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Today — 16 February 2025Main stream

São Paulo State Ramps Up Film, TV Aid, Preps New On-Site Market

16 February 2025 at 06:28
Taking a significant step towards becoming a South American film-TV powerhouse, Brazil’s State of São Paulo is launching an Audiovisual Industry Development Plan. Among its initiatives are grants for movies that must be made in international co-production and a first São Paulo Audiovisual Hub event early this July, designed to become one of South America’s […]

Yesterday — 15 February 2025Main stream

Charles Burnett on His Soaring Romance ‘The Annihilation of Fish,’ Finally Released After 25 Years in Distribution Hell

15 February 2025 at 19:30
It’s not coming from a major studio, but there actually is a new romantic comedy getting a U.S. theatrical release this Valentine’s Day weekend — never mind that it was shot more than 25 years ago. The late James Earl Jones and Lynn Redgrave star as aging neighbors turned tender lovers in “The Annihilation of Fish,” […]

‘I’m Still Here’ Producer RT Features Joins Gabe Klinger’s Wine World Dramedy ‘Isabel,’ Urban Sales Brings Film to EFM (EXCLUSIVE)

15 February 2025 at 13:59
Brazil’s RT Features, producer of Walter Salles’ Oscar-nominated “I’m Still Here,” is backing “Porto” director Gabe Klinger’s São Paulo-set wine world dramedy “Isabel,” which is currently in post-production. “Porto,” the director’s previous film, executive produced by Jim Jarmusch, was acquired for theatrical distribution in over forty markets after its San Sebastián premiere in 2016. “Isabel” […]

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‘Vision Quest’ at 40: Matthew Modine Looks Back on His First Starring Role, His Most Embarassing Moment on Set and Sharing a Trailer With Madonna

14 February 2025 at 18:35
Released March 15, 1985, “Vision Quest” arrived smack in the middle of the ‘80s teen movie renaissance. It was preceded by John Hughes’ first two films, “Sixteen Candles” and “The Breakfast Club” (the latter by less than a month), as well as bona fide blockbusters like “Footloose” and “The Karate Kid,” making it seem at […]

Inside the WGA Awards: Can First-Time Nominees Beat Out Veteran Scribes?

14 February 2025 at 16:30
By definition, the WGA Awards celebrate the starting point for all great TV shows and films: the writers. “Writers are the one group of workers in this industry whose job begins with a blank page,” says WGAW President Meredith Stiehm. “Without us, there is no script for directors to shoot, no lines for actors to […]

How a Lone Feline Upended the Feature Animation Oscar Race With ‘Flow’

13 February 2025 at 18:30
One of the surprises of the awards season is Gints Zilbalodis’ “Flow” — the dialog-free tale of a solitary cat’s emotional journey as it learns to survive after a great flood — which upended the feature animation race when it won the Golden Globe. Combined with honors such as the Los Angeles Film Critics prize […]

How Best Picture Nominees Like ‘Conclave’ and ‘Emilia Perez’ Feel Different Under a Trump Presidency

12 February 2025 at 18:00
“Election season is not for the weak.” Even this statement in the Telluride Film Festival program last fall couldn’t have guessed how directly German director Edward Berger’s stunning papal thriller “Conclave” would tackle our then-ongoing election season.  The start of Berger’s eight-Oscar-nominee sees the sudden death of its fictional pope, with Ralph Fiennes’ Cardinal Lawrence […]

Why Hollywood Keeps Sending Rom-Coms Like ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ Straight to Streaming

12 February 2025 at 17:30
In “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” the neurotic, lovelorn heroine hasn’t just swapped cigarettes for Nicorette. She’s traded the big screen for Peacock, a second-tier streaming service where the franchise’s fourth entry will debut on Feb. 13. “[People] will watch this one at home,” says Helen Fielding, the author who created Bridget Jones. “If […]

Felicity Jones, Emma Corrin, Stephen Fry and Sharon Horgan Among Newport Beach Film Festival U.K. and Ireland Honorees

10 February 2025 at 15:00
Felicity Jones, Emma Corrin, Stephen Fry and Sharon Horgan are set to be honored at the upcoming Newport Beach Film Festival during its 2025 UK and Ireland Honors event. Fry will be recognized with the ICON Award, celebrating his over 25 years of experience and contributions to the film industry with notable roles in “Heartstopper,” […]

How the ‘Alien: Romulus’ VFX Team United Old and New Technology to Bring Ian Holm’s Android to Life

7 February 2025 at 18:30
Released just a few months after the 45th anniversary of Ridley Scott’s “Alien,” “Alien: Romulus” brings the franchise roaring back to life after a seven-year hiatus. Director and co-writer Fede Álvarez leveraged its complex mythology by staging his installment between the events of the original film and its 1986 follow-up “Aliens.” But just as important […]

Disabled Performers Advocate for Allies in Hollywood: ‘Inclusion Needs to Be a Movement and Not a Moment

7 February 2025 at 16:45
Having written about disability representation in Hollywood for several years now, I know that activism on the topic so often begins and ends with us. If you look at various award shows, and the few times Deaf and disabled people have won, it’s generally seen as a platform for deconstruction of how fervently they’ve advocated […]

Oscar-Nominated Doc Features Shine a Light on Dark Topics, International Stories and Global Politics

7 February 2025 at 16:15
Based on the feature documentaries nominated for an Academy Award over the last two years, it’s clear that if streaming services like Amazon, Apple and Netflix want to be real competitors in the race for The Little Gold Man, they need to start buying or commissioning bold, political titles. Like last year, the 2025 crop […]

How ‘Anora,’ ‘The Brutalist’ and More Oscar-Nominated Screenplays Explore the Corrupting Influence of Capitalism

6 February 2025 at 16:45
Historically speaking, awards season almost always feels like a war between art and commerce — even if the victor just comes down to whose campaign coffers are fuller than everyone else’s. But after a year of tremendous cultural volatility, both in the entertainment industry and across the globe, the films nominated for screenplay awards, including […]

Variety’s 10 Brits to Watch for 2025: Mia Tharia, Erin Kellyman, Nabhaan Rizwan Among Honorees

6 February 2025 at 16:30
From up-and-coming creators of all mediums to actors and writers, Variety has announced its 2025 list of 10 Brits to Watch. This year’s honorees will be celebrated at the Newport Beach Film Festival U.K. Honours on Feb. 12 at the Raffles London at the OWO.

95-Year-Old ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Actor Bill Walker Talks Fighting Racism in Hollywood in Unearthed Interview

5 February 2025 at 18:30
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation kicked off Black History Month by launching the fourth season of its Legacy Collection, a series of more than 200 never-before-seen career retrospective interviews. This season focuses on trailblazing Black film and TV actors — beginning with the late Bill Walker, whose career spanned nearly 50 years and more than 100 films […]

Annie Awards Set to Honor 2024’s Animation Achievements, Aid Community Hit by Fires

5 February 2025 at 17:45
The board of ASIFA-Hollywood, the organization behind the 52nd annual Annie Awards, pondered, like many other organizers behind events on the awards season calendar, whether the show should be postponed or scaled back because of the devastating fires that ravaged Los Angeles in early January. Many members of the animation community are among those who’ve […]

Sleeping pills stop the brain’s system for cleaning out waste

20 January 2025 at 16:54

Our bodies rely on their lymphatic system to drain excessive fluids and remove waste from tissues, feeding those back into the blood stream. It’s a complex yet efficient cleaning mechanism that works in every organ except the brain. “When cells are active, they produce waste metabolites, and this also happens in the brain. Since there are no lymphatic vessels in the brain, the question was what was it that cleaned the brain,” Natalie Hauglund, a neuroscientist at Oxford University who led a recent study on the brain-clearing mechanism, told Ars.

Earlier studies done mostly on mice discovered that the brain had a system that flushed its tissues with cerebrospinal fluid, which carried away waste products in a process called glymphatic clearance. “Scientists noticed that this only happened during sleep, but it was unknown what it was about sleep that initiated this cleaning process,” Hauglund explains.

Her study found the glymphatic clearance was mediated by a hormone called norepinephrine and happened almost exclusively during the NREM sleep phase. But it only worked when sleep was natural. Anesthesia and sleeping pills shut this process down nearly completely.

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Fire destroys Starship on its seventh test flight, raining debris from space

17 January 2025 at 04:44

SpaceX launched an upgraded version of its massive Starship rocket from South Texas on Thursday, but the flight ended less than nine minutes later after engineers lost contact with the spacecraft.

For a few moments, SpaceX officials discussing the launch on the company's live webcast were unsure of the outcome of the test flight. However, within minutes, residents and tourists in the Turks and Caicos Islands, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico shared videos showing a shower of debris falling through the atmosphere along Starship's expected flight corridor.

The videos confirmed Starshipthe rocket's upper stagebroke apart in space, or experienced a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" in SpaceX-speak. This happened well short of the spacecraft's planned trajectory, which would have seen it fly halfway around the world and splash down in the Indian Ocean after more than an hour of flight.

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Not just heat death: Here are five ways the Universe could end

14 January 2025 at 12:00

If you’re having trouble sleeping at night, have you tried to induce total existential dread by contemplating the end of the entire Universe?

If not, here’s a rundown of five ideas exploring how “all there is” might become “nothing at all.”

Enjoy.

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