With little overlap with the Oscars, the 2020 Spirit Awards look to have a more diverse and inclusive group of nominees, setting their own standards.

Oscar's big winner, 'Parasite,' and war tale '1917' show how interactive entertainment is shaping linear storytelling — often for the better.

Peter Chernin, producer of the Oscar-nominated 'Ford v. Ferrari,' strikes a movie deal with Netflix.

Netflix announced on Friday that it would extend its relationship with Sandler, who has been working with the streaming giant since 2015.

They may not be classics, but people are watching and talking about 'Trolls World Tour,' 'The Platform' and 'Onward.'

Filmmaker Tayarisha Poe makes her debut with teen noir "Selah and the Spades," a tale of teen angst and control set in a Pennsylvania boarding school.

The 'Lego' movies were a key part of Warner Bros.' film strategy, but yielded diminishing returns.

With California debating reopening during the coronavirus, what's next for the movies? We asked Hollywood

The wide releases that are still planning to open between the Fourth of July and Labor Day include "Tenet," "Mulan" and "Wonder Woman 1984."

Photos capture Hollywood's movie houses in this pandemic moment.

Movies on TV this week, May 3 - 9: Raiders of the Lost Ark; Forrest Gump; The Road Warrior; Unforgiven

VE DAY is one of the most important anniversaries in British history - and in time for the bank holiday, a huge number of incredible war films are available to watch.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 6 is separate to a possible female-led spin-off, according to a Disney insider. We could be looking at two movies with Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow returning.

These are the Christmas movies we have to watch every year.

"Cultural Journey: Mexico" is sequel to India-themed event presented last summer by Heartland Film.

Even two filmmaking legends can cast the wrong villains amid massive industry change.

The director's New York Times op-ed reveals a longing for an age before tent-pole movies and streaming services.

Scarlett Johansson gets a "Black Widow" solo movie, and Jared Leto returns in "Morbius."

"Onward" and "Soul" deal with the eternal and the ethereal.

A deceased dad in the new "Onward" echoes some of Pixar's most moving moments involving absent relatives.

From "The Irishman" to "Little Women," his list was mostly consistent with popular critical thinking.

The controversial file hoster RapidShare has taken a first step towards entering the digital content business: The company launched a download store for video games last week, and it is promising its end users to enable the sale of any kind of file soon. Continue reading on Newteevee.com

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Many movie animation techniques are based on mathematics. Characters, background, and motion are all created using software that combines pixels into geometric shapes which are stored and manipulated using the mathematics of computer graphics. Software encodes features that are important to the eye, like position, motion, color, and texture, into each pixel. The software uses vectors, matrices, and polygonal approximations to curved surfaces to determine the shade of each pixel. Each frame in a computer-generated film has over two million pixels and can have over forty million polygons. The tremendous number of calculations involved makes computers necessary, but without mathematics the computers wouldn.t know what to calculate. Said one animator, ". . . it.s all controlled by math . . . all those little X,Y.s, and Z.s that you had in school - oh my gosh, suddenly they all apply." For More Information: Mathematics for Computer Graphics Applications, Michael E. Mortenson, 1999.

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A worker bonds with a North African friend over movies and finds opportunity for deeper discussions about faith.

Frozen II ices out the competition and skates to the top of the list.

Some studies reveal an association between exposure to alcohol consumption in movies and youth drinking, but the evidence is sparse.

Exposure to alcohol consumption in movies is associated with youth binge drinking, is little influenced by cultural differences between countries (Germany, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, and Scotland), and is specific to movie alcohol, not movie smoking, depictions. (Read the full article)

This research presents the first 2 experimental studies on the short-term effects of smoking portrayal in movies on children’s beliefs about smoking.

Exposure to movie smoking from cartoon and family-oriented movies had no effect on implicit associations toward smoking. For smoking beliefs, effects were again small and only statistically significant for social norms regarding smoking. (Read the full article)

Previous research has shown the following: the mere presence of weapons can increase aggression, dubbed the "weapons effect"; violence in films has increased over time; and violent films can increase aggression.

This study examines a potential source of the "weapons effect": the presence of guns in films. In just 20 years, gun violence in PG-13 films (age 13+) has increased from the level in films rated G/PG to the point where it exceeds the level in R films. (Read the full article)

Several experimental and observational studies reveal an association between exposure to alcohol consumption in movies and youth drinking, but little is known about the effect of such exposure on drinking onset among low-risk adolescents.

In a longitudinal study, exposure to alcohol consumption in movies was associated with drinking initiation in a sample of adolescents from 6 European countries who had never drunk alcohol and were attitudinally nonsusceptible to future use at the time of exposure. (Read the full article)

Movie ratings designed to warn parents about violence and sexual content have permitted increasing amounts of each in popular films. One potential explanation for this "ratings creep" is parental desensitization to this content as it becomes more prevalent in movies.

This study adds experimental evidence that parents become desensitized to movie violence and sex and are more willing to allow children to view such content. (Read the full article)

Arjun Kapoor shared a gut-wrenching post, wherein he reminisced about his life as an actor

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Because Amazon movie purchases are really just long-term rentals that can disappear from your library at any time.

The Platform, What Lies Beneath, The Witch, and more.

SBS On Demand is streaming more than 10 hours of his features. Our isolated film critic took the bait and watched them all

Many terrible things are discussed in the maelstrom of mayhem and misery I call my inbox – terrible, terrible things, such as requests involving me needing to go somewhere, or speak to someone or do something.

But last Thursday afternoon a lovely email broke through like a ray of sunshine piercing grey clouds on a stormy day. It was an email from a publicist at SBS. The subject line read: “Binge 627 minutes of ADAM DRIVER for free.”

Director Josh Trank opens up about the bitterness and resentment he felt towards comic book movies following the critical and commercial failure of his 2015 film Fantastic Four, and praises superhero filmmakers James Gunn and Zack Snyder.

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Directing a new Black Mirror film gives Jodie Foster the chance to look back at her own upbringing. The Hollywood titan talks to Tim Adams

Last week Charlie Brooker was recalling for me the moment he learned Jodie Foster would direct an episode of Black Mirror, his inspired series of one-off dramas about the ways our gadgets are colonising the idea of “human”. Brooker had written a script for the new series in which a neurotic single mother uses technology to spy on her young daughter and keep her safe from the world. The Netflix people suggested they tried the script out on the two-time Oscar-winning actor.

Brooker has had considerable global success with Black Mirror but still, the thought of working with Foster, “an actual icon”, made him come over, he says, “all British and starstruck”. He turned to his co-showrunner for the series, Annabel Jones. “We were like: ‘You’re kidding, right? You are going to try Jodie bloody Foster? Yeah right, of course you are.’”

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Viewers will get so used to watching new movies at home, they'll go out to theaters less, and fare will shift toward all comic books, says analyst.