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French Startup IPFC Unveils AI Rights Model to Protect and Pay Creators
45+ min ago (320+ words) Variety French Startup IPFC Unveils AI Rights Model to Protect and Pay Creators In the run up to the Cannes Film Festival, French entrepreneurs Emmanuel Lipszyc and Thomas Cohen have launched IPFC, an ambitious new startup aiming to protect and…...
The Travel Companion" Review: A Bromance Goes Adrift in a Gently Wry Indie Amble
2+ day, 2+ min ago (854+ words) So frequently does New York-based independent filmmaker Simon (Tristan Turner) repeat the shaggy one-line pitch for the documentary he's working on " it's "a nostalgia-piece travelogue about past, present and future, a eulogy for lost history" " that he's probably long stopped…...
As War Rages, Iranian Cinema Takes on Fresh Urgency: "We Have to Process What We've Been Through'
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (738+ words) In Rome on the evening of April 4, as Iran was being pounded by U. S. and Israeli missiles, a large crowd celebrated the Persian new year in the Eternal City's Alcazar club dancing to Middle East beats, including vintage Iranian tracks by…...
Anniversary" Review: Dylan O"Brien and Phoebe Dynevor Unsettle in a Bleak Fable About Encroaching Authoritarianism
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (1044+ words) An all-American family is torn apart by an increasingly dystopian political landscape in Jan Komasa's too-timely take on where the United States could be headed. Because, borrowing a trope from great. .. "Anniversary' Review: Dylan O'Brien and Phoebe Dynevor Unsettle in…...
LISTEN: Happy Anniversary, Television! Revisiting the Medium's Launch at the 1939 New York World's Fair
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (656+ words) On today's 'Daily Variety' podcast, we revisit RCA and NBC's formal launch of television in the U. S. on this day at the 1939 New York World's Fair. LISTEN: Happy Anniversary, Television! Revisiting the Medium's Launch at the 1939 New York World's Fair 'Daily…...
Kamala Harris Calls Trump Administration "Corrupt, Incompetent" and "Callous" While Being Honored by Public Counsel in Los Angeles: "We Have to Be Ruthless, Too"
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (425+ words) Rita Moreno was also honored by Vin Diesel and Lin Manuel Miranda. Kamala Harris blasted the Trump administration as "corrupt, incompetent [and] callous" while speaking at Public Counsel's annual William O. Douglas Award Dinner on Wednesday night in Beverly Hills The…...
Jonah Hill Says It's "Bizarre' Kanye West Once Posted About Liking Jewish People Again Because of Him: "The Hate Stuff Sucks' but "He's the Greatest Artist to Ever Live'
4+ week, 7+ hour ago (775+ words) Variety Jonah Hill Says It's "Bizarre' Kanye West Once Posted About Liking Jewish People Again Because of Him: "The Hate Stuff Sucks' but "He's the Greatest Artist to Ever Live' Jonah Hill said during a recent appearance on "The Zane…...
Breaking Through the Lens Co-Founder Daphne Schmon on What Has to Change for Gender Equity in Film: "We Need Actions to Speak Louder Than Words
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (919+ words) Eight years ago, director, producer and editor Daphne Schmon was at the Cannes market attempting to get financing for her debut narrative feature, "The Eye," when she came to a realization: She didn't. .. Breaking Through the Lens Co-Founder Daphne Schmon…...
Soul Patrol" Review: Sundance Documentary Serves Up the Elegant, Elegiac Vietnam War History We Need
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (877+ words) Director J. M. Harper, along with veteran Ed Emanuel, gives voice to the forgotten soldiers of a Black special operations unit. In director J. M. Harper's haunting, revelatory documentary "Soul Patrol". .. "Soul Patrol' Review: Sundance Documentary Serves Up the Elegant, Elegiac Vietnam War History…...
'Resurrection' Director Bi Gan Teases Next Feature
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (16+ words) Bi Gan's fourth feature will "look into the human condition from a more minor perspective.'...