Browsing: 2026

AFI Announces Participants for the 2026 Cinematography Intensive Workshop | American Film Institute March 17, 2026

Celebrating AFI Alumni at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival | American Film Institute July 23, 2026

Comic-Con International: San Diego has always been a barometer for where the entertainment industry is placing its biggest bets, and this year’s lineup made that clearer than ever. Over the course of a single weekend, Marvel Studios, Prime Video, Apple TV, and AMC all used the convention floor to unveil casting reveals and first-look footage…

VENICE: The 83rd edition of the Venice Film Festival will showcase an important  selection of films produced or coproduced by FNE partner countries, from 2 to 12 September 2026.

As consolidation, shifting release windows and funding pressure reshape the film business, IND/EX 2026 showed independent exhibitors and festivals organizing around community value, operational resilience and a stronger collective voice.

April is off to a bruising start for people working in Hollywood. Since the month began, two major studios and one of Hollywood’s most high-profile production companies have announced layoffs totaling more than 1,000 jobs combined.

Adam Young as Marnûkh in The Rings of Power, season 3. Ben Rothstein/Prime Video

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The 2026 Venice Film Festival has unveiled a programme with a stronger focus on independent and auteur-driven cinema, featuring fewer films from major Hollywood studios than in recent years. Despite that, organisers expect another star-studded edition when the festival runs from 2 to 12 September.

Florian Zeller’s thriller Bunker, Martin McDonagh’s black comedy Wild Horse Nine and Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Loveare among the films set to world premiere on the Lido at the Venice Film Festival, running September 2-12.