Cinema
Mike Tyson Searches for the Meaning of Life in a Netflix Documentary
Netflix's Tyson series finds the root of the champion's rage: he won the world for a mother and a mentor who died before they could see it.
Netflix
Cinema
Danny Boyle and Ben Affleck Just Gave Broke Studios a Green Light for AI
Danny Boyle says he would use AI again after putting Margaret Thatcher's face on an actor in Ink. With Ben Affleck and Alex Gibney, the stars are leading studios into AI.
Cinema
Netflix Called Cinemas Outmoded. Now It Is Copying Nolan’s IMAX Playbook
Netflix is cutting 1,000 jobs as Greta Gerwig's Narnia heads for IMAX screens, following the trail Christopher Nolan's record-breaking The Odyssey blazed this summer.
Hollywood
Netflix Disrupted Hollywood. Now YouTube Is Disrupting Netflix
Netflix is preparing to cut 5 per cent of its staff as YouTube takes its viewers and Skydance takes Warner Bros. The disrupter of Hollywood now looks like one of its studios.
Hollywood
Tech Bought Hollywood’s Studios. Now AI Is Coming for Its Stars and Awards
Sorkin's Zuckerberg sequel opens as an Oracle heir takes Warner Bros. and an AI-made film chases an Oscar. Hollywood tamed every earlier technology. This one replaces the talent.
Hollywood
Ben Affleck’s Hidden AI Tests Hollywood’s New Rules on Disclosure
Ben Affleck says he used AI for lots of things in Animals and will not say where. After three years of strikes, union deals and new awards rules, Hollywood's argument is about…
Hollywood
2021: The Year Hollywood Fought for Survival and Turned on Itself
Spider-Man crossed $1 billion, but original films were punished at the box office and found refuge on streaming.
Cinema
Gary Oldman Had No Footage of Mank, So He Borrowed His Brother
Herman Mankiewicz left no footage, no recordings of his voice and hardly a photograph. Gary Oldman tells Husam Sam Asi how he built Citizen Kane's writer from his brother Joseph, and why…
Cinema
George Clooney Gave Each Friend $1 Million. Now He Offers a Cure for Racism
Clooney recalls handing his friends $1 million each after meeting Amal, and explains how The Midnight Sky, his biggest film yet, offers a remedy for racism.
Cinema
Sacha Baron Cohen: Israel’s Spy in Damascus Was the Greatest Method Actor
First published in Arabic in September 2019: Sacha Baron Cohen on playing Mossad spy Eli Cohen in The Spy, duping Dick Cheney and why he gave $1m to Syrians.