Luma launches AI-powered production studio with faith-focused Wonder Project

The studio’s first project will be about Moses and star Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley, to be released this spring on Prime Video.

Runway CEO says AI could help Hollywood make 50 films instead of one $100M blockbuster

Runway’s CEO says AI could help studios make dozens of films for the cost of one, betting volume will boost hit-making odds.

Godzilla Minus Zero stomps through New York in first teaser trailer
Godzilla Minus Zero stomps through New York in first teaser trailer

*insert Godzilla screeching sound* Here’s the very first look at the next big kaiju feature. Godzilla Minus Zero will continue the story of 2023’s Godzilla Minus One, which returned the franchise to the more grounded tone established in the original film, and while the new teaser trailer doesn’t show a whole lot, it suggests some […]

The world’s oldest art, now in 6K IMAX
The world’s oldest art, now in 6K IMAX

The earliest paintings were made over 32,000 years ago – the very first forms of art and culture. They weren’t discovered until 1994, when cave explorers in France stumbled into the Chauvet Cave. More than a decade later, filmmaker Werner Herzog was allowed rare access to the highly guarded prehistoric site to shoot what would […]

Bloodborne is being turned into an R-rated animated film
Bloodborne is being turned into an R-rated animated film

It’s not a PC port or a remake, but Sony is returning to the Gothic world of Bloodborne. There aren’t many details yet – Sony says that “plot details are still being kept under wraps” – but the game is being adapted into “an R-rated animated feature,” with YouTuber Seán “Jacksepticeye” McLoughlin (a known Bloodborne […]

The Iranian Lego AI video creators credit their virality to ‘heart’
The Iranian Lego AI video creators credit their virality to ‘heart’

Donald Trump has spun the recent rescue of a downed airman whose fighter jet was destroyed behind Iranian borders as a resounding success. But the story is very different in one of the many viral, AI-generated Lego videos that have been produced by Iranian content creation group Explosive Media in the weeks since the US […]

The Exit 8 movie is even better if you play the game first
The Exit 8 movie is even better if you play the game first

There’s an intriguing new video game adaptation to watch in theaters – and no, it’s not that one. Exit 8, based on the game of the same name, hits the big screen on April 10th, and it’s part of a burgeoning trend of horror movies directly inspired by indie games and liminal scares on YouTube. […]

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is beautiful but a little too busy
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is beautiful but a little too busy

With The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Nintendo entered the next phase of its plan to become a different kind of entertainment giant. Though it wasn’t the company’s first go at putting its iconic plumbers on the big screen, the film demonstrated that Nintendo could collaborate with partners like Illumination to produce box office hits. The […]

Red Rooms makes online poker as thrilling as its serial killer
Red Rooms makes online poker as thrilling as its serial killer

It’s rare for a movie to get technology right. And it’s even rarer for that movie to be a thriller or horror, where realism takes a backseat to scares and tension. But Red Rooms mostly gets it. Nothing takes me out of a film quicker than a tech MacGuffin that might as well be literal […]

Some writing advice from Project Hail Mary’s Andy Weir
Some writing advice from Project Hail Mary’s Andy Weir

Andy Weir has done pretty well when it comes to adaptations. His first novel, The Martian, was turned into a movie in 2015, and the Ridley Scott-directed picture earned more than $600 million at the box office. And Project Hail Mary just had a huge opening weekend that puts it on track to be one […]