In its latest use of generative AI, Amazon has unveiled a Video Recaps service to visually sum up previous seasons for Prime Video viewers of popular shows like Reacher and The Girlfriend. The AI-powered tool, now in its beta testing phase on select Prime original series, uses narration, dialogue and music to recall earlier seasons of a TV series. Amazon...

TheInternational Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam(IDFA) on Wednesday unveiled the IDFA Forum Awards 2025. All Fixed Up by Hao Zhou won the IDFA Forum Award for the best pitch project. After struggling to straighten out their heir, a family pursues a dramatic masquerade that pushes the boundaries of care, identity, and cross-generational understanding, reads a logline for the project. Four Comrades,...

Prime Video is bringing the Stargate back online. The Amazon-owned streamer has ordered a new series in the beloved sci-fi franchise. The show, titled Stargate, comes from Amazon MGM Studios (which owns rights to the franchise) and creator and showrunner Martin Gero, who has worked as a writer and producer on the three previous live-action Stargate shows. Twenty years ago,...

New Money is Estonian writer-director-producer Rain Rannus fifth feature and a follow-up to his 2023 dramedy Free Money. And it asks a question many would love to have to debate: What would you do if you had 50 million? In this case, it is euros, which amounts to about $58 million at current exchange rates. The film had its international...

Elphaba and Glindas lives are about to be changed for good. On Tuesday, reviews were released for part two of the screen adaptation of the classic Broadway show, Wicked, which flies into theaters Friday. The musicals story centers on an unexpected friendship between Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande). While much of the first film, released in November 2024,...

Elle celebrated some of this years leading ladies at its annual Women in Hollywood event on Monday, with Jennifer Aniston, Emily Blunt, Rose Byrne, Teyana Taylor, Jessie Buckley, Chase Infiniti,Renate ReinsveandSinners Hailee Steinfeld, Jayme Lawson and Wunmi Mosaku all being feted. Among a sea of star-studded speeches and presenters, one of the biggest moments of the night came as Adam...

A handful of Hollywood talent have joined South Korean auteur Bong Joon Ho on the jury at this years Marrakech International Film Festival. Eight leading figures from four continents will decide on the prize winners at the Moroccan film fest, led by jury head and Oscar winner Bong (Parasite). With him will be American actress Jenna Ortega, best known for...

Last year, 169 films were eligible for the best documentary feature Oscar. Not even the most diligent members of the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences saw anywhere near that many before casting their ballots to determine the shortlist of 15 finalists or the five eventual Oscar nominees. There are just not enough hours in...

Latvian writer-director Alise Zarias (Nearby) new feature, Flesh, Blood, Even a Heart, celebrated its world premiere in the Baltic Competition at the29th editionof theTallinn Black Nights Film Festival(PFF) late on Tuesday, Latvias Independence Day. The coming-of-age dramedy follows Liv, a woman in her 30s who struggles with body insecurities. Once, Liv dreamed of being a Barbie and still hopes her...

Leslie Bibb has set her first project since checking into The White Lotus: a starring role in six-part Cold War crime series Top of the Rock. Bibb, who played vacationer Kate opposite Michelle Monaghan and Carrie Coon in season three of Mike Whites hit HBO series earlier this year, has signed on to play Captain Diane Goodman in the Icelandic...

On Aug. 19, 2023, Jonathan Daniel Brown sent a concerned email to two agents at Gersh. Brown, 36, had once been an actor, and had some success, most notably with a role in 2012s hit comedy Project X. But finding himself disillusioned with the acting world, he transitioned to producing, most recently with the comedy horror Fuck My Son!, the...

If theres one thing audiences will get from Ryan Whites new documentary Come See Me in the Good Light, its that its a truly beautiful love story. Poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley found each other through the beauty of words and honest, emotional expression. Their life together in Colorado is full of friends, fun and humor. In an increasingly...

What Happened: Amazons satellite internet project, which weve all known as Project Kuiper, just got a new name. Its now officially called Leo, which is a simple nod to its home in low-Earth orbit. But this isnt just a simple name change. If you read the fine print, its a pretty massive hint that Amazon is changing its whole strategy....