO. Between augmented reality, anticipatory AI and promises of presence, Snap stages its future.
- [Jean-Pierre Jeunet Defends AI at the 2026 Rome Film Fest: ‘It's a Tool, It Won't Replace Me’](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/jean-pierre-jeunet-ai-rome-film-fest-2026/): Jean-Pierre Jeunet discusses artificial intelligence at the Rome Film Fest while presenting Fresh Water for Flowers, starring Leïla Bekhti.
- [AI at the 2026 Rome Film Fest: Actors, Producers and Institutions Discuss How to Protect Artistic Identity](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/ai-rome-film-fest-2026-artistic-identity/): At the Rome Film Fest, actors, producers and institutions discuss voices, faces and artificial intelligence. The problem is not just who does the copying, but what gets signed.
- [TikTok Permanently Bans the Account of the Film ‘Musk’](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/tiktok-permanently-bans-musk-film-account/): TikTok bans the account of the documentary Musk. Between algorithms, bubbles and shorts, the film might circulate better precisely when it loses its original context.
- [Red Rising: The Hunger Games Director Will Lead Paramount's New Sci-Fi Saga](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/red-rising-francis-lawrence-paramount-film/): Red Rising returns to the big screen: Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to Pierce Brown's science-fiction saga and chosen Francis Lawrence, director of much of The Hunger Games series, to direct the film adaptation of the first novel.
- [Ramayana: Hans Zimmer and A.R. Rahman Compose the Score for the Indian Epic](https://www.misenabyme.com/music/ramayana-hans-zimmer-ar-rahman-score/): Hans Zimmer and A.R. Rahman are building a score for Ramayana that attempts to reconcile two worlds, preserving a very specific cultural identity within a film conceived for a truly international scale.
- [Frisco King: Paramount+ Release Date Set](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/frisco-king-paramount-plus-release-date/): Frisco King: we have an official release date. The Tulsa King spin-off starring Samuel L. Jackson arrives on Paramount+ in December.
- [The Oscars in Tokyo: The Academy Looks to Toho and Japan](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/oscars-tokyo-academy-toho-japan/): The Academy brings the Oscars to Tokyo: Bill Kramer meets Toho CEO Hiro Matsuoka as Japanese cinema accelerates its global expansion.
- [The Third Parent: Crispin Glover in the Tommy Taffy Film](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/the-third-parent-crispin-glover-tommy-taffy/): The Third Parent is the film based on the Tommy Taffy creepypasta, with Crispin Glover as a disturbing domestic tyrant.
- [Street Fighter: $70 Million Projected at the Box Office](https://www.misenabyme.com/gaming/street-fighter-70-million-box-office/): Street Fighter box office: the new film is targeting a $70 million worldwide debut. From the Van Damme film to the new cast, a look at Capcom's adaptations.
- [Paolo Strippoli at the EFAs: From the Meteorological Trilogy to the Oscar Race](https://www.misenabyme.com/portrait/paolo-strippoli-efa-meteorological-trilogy-oscars/): Who is Paolo Strippoli, the director of L'Estranea: from horror and Netflix to the EFAs and the Oscar race to represent Italian cinema.
- [BFI Film Academy 2026: It's Time Cinema Paid for Talent](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/bfi-film-academy-2026-paying-talent/): The BFI Film Academy 2026 expands free courses and paid placements. Behind the announcement lies the question of who can actually afford to enter the film industry.
- [Javier Bardem and the Romantic Toxicity of the Film Set](https://www.misenabyme.com/uncategorized/javier-bardem-romantic-toxicity-film-set/): In London, Javier Bardem defends safe sets. But his career reveals how long cinema has confused suffering, method, abuse and artistic quality on set.
- [Netanyahu vs NAZA: The Documentary's Sources Are the Target](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/netanyahu-naza-documentary-sources/): Benjamin Netanyahu wants the anonymous military sources in NAZA identified. At the same time, A Fidai Film revives a Palestinian archive seized in 1982.
- [Antonio Banderas Is Hernán Cortés: AI Revives the Epic](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/antonio-banderas-hernan-cortes-ai/): Antonio Banderas will play Hernán Cortés in a historical epic that failed to get made twenty years ago. This time, AI is part of the financing and production answer.
- [Rebellion: Elon Musk Bought the Megaphone](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/rebellion-elon-musk-migrants-bradford-12/): Rebellion brings the Bradford 12 back into the present. Elon Musk is an obvious target, but Britain learned how to manufacture an outsider long before social media.
- [Nicolas Cage Breaks With Amazon Over His Digital Likeness](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/nicolas-cage-amazon-ai-likeness/): Nicolas Cage says he refused an AI waiver for Spider-Noir and may be done with Amazon. His earlier experiences make the refusal less theoretical than it sounds.
- [AI and Cinema in 2026: Who Owns the Moving Image?](https://www.misenabyme.com/dossier/ai-and-cinema-2026/): AI and cinema in 2026 is now a struggle over authorship, synthetic performers, labor, production systems and who controls the moving image.
- [George Miller and AI: Will Lived Experience Become Optional?](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/george-miller-ai-lived-experience-optional/): George Miller says AI can imitate human experience without living it. The harder question is whether the film industry will still consider lived experience worth paying for.
- [Cyberpunk 2077 Movie: Paramount Enters Night City](https://www.misenabyme.com/gaming/cyberpunk-2077-movie-paramount-night-city/): Paramount is developing a Cyberpunk 2077 film with CD Projekt Red. The real challenge may be choosing a story without letting the franchise overwhelm it.
- [AI Music Has a New Problem: the Listener Can Be Fake Too](https://www.misenabyme.com/music/ai-music-streaming-fraud-fake-listeners/): AI music can be generated at industrial scale and streamed by bots. When both supply and demand can be automated, streaming economics starts to change.
- [Independent Pictures: Artists Equity Challenges the Megaproduction Model](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/artists-equity-independent-pictures-megaproduction-model/): Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are opening Artists Equity Independent Pictures, a new label backed by a dedicated fund for emerging filmmakers. The return to independent cinema sounds nostalgic. Its economics are not.
- [Local AI or Cloud? The Real Battle Is Over Where Intelligence Runs](https://www.misenabyme.com/dossier/local-ai-cloud-hybrid-models-future/): AI is moving back onto personal devices, but the cloud is not going away. The emerging architecture is hybrid — and it changes costs, privacy and platform power.
- [Paramount-Warner: The Skydance Empire Is Born](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/paramount-warner-skydance-empire/): The Paramount-Warner merger promises more movies. The failure of one expensive bet leaves a less comfortable question behind: who will still have permission to try something different?
- [The AI Data Center Is Becoming a System, Not a GPU](https://www.misenabyme.com/dossier/multi-chip-ai-data-centers-nvidia-interoperability/): The next infrastructure contest may not be about the best GPU. It may be about who can make different chips, memory and networks behave like one coherent machine.
- [Zurich 2026: Human-Made Cinema Becomes a Luxury Standard](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/zurich-2026-human-made-cinema-ai-luxury-standard/): At Zurich, MUBI promised to keep the films it produces away from AI while producers debated lower costs, new capital and shrinking financing options. The human may be on its way to becoming cinema's luxury standard.
- [After the Internet, AI Has to Learn How to See the World](https://www.misenabyme.com/dossier/ai-data-limit-after-internet-real-world/): The web gave AI text and images for free. Biology, robotics and science need observations that do not yet exist — and producing them changes the economics of AI.
- [AI Was Supposed to Cut Costs. First, We Have to Build It](https://www.misenabyme.com/dossier/hidden-cost-ai-data-centers-capital-inflation/): AI may eventually reduce costs through productivity. Before that happens, data centers, chips, energy and debt are already making the technology intensely physical.
- [Nicolas Cage and the Unbearable Weight of Hollywood](https://www.misenabyme.com/portrait/nicolas-cage-unbearable-weight-hollywood/): Nicolas Cage says the Marvel Cinematic Universe is becoming a glorified, heavily financed version of professional wrestling. At the same time, he is preparing another thriller and remains attached to superhero IP. The contradiction is less embarrassing than it looks.
- [Greta Garbo Returns with AI: Stardom Has Another Program](https://www.misenabyme.com/dossier/greta-garbo-returns-ai-digital-stardom/): Greta Garbo has been reconstructed with AI for an advertising campaign. Digital likeness vaults suggest a future where stardom can work in many places at once.
- [AI Agents Are the New Middlemen of the Platform Economy](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/ai-agents-platform-economy-new-middlemen/): AI agents may not eliminate digital platforms. They can place a new intermediary above them — one that controls the decision instead of merely the click.
- [AI Agents Don't Just Hallucinate. They Can Act.](https://www.misenabyme.com/dossier/ai-agent-security-risks-identity-permissions/): A chatbot can give a bad answer. An AI agent can send it, execute it or use credentials to act on it. That turns model risk into operational security.
- [Autonomous AI Agents: When the Conversation Ends but the Software Keeps Working](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/autonomous-ai-agents-how-they-change-work/): The real shift from chatbots to AI agents is not better conversation. It is software that can pursue an objective, use tools and keep working after the chat ends.
- [NAZA in 515 Cinemas: Applauding the Secrets of Power](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/naza-515-cinemas-secrets-power/): Awards, threats and a 515-screen Italian release give NAZA the aura of a forbidden revelation. The film also raises a less comfortable question about who gains authority from confession.
- [Werner Herzog: Don't Hand Your Dreams to Algorithms](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/werner-herzog-ai-algorithms-dreams/): At San Sebastián, Werner Herzog warned filmmakers not to surrender thought and dreams to algorithms. His real argument is less anti-tech than anti-predictability.
- [Post-Quantum Security Starts Before Quantum Computers Are Ready](https://www.misenabyme.com/dossier/quantum-safe-post-quantum-cryptography-migration/): The quantum threat does not begin on the day RSA breaks. Migration takes years, which makes cryptographic inventory and crypto-agility a problem for the present.
- [Paramount-Warner: Workers Get the Bill for the Merger](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/paramount-warner-merger-workers/): The WGA still says the Paramount-Warner merger will hurt writers, but it has withdrawn its lawsuit. The settlement guarantees films and investment, not the number of workers needed.
- [Digital Sovereignty: Europe's Real Problem Is the Exit Door](https://www.misenabyme.com/dossier/europe-digital-sovereignty-cloud-chips-ai/): Europe does not need to build every technology itself. Digital sovereignty begins with something less dramatic: retaining the practical ability to leave.
- [Star Wars: George Lucas and the Trilogy That Never Was](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/george-lucas-star-wars-lost-trilogy/): George Lucas had developed Episodes VII, VIII and IX before selling Lucasfilm. Darth Maul, Leia's political rise and the Whills reveal a trilogy Disney never made.
- [Paramount-Warner: Antitrust Clears the Merger by Regulating the Result](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/paramount-warner-antitrust-clears-merger/): The Paramount-Warner deal turns antitrust into a contract: fewer competitors, but quotas, investment floors and penalties meant to imitate competition.
- [John Wilson and the Movie Industry’s Love of the Mold](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/john-wilson-movie-industry-love-of-the-mold/): John Wilson wanted to make a documentary about concrete. The financing process turned the film into a study of how the industry tries to standardize originality.
- [Non Compos Mentis: Paul Schrader Moves His Noir Into the Family](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/non-compos-mentis-paul-schrader-family-noir/): Paul Schrader’s Non Compos Mentis shifts his familiar obsession with control from the solitary man to a wealthy family breaking under money, illness and desire.
- [James Cameron Buys Outsyders to Make AI 3D an Industrial Pipeline](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/james-cameron-outsyders-ai-3d-pipeline/): Lightstorm Vision’s acquisition of Outsyders joins native stereoscopic capture with AI-assisted conversion, aiming to make 3D faster, cheaper and scalable.
- [Tarantino Is Building Authorship That Can Survive His Retirement From Directing](https://www.misenabyme.com/portrait/tarantino-authorship-beyond-directing/): With a Cliff Booth novel and a David Fincher film from his screenplay, Quentin Tarantino is separating authorship from the obligation to direct every version himself.
- [YouTube and the New Cultural Sovereignty](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/youtube-new-cultural-sovereignty/): YouTube is moving from distribution platform to rule-maker: lobbying with streamers, entering TIFF and gaining new influence over how global culture is filtered.
- [Musk, Gibney and the HBO Max Problem: Distribution Becomes Part of the Documentary](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/musk-gibney-hbo-max-documentary-power/): Alex Gibney’s Musk documentary faces legal pressure while HBO’s ownership may change, turning the film’s subject—concentrated power—into a distribution problem.
- [The Last Photograph: Zack Snyder Finds Freedom by Making a Smaller Film](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/the-last-photograph-zack-snyder-indie/): The Last Photograph takes Zack Snyder away from green screens, franchise obligations and megabudgets, revealing how smaller production can restore directorial freedom.
- [Paul Walker, Fast Forever and the Point Where a Character Outlives the Actor](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/paul-walker-fast-forever-ai-digital-return/): AI could make another Paul Walker appearance technically possible in Fast Forever. The harder question is who has the right to authorize a new performance.
- [September 11, 25 Years Later: The Spectacle Did Not End, It Fragmented](https://www.misenabyme.com/dossier/september-11-25-years-later-cinema-spectacle/): Twenty-five years after 9/11, cinema is looking beyond the towers toward war, surveillance, memory and the fragmented media system that followed.
- [Gaza Cinema Academy and the Question of Who Owns the Images of War](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/gaza-cinema-academy-who-owns-war-images/): Gaza is extensively filmed but has little control over how its images are preserved, verified and distributed. The Gaza Cinema Academy targets that missing infrastructure.
- [Žižek, Utopia and the System That Learns to Sell Rebellion Back to Us](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/zizek-utopia-system-sells-rebellion/): The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias returns Slavoj Žižek to Sophie Fiennes’s cinema to ask why revolution is so easily absorbed as style, product and content.
- [Paul Schrader Says the Studio System Is Dead—and Acts Like He Believes It](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/paul-schrader-studio-system-dead/): Paul Schrader calls the studio system dead, finances films for a few million dollars and embraces AI. His real argument is that creative freedom follows the budget.
- [From the Grand Hall to Production Budgets: AI Runs Through Venice 83](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/venice-83-ai-art-production-budgets/): At Venice 83, artificial intelligence changes name depending on the room: artistic language in films, democratization at festivals, efficiency in production and a threat to trust.
- [Venice Biennale: The EU Cuts Funding While Loznitsa Points to Russian Gas](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/venice-biennale-eu-funding-loznitsa-russian-gas/): The EU revoked €2 million from the Venice Biennale over Russia’s return, while Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa argues that Europe’s continuing Russian gas imports reveal a larger contradiction.
- [Danny Boyle on AI: When Efficiency Becomes Obedience](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/danny-boyle-ai-efficiency-obedience/): Danny Boyle’s warning about AI journalism is not mainly about job losses. It is about whether a machine can challenge the people who own its model, infrastructure and distribution.
- [Musk: Gibney Says DOGE Could Become an Engine for Voter Control](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/musk-gibney-doge-ai-voter-control/): Alex Gibney’s four-hour Musk documentary links DOGE’s access to federal data with a warning: AI could turn administrative information into a system for political influence.
- [Tippett Studio Closes Berkeley and Auctions Forty Years of VFX History](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/tippett-studio-berkeley-auction-vfx-history/): Tippett Studio’s Berkeley workshop has closed, sending models and equipment from decades of effects work to auction while the company continues from Canada.
- [The New York Post Goes to Hollywood: 225 Years of News Become IP](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/new-york-post-hollywood-news-archive-ip/): A first-look deal with Crazy Legs Productions turns the New York Post archive into a development library for film, television and streaming.
- [The Social Reckoning: Facebook Faces the Consequences](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/the-social-reckoning-facebook-consequences/): Aaron Sorkin returns to Facebook sixteen years after The Social Network, shifting the drama from the platform’s creation to what the company knew about its effects.
- [After Amazon Studios, Roy Price Tries to Reinvent the Pilot](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/roy-price-n1bw-reinvent-pilot-microdrama/): Roy Price’s N1BW turns 60–120 second microseries into a public development system where every episode can function as a pilot, market test and production decision.
- [Busan 2026: Big Tech and AI Move Into the Film Market](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/busan-2026-big-tech-ai-film-market/): At Busan’s Asian Contents & Film Market, AI, cloud infrastructure, VFX, microdrama and audience biometrics are being organized into one production-and-distribution chain.
- [Donnie Darko: The Sequel Begins as an 800-Page Novel](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/donnie-darko-sequel-philosophy-time-travel-novel/): Richard Kelly is continuing Donnie Darko with The Philosophy of Time Travel, an 800-page novel designed to stand alone and potentially open the way to multiple films.
- [Paramount-Warner: Memory Is Left Out of the Guarantees](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/paramount-warner-memory-is-left-out-of-the-guarantees/): The Paramount-Warner merger would bring the CNN and CBS archives under a single owner. For documentary filmmakers, the issue is not only preserving them, but being able to use them.
- [The Hunted: Wachowski Accuses Hollywood as All-Trans Cast Becomes a Risk](https://www.misenabyme.com/art-literature/the-hunted-wachowski-accuses-hollywood-as-all-trans-cast-becomes-a-risk/): Lilly Wachowski says Hollywood likes the screenplay for The Hunted but does not want to finance a $10 million thriller with an entirely trans cast.
- [YouTube Brings Creators to TIFF: Official Showcase Launches](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/youtube-brings-creators-to-tiff-official-showcase-launches/): YouTube and Variety are bringing Mark Vins and Ziwe to the Toronto International Film Festival’s new professional market, where the creator economy is beginning to speak the language of the industry openly.
- [Miami Vice ’85: Alden Ehrenreich Joins Kosinski’s Reboot](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/miami-vice-85-alden-ehrenreich-joins-kosinskis-reboot/): Alden Ehrenreich joins Austin Butler and Michael B. Jordan in Miami Vice ’85, Joseph Kosinski’s new film that takes Crockett and Tubbs straight back to…
- [Paper Tiger: The American Dream Sinks into the Mud](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/paper-tiger-the-american-dream-sinks-into-the-mud/): The trailer for Paper Tiger brings Adam Driver, Miles Teller and Scarlett Johansson to 1986 New York, caught between the Russian mob, family and ambition.
- [Matrix 5: Warner Confirms Drew Goddard’s Film](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/matrix-5-warner-confirms-drew-goddards-film/): Warner Bros. Discovery has officially put Matrix back on its film roadmap: Drew Goddard will write and direct the new movie, Lana Wachowski remains involved, while Neo, Trinity and even the title are still uninitialized variables.
- [Asphalt Guerrilla: AI Declares War on Reality](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/asphalt-guerrilla-ai-declares-war-on-reality/): Edgar Pêra brings to Locarno a film about the FP-25 that blends autobiography, archives, fiction and AI-generated imagery. The real experiment, however, concerns what we are still willing to call memory.
- [Starman: Brendan Fraser Heads to Mars with Jeff Daniels](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/starman-brendan-fraser-heads-to-mars-with-jeff-daniels/): Brendan Fraser is heading to Mars in Starman, a new sci-fi thriller from Josh Wakely that brings together Jeff Daniels, Aisling Bea and a space mission…
- [Obi-Wan Kenobi 2: McGregor Pushes Again, Disney Stays Silent](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/obi-wan-kenobi-2-mcgregor-pushes-again-disney-stays-silent/): Between the Disney+ series and Alec Guinness’s Jedi, nearly a decade remains untold. The problem is that, for now, Lucasfilm seems to have left the project stranded in the desert.
- [The Legend of Zelda: Sam Neill and the New Faces of Hyrule](https://www.misenabyme.com/gaming/the-legend-of-zelda-sam-neill-and-the-new-faces-of-hyrule/): Sam Neill will appear in the live-action The Legend of Zelda, alongside Lydia Peckham, Dichen Lachman and Yvonne Strahovski: the cast of Hyrule is finally beginning to emerge from the fog.
- [All the Oscars Leonardo DiCaprio Missed](https://www.misenabyme.com/portrait/all-the-oscars-leonardo-dicaprio-missed/): Leonardo DiCaprio and the Oscars: all his most famous defeats and snubs, from Titanic to The Wolf of Wall Street and One Battle After Another.
- [Ready Player Two: Zak Penn Reopens the OASIS, but the Movie Is Still Far Away](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/ready-player-two-zak-penn-reopens-the-oasis-but-the-movie-is-still-far-away/): Zak Penn confirms he is working on Ready Player Two. Spielberg will produce, but there is still no director, cast, or greenlight: plot details, problems, and curiosities about the sequel.
- [DiCaprio and Bezos: $200 Million to Save 100 Species](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/dicaprio-and-bezos-200-million-to-save-100-species/): Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos launch the Phoenix Species Project: $200 million to save 100 endangered species across 30 countries.
- [Higgsfield and the AI Film That Rents Celebrity Faces](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/higgsfield-and-the-ai-film-that-rents-celebrity-faces/): Higgsfield brings streamers and UFC champions into Cully Hill Boys: an AI-generated film experimenting with licensed avatars, compensation, and filmmaking without a set.
- [Greta Gerwig at 43: Lady Bird, Barbie and the Road to Narnia](https://www.misenabyme.com/portrait/greta-gerwig-at-43-lady-bird-barbie-and-the-road-to-narnia/): Greta Gerwig turns 43: from indie cinema and Lady Bird to Barbie’s global success and the coming Narnia challenge, between authorship, industry and IMAX cinema.
- [Alan Ritchson Is Preparing a MotoGP Movie in the Fast & Furious Vein](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/alan-ritchson-is-preparing-a-motogp-movie-in-the-fast-furious-vein/): Alan Ritchson will produce a MotoGP thriller for Netflix, written by Chris Morgan: Interpol, stolen antiquities and a brother long believed dead.
- [From the Blacklist to AI, Locarno 2026 Questions the Power to Choose](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/from-the-blacklist-to-ai-locarno-2026-questions-the-power-to-choose/): From August 5 to 15, the 79th Locarno Film Festival moves from new films by Hong Sang-soo and Denis Côté to the nights of Piazza Grande, from the Hollywood blacklist to new sources of financing. The common thread is not a theme imposed on the films, but a concrete question: who decides what gets to reach a screen?
- [The Days Off: Trailer for Lucila Mariani’s Locarno Film](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/the-days-off-trailer-for-lucila-marianis-locarno-film/): The trailer for The Days Off follows Bego from the heat of Buenos Aires into reality shifting, an online practice that promises access to a desired reality.
- [The Philosophy Shared by The Odyssey and Oppenheimer](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/the-philosophy-shared-by-the-odyssey-and-oppenheimer/): Christopher Nolan explains the connection between The Odyssey and Oppenheimer: broken xenia, irreversible guilt and the limits of repentance.
- [Big Girls Don’t Cry: Sid Connects With the Older Crowd Through MSN](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/big-girls-dont-cry-sid-connects-with-the-older-crowd-through-msn/): In Paloma Schneideman’s feature debut, a 14-year-old tries to find her place among older teenagers through MSN and the still-limited technology of 2006.
- [Street Fighter: Blanka vs. Ryu, the community enters the arena](https://www.misenabyme.com/gaming/street-fighter-blanka-vs-ryu-the-community-enters-the-arena/): The new Street Fighter footage shows Jason Momoa’s Blanka battling Ryu, while three prominent figures from the fighting game community appear on screen.
- [Desperation: Sam Raimi Rediscovers Stephen King’s Ghost Town](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/desperation-sam-raimi-rediscovers-stephen-kings-ghost-town/): Searchlight Pictures is developing a new film adaptation of Desperation, the novel by Stephen King published in 1996.
- [Fortitude, the $45 Million Film Now Worth $105 Million in Court](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/fortitude-the-45-million-film-now-worth-105-million-in-court/): Fortitude, the spy film starring Nicolas Cage, has not yet been released, but an unencrypted DCP has disappeared from Netflix’s offices. According to the producers, the film’s exclusivity may have vanished along with the drive.
- [Star Trek Turns 60: Its Future Has Yet to Begin](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/star-trek-turns-60-its-future-has-yet-to-begin/): Unveiled at Comic-Con, Star Trek’s 60th-anniversary video spans series and films, bringing the humanist future imagined by Roddenberry back to the center.
- [AI Is Inevitable. So Say the People Selling It to Us](https://www.misenabyme.com/dossier/ai-is-inevitable-so-say-the-people-selling-it-to-us/): From Del Toro to Nolan, artists, unions and researchers are mounting increasingly influential resistance to the use of artificial intelligence. Yet an anti-AI front is not enough to create the cultural reverse shot still missing from the narrative of industrial inevitability.
- [The Real Odyssey Runs Through Prague: The Journey to 70mm](https://www.misenabyme.com/essay/the-real-odyssey-runs-through-prague-the-journey-to-70mm/): More than 22,000 moviegoers have traveled to Prague to see The Odyssey in IMAX 70mm, turning a film screening into a pilgrimage.
- [Neuromancer: The Teaser Opens Up William Gibson’s Cyberspace](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/neuromancer-the-teaser-opens-up-william-gibsons-cyberspace/): Apple TV unveils the first teaser for Neuromancer: Callum Turner is Case, a hacker recruited by Armitage for a heist in cyberspace. Premieres January 22, 2027.
- [The Rings of Power Season 3: Sauron Forges the One Ring in the Trailer](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/the-rings-of-power-season-3-sauron-forges-the-one-ring-in-the-trailer/): The trailer for The Rings of Power Season 3 shows Sauron forging the One Ring, introduces Celeborn and Khamûl, and announces the series’ return on November 11.
- [Blade Runner 2099: The Trailer Reverses Humans and Replicants](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/blade-runner-2099-the-trailer-reverses-humans-and-replicants/): Prime Video unveils Blade Runner 2099: Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer enter a Los Angeles ruled by replicants, across eight episodes arriving November 25.
- [Amazon Reactivates RoboCop, but Directive 4 Now Applies to It](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/amazon-reactivates-robocop-but-directive-4-now-applies-to-it/): Prime Video has ordered eight episodes of the new RoboCop series, entrusting Peter Ocko with a delicate mission: updating its satire of corporate power without neutralising it.
- [Netflix and AI: 300 Titles and the Ben Affleck Deal](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/netflix-and-ai-300-titles-and-the-ben-affleck-deal/): Netflix reportedly paid $587 million for InterPositive, while generative AI has already been used in around 300 of the group’s productions in 2026.
- [Ink: Danny Boyle Brings Rupert Murdoch to the Opening of Venice 2026](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/ink-danny-boyle-brings-rupert-murdoch-to-the-opening-of-venice-2026/): The film about Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of The Sun will open the Venice Film Festival on September 2, returning to the origins of the relationship between information, audiences and power.
- [Stallone Takes on Hollywood in the First I Play Rocky Trailer](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/stallone-takes-on-hollywood-in-the-first-i-play-rocky-trailer/): Before facing Apollo Creed, Sylvester Stallone had to contend with an older, more organized opponent—one far harder to knock out with an uppercut: the film industry.
- [Andy Serkis on AI, Diversity and Motion Capture in the New Gollum Film](https://www.misenabyme.com/cinema/andy-serkis-on-ai-diversity-and-motion-capture-in-the-new-gollum-film/): Andy Serkis clarifies how AI will be used for de-aging, discusses diversity in the cast and renews his campaign for motion-capture performances to receive proper recognition.
- [Netflix ♥ YouTube: Conquering the Creator Economy](https://www.misenabyme.com/tv-streaming/netflix-loves-youtube-conquering-the-creator-economy/): With the arrival of Alan’s Universe, Netflix is confirming an increasingly clear strategy: taking creators, formats and audiences already proven on YouTube and bringing them into its own catalogue.

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