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The Cinema for Peace Foundation has unveiled the nominees for its annual Cinema Dove and Nobel awards celebrating films and world figures whose work tackles key issues of the time. The winners will be announced on February 16 at a gala event at the historic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, coinciding...Read more

TelevisaUnivision is rounding out the cast of their new reality competition, ¿Apostarías por Mí?, which is set to start on January 18. Alejandra Espinoza and Alan Tacher are the main hosts of the show, who will front the galas every night, and they will be joined by a trio of show...Read more

EXCLUSIVE: Watermelon Pictures has picked up North American distribution rights to White Man Walking, a feature documentary directed by filmmakers Rob Bliss and Denise Alder. The film, which was a Storyville title in the UK, follows white filmmaker Rob Bliss as he walks 1,500 miles across the U.S. wearing a...Read more

EXCLUSIVE: The Oscar-shortlisted documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin is getting a major lift just days before the Academy opens nomination voting. Kino Lorber today announced it has acquired North American rights to the award-winning film directed by David Borenstein and co-directed by Pavel Talankin. The distributor, which earned an Oscar...Read more

The 2026 Artios Awards film hopefuls have been cast. Casting Society this morning revealed the nominations for its 41st annual honors in eight categories spanning movie comedy, drama and animation and live theater. See the full list below. The nominations come ahead of the Oscars’ inaugural Best Casting award, which...Read more

EXCLUSIVE: Beleaguered STX Entertainment is attempting another reset with a new owner. Crown Productions, the film financing subsidiary of diversified insurance platform A-CAP, will lead the recapitalization and own 100% of STX. The CEO is Peter Coleman, a board member and chief executive of Film Services International (FFI), a holding...Read more

The Usual Suspects have figured out the Roland supersaw, the prettiest modular system you’ve ever seen, and more. Synth JournalShmøergh ModuleurDawned Instruments AcadieBlue Nautilus Acidus...Read more

Sundance's Beyond Film talks and events lineup will also include insights from Salman Rushdie, Ta-Nehisi Coates, John Turturro, Nicole Holofcener, Ava DuVernay, and Billie Jean King.Read more

The Artios Awards also honored film nominees for animated, international, and low-budget features, as well as London theater casting.Read more

Marcia Rodd, a Tony Award-nominated Broadway actor whose prolific TV career included two memorable episodes of the groundbreaking sitcom All In The Family – one of which served as a pilot for spin-off Maude and featured Rodd as the title character’s daughter Carol – died December 27. She was 87....Read more

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Washington, D.C.-based Seven Letter Communications is opening a Los Angeles office and former Disney/Hulu exec Brandon Shaw and Herbalife vet Casey Hernandez will lead it as the firm branches out into entertainment, corporate and the public affairs sphere on the West Coast. Shaw will be named partner and lead the...Read more

EXCLUSIVE: Alan Chikin Chow and Kareem Rahma agency Underscore Talent is kicking off 2026 by unveiling a slew of hires and promotions, with a former Paramount adult animation exec among them. Sachi Ezura, who was VP, Adult Animation at the Skydance-owned U.S. studio between 2021 and 2025, has joined as...Read more

On Thursday morning, A24 debuted the first trailer for Undertone, the horror film from first-time feature filmmaker Ian Tuason that they snapped up for worldwide release following its Fantasia Film Festival premiere, as we first reported last August. Undertone stars Nina Kiri as Evy, a paranormal podcast host who returns...Read more

EXCLUSIVE: Lynne Ramsay, the BAFTA and Cannes prize-winning writer, director, and producer, has signed with CAA amid the awards campaign for Die, My Love — her latest film, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. An adaptation of the 2012 novel by Ariana Harwicz, Die, My Love premiered to critical acclaim...Read more

Chef Elle Simone Scott, the first Black woman to appear as a regular host on PBS’ America’s Test Kitchen, who fought tirelessly for diversity and inclusion in the food industry, died Jan. 5 from ovarian cancer. She was 49. Her death was announced by her friend and fellow chef Carla...Read more

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With his immersive latest, the Filipino director deconstructs the record of Portuguese explorer and colonizer Ferdinand Magellan.Read more

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Winslet has told Deadline that there’s a “strong likelihood” of a second season of acclaimed HBO murder mystery Mare of Easttown going before cameras in 2027. Ever since the seven-part drama, created by Brad Ingelsby, about Mare Sheehan, a small town sergeant detective in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, investigating missing and murdered...Read more

Amazon MGM Studios has unveiled the first trailer for The Wrecking Crew, their action comedy starring Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa, which is slated for release on Prime Video on January 28. Directed by Blue Beetle helmer Ángel Manuel Soto, and set in the streets of Hawaii, the film watches...Read more

Travel and photography go hand in hand. There is nothing more suited for photography than capturing the memories of a trip. It doesn’t have to be a trip to a distant country or an African safari; even a quick day trip will have something new to encounter. Many of the...Read more

Retro-style photo and video aesthetics continue to surge in popularity—whether through classic film cameras or aging smartphones. Fujifilm is taking that trend a step further with the Instax Mini Evo Cinema, a new model that captures both instant prints and video with a vintage cinematic look. Previous Mini Evo cameras...Read more

CES is a time for flashy promotion, and the Lego Group, Disney Consumer Products and Lucasfilm joined forces for a notable one Wednesday night, lighting up the outside of Sphere in Las Vegas. The “Exosphere” of the entertainment venue was the giant-sized canvas for a live Star Wars video game...Read more

Travel photography setups may differ a bit from your everyday lens setup. Usually, the best travel lenses include wider-angle and (depending on the type of trip) longer telephoto lenses. The top travel lenses are lightweight, versatile, and perform well. You never have a second chance to capture the same majestic...Read more

When I realized I’d be laid off (via: restructuring) from the publication I’ve worked at for 11+ years, I went back through the print archives to round up work I was proud of as an interviewer and commissioning editor. It holds up better than I hoped: I came out swinging...Read more

The Cannes Jury Prize winner is also nominated for two Golden Globes and shortlisted in five Oscar categories.Read more

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The SSL autoSeries Bundle gives you three plugins for essential mixing and music production tasks, including autoEQ, autoBUS, and autoDYN. As always, SSL is constantly coming up with new solutions for...Read more

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Ric Roman Waugh's "Greenland" was a surprisingly good massive comet movie — this somber follow-up doesn't make the same impact.Read more

Exclusive: Canadian filmmakers Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli debut their new film on February 13.Read more

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The new honorary Emmy will only be given to a show, that among other criteria, aired a minimum of 60 episodes across five seasons, and sustained relevance and influence among genre, audiences, and culture.Read more

This week on CineD Focus Check, we sit down with cinematographer Oren Soffer, co-cinematographer on Gareth Edwards’ The Creator—the $70M sci-fi feature that sparked industry conversation for its minimal, agile approach to big-scale filmmaking. But this episode is not about camera specs. It’s an honest, wide-ranging...Read more

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Ian Tuason's feature debut, which wowed audiences at Fantasia in 2025, is heading to Sundance before opening wide in March.Read more

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For wildlife photographers and filmmakers, working at a distance is often part of the job, even if it limits how a scene can be captured. Remote camera setups offer one solution, but they are usually restricted by range. With the introduction of SmallRig’s Long-Range Wireless Repeater for Cameras, SmallRig...Read more