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Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Speaks Out on Jailing of Screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian in Iran Authorities in Iran have arrested the Oscar-nominated screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian in Tehran. Mahmoudian co-wrote the film It Was Just an Accident with dissident director Jafar Panahi, and their film...

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian, who co-wrote the film "It Was Just an Accident" with dissident director Jafar Panahi, has been arrested and imprisoned in Iran. We spoke to Panahi shortly after the news of Mahmoudian's arrest.

Hollywood Is Losing Audiences to AI Fatigue Entertainment about or made with artificial intelligence has been missing the mark with viewers over the past year.

Published my first piece at @wired.com today, about a string of AI thrillers that have bombed (most recent being the hopelessly naive Chris Pratt vehicle 'Mercy'), the backlash to Darren Aronofsky's YouTube slop take on the American Revolution, and a grotesque nostalgia-bait Super Bowl ad:

The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films The attention-span crisis goes to the movies.

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I weep for the future

Rob Reiner filmography between 1984 and 1992, which includes This Is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery and A Few Good Men.

This has to be one of the greatest runs any director has ever experienced.

Thank you for always supporting me @filmindependent.org ❤️!

The Black List 2025: Matisse Haddad’s ‘Best Seller’ Leads List Of Hollywood’s Best-Liked Unproduced Screenplays The 2025 Black List was announced on Tuesday morning, with 'Best Seller' by Matisse Haddad topping the list of Hollywood's best-liked screenplays.

Congrats to #FiFellow Allison Lee on making the Black List with her script 'Oh Yoko!'. 👏 Lee participated in Project Involve in 2012 and the 2017 Screenwriting Lab.
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‘The American Revolution’ Review: In Divided Times, Ken Burns Trumpets a Unifying Dictum: No Kings Much has changed in 250 years, but Ken Burns' encyclopedic study of 'The American Revolution' finds a rallying cry in rejecting despots —then and now.

Much has changed in 250 years, but Ken Burns' encyclopedic study of 'The American Revolution' finds a rallying cry in rejecting despots —then and now.

Miguel Rojas is from Venezuela. Just saying.

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

From “Me …Jane” by Patrick McDonnell

RIP Jane Goodall

BREAKING: Bad Bunny will headline the halftime show at Super Bowl LX.

ANDOR!

Black and white photo of Robert Redford ROBERT REDFORD AUG 18 1936 - SEP 16 2025

Natives in Hollywood would not be where they are today without this man. *I* would not be where I am today. He made the Sundance Film Festival & Sundance Native Lab I was in.

So much more than an advocate, he created space. He was one of the few who invested in our future.

To Robert Redford 🕊️ RIP

Hundreds Arrested in Immigration Raid at Hyundai Site in Georgia South Korea said it had expressed concerns to the U.S. about the raid and that it was trying to secure the release of its citizens.

"Among those detained were South Korean employees on business travel....

"The raid could raise concerns for South Korean companies that are sending personnel to the US and hiring locally."

It comes weeks after Hyundai pledged $26 billion in US investments.

Gift link ⬇️

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She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

Spike Lee, Adam McKay and over 2,000 writers decry Trump’s ‘un-American’ actions in open letter Screenwriters from Writers Guild of America, also including David Simon and Celine Song, call out president’s ‘authoritarian assault’ on free speech More than 2,300 members of the Writers Guild of America, including Spike Lee and Adam McKay, have signed an open letter decrying the actions of Donald Trump’s administration that represent “an unprecedented, authoritarian assault” on free speech. The letter, a combined effort from the WGA East and West branches, cites the US president’s “baseless lawsuits” against news organizations that have “published stories he does not like and leveraged them into payoffs”. It specifically references Paramount’s decision to pay Trump $16m to settle a “meritless lawsuit” about a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. The letter notes that Trump “retaliated against publications reporting factually on the White House and threatened broadcasters’ licenses”, and has repeatedly called for the cancellation of programs that criticize him. Continue reading...

Spike Lee, Adam McKay and over 2,000 writers decry Trump’s ‘un-American’ actions in open letter

Israeli settler accused of killing Palestinian released on house arrest Footage appears to show settler shooting West Bank activist tied to Oscar-winning film.

Awdah Hathaleen, who helped make the award-winning film "No Other Land," was shot dead in an unprovoked attack in the West Bank. The person who shot him, an out of control extremist settler, was released on house arrest. Shocking. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...

NOW with Bill Moyers: Maurice Sendak Bill gives viewers a look into the private world of Maurice Sendak in an unexpectedly candid interview.

RIP to Bill Moyers, about whom there is so much to say, but let's start with: what an interviewer. His sit-down with Maurice Sendak gives such a clear sense of who Sendak is & the way they immediately engage on big ideas is fantastic. vimeo.com/33284145

Review: Seeking solace in ‘El Norte’ In a film that balances poignancy with distress, myth with assurance and heroics with tragedy, there is a chord that is struck in tender moments and hopeful wishes. Whether those be glimpses of Americ...

El Norte (1983), directed by Gregory Nava, is a landmark film that brought global attention to the struggles of Indigenous Maya refugees symbolized through the journey of Enrique and rosa who flee violence during the Guatemalan Civil War. paisano-online.com/27224/arts-l...
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My Brain Finally Broke Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.

Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. Jia Tolentino writes about how more and more of the world is slipping beyond comprehension.

Mara Brock Akil Says Being Her Own ‘First Audience’ Led to Her Reinvention of Judy Blume’s ‘Forever’ For IndieWire's Future of Filmmaking, Mara Brock Akil talks reinventing Judy Blume novel 'Forever' in her own image. — 'What No One Tells You'

For IndieWire's Future of Filmmaking, Mara Brock Akil talks reinventing Judy Blume novel 'Forever' in her own image. — 'What No One Tells You'

Wired Headline: Ali WinstonSecurityDec 6, 2024 2:28 PM The Real Story of The Order The new film about an FBI agent chasing a white supremacist terror cell is based on a true story—and one that connects the headlines of 40 years ago to those of today. Image of Jude Law, Jurnee Smollett, and Tye Sheridan as two FBI agents and a local deputy from the film.

"The Order" on Hulu is based on real life, the 1980s neo-Nazi cell led by Aryan Nation dropout Bob Matthew's, and features The Turner Diaries, a novelized map for neo-Nazi revolt that Timothy McVeigh kept under his pillow, and apparently influenced Jan 6 participants.

Well done, worth a watch.

Will you post this talk anywhere?

Kansas babysitter checking for monsters finds man hiding under bed Police arrest suspect after sitter shocked to encounter man when trying to show child there was nothing under the bed A babysitter in Kansas who was asked by a child to check for monsters under their bed was stunned to discover a man hiding there, police have said. The shocking incident occurred on 24 March at a property just outside the city of Great Bend, when the sitter was seeking to put the children she was looking after to bed. However, one of them was afraid. Continue reading...

Kansas babysitter checking for monsters finds man hiding under bed

'The Studio' Is a Hilarious Love-Hate Letter to Hollywood 'The Studio,' Seth Rogen's AppleTV+ series, hilariously skewers the movie business with cameos from Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Zoe Kravitz and more.

I laughed a lot at Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's new Apple series The Studio, an equal parts bitter and affectionate Hollywood satire — that's also a stealth sequel to The Player?!?!

Stephen Graham's #Adolescence might be the most dizzying TV feat of the year. Here's how its creators pulled off those astonishing one-shots, the aerial lift and more.

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I am truly on the edge of my seat waiting for the episode of the show Paradise that inevitably uses a slowed down acoustic cover of the song "Paradise City" over its climax.