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Houston native Shannan E. Johnson, screenwriter, former TV executive and founder of The Professional Pen, shares her advice for anyone trying to break into Hollywood in an interview with The Defender.

The company BRAHMA AI, founded by Flemish entrepreneur Jo Plaete, has won a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for AI-based visual effects. The technology allows actors in films to be made to look decades younger or to speak a different language, whilst their voice and facial expressions remain the same. “This means a Flemish film…

The Google-owned video platform, the world’s largest television distributor and, as of this year, the globe’s biggest media company, wants the industry to love it, not fear it.

Paola Malanga is the artistic director of the Rome Film Fest, which kicks off on October 13 with the world premiere of The Sound of Something New (Il Rumore Delle Cose Nuove) by Paolo Genovese, the director of the local hit Perfect Strangers.

Near the turn of the century, “Can you hear me now?” was a popular Verizon advertising campaign. So, who would have ever thought two decades later that it would be the catch phrase for a movie about searching for a prophet?

Neon, the production company behind films like Parasite, Longlegs, and Anora, has decided it’s going to make its own SCP Foundation film–and, unlike A24, it’s actually communicating with the people who run the SCP wiki.

Representation is what puts us on the global map of everything, the music producer wrote on Instagram. 24 Sep, 2026

Interviewing director Francis Lawrence causes a strong desire to insert, at one point or another, the iconic line from The Hunger Games—“May the odds be ever in your favor.” The impulse is understandable (I’ve gone ahead and given in to it), but in the case of Lawrence, he largely made his own odds favorable through…

Present-day Grant Avenue during the Alfred Hitchcock San Francisco City Guides tour in San Francisco, Calif., on March 6, 2022. The tour’s theme was “How things have changed in the last 60 years,” referencing Alfred Hitchcock’s films such as Vertigo and The Birds. (Harika Maddala/Bay City News)Harika Maddala/Harika Maddala/Bay City News

The Portuguese actor and producer reflected with the audience on the importance of free and independent cinema