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 Issue Date: 12/01/2025 | Click headlines for full story, pics, video or to comment
SHOOT News of the Day
Editing and Shooting For–and Collaborating With–Director Luca Guadagnino
On Monday (Dec. 1) Luca Guadagnino and Julia Roberts are slated to receive the 2025 Gotham Awards Visionary Tribute for After the Hunt (Amazon MGM Studios) at the 35th annual Gotham Film Awards ceremony in New York City. The Gotham Awards Visionary Tribute was created to recognize groundbreaking collaborations that push the boundaries of storytelling
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“Zootopia 2” Roars To Record-Setting Global Box Office Opening For An Animated Movie
“Zootopia 2” had a roaring, record-setting opening at the box office. The animal city sequel from the Walt Disney Company brought in $96 million in North America over the weekend, earned $156 million over the five-day Thanksgiving frame, and scored a staggering $556 million globally since its Wednesday opening, according to studio estimates Sunday. That
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British Playwright Tom Stoppard, An Oscar Winner For “Shakespeare In Love,” Dies At 88
British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love,” has died. He was 88. In a statement Saturday, United Agents said Stoppard died “peacefully” at his home in Dorset in southern England, surrounded by his family. “He will be remembered for his works,
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Review: Director David Freyne’s “Eternity”
Joan Cutler has an impossible decision to make in “Eternity.” The newly deceased character, played by Elizabeth Olsen, has one week to decide who she wants to spend her afterlife with and two husbands lurking and hoping that she’ll choose them. Luke ( Callum Turner ) is the dashing one who died in the Korean
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Review: Writer-Director Rian Johnson’s “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery”
After two installments of his “Knives Out” franchise skewered old and new money, director and writer Rian Johnson targets religion in his third, a gloomy and clunky outing that may test fans’ faith in the filmmaker. “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” gets a new starry cast to orbit Daniel Craig’s foppish detective
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Trent Patterson Named CEO At Publicis London
Trent Patterson has been promoted to CEO of Publicis London. Patterson was previously chief operating officer, a role which saw him lead client relationships and steer the day to day running of the agency, reporting into Charlie Rudd. As CEO, Patterson will continue to lead the agency’s management team and client portfolio, which includes brands
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Jen Beitler joins Park Pictures as sr. executive producer
Park Pictures has brought industry veteran Jen Beitler on board as sr. executive producer for the company’s Los Angeles office. With nearly three decades of experience in commercial production, Beitler brings deep creative expertise and a proven track record of building director-led work across live action, VFX, and animation. At Park Pictures, Beitler will focus
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How Tollywood Is Reshaping Indian Cinema
A fast-rising parallel film industry in India is competing with Bollywood’s musicals and action-packed films and has taken the world by storm: It’s called Tollywood. As Mumbai is to Hindi films — or Bollywood — the southern Indian city of Hyderabad is to movies made in Telugu, one of the country’s most widely spoken languages.
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25 Holiday TV Offerings To Watch Ranging From Comedies To Rom-Coms, Mysteries and More
Whether you prefer something naughty, like the animated movie “Grandma Got Ran Over By a Reindeer” or nice, like classics “The Sound of Music” and “Home Alone,” streamers, cable and broadcast networks offer up festive choices in December. Highlights this year include music specials with Derek Hough and Jimmy Fallon, the Rockefeller Tree lighting hosted
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What to Stream: “Jay Kelly,” Tom Cruise, “Spartacus” and “The Abandons”
George Clooney playing a dashing movie star with nagging midlife regrets in “Jay Kelly” and Zac Brown Band returning with fresh tunes are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment
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Issue Date: 12/01/2025 | Click headlines for full story, pics, video or to comment
SPW News of the Day
Boris FX Optics Delivers New AI Masking and Image Restoration Tools To Photoshop Workflows
Optics, the Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom plugin and standalone application developed by the award-winning team at Boris FX, introduces four new AI-driven tools that simplify previously traditional photo editing techniques. The 2026 release allows photographers and digital artists to tackle facial segmentation, depth map generation, noise removal, and upscaling with just a few clicks. It also delivers
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DWA Presents Ultimate Events, December 2025 Edition (Hybrid Special)
This year is almost history, but great things are still to come, as you’ll see in 2025’s final Ultimate Events edition. I hope you’re ready, willing, and able to celebrate what’s shaping up. Focused on sharpening skills for the new year ahead? Astute organizers are preparing to stage spectacular events guaranteed to blow minds and
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