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‘Witch Hat Atelier’ Anime Studio Explains Delay, Vows to Do Justice to Manga’s Spellbinding Artistry

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-05 21:45:38

Studio Bug Films hopes its adaptation of Kamome Shirahama's manga will be as big as 'Lord of the Rings' for anime fans. Studio Bug Films recently delivered the deflating news that its anime adaptation of Witch Hat Atelier would be delayed to 2026. In the wake of its announcement, the studio gave fans an update about the nature of its delay and reaffirmed its commitment to doing the best possible job transforming manga pages into animation. In an X/Twitter social media post, which links out to

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Orson Welles' Estate Disgusted by Amazon Remaking His Movie Using AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-06 17:14:20

Amazon is planning to use artificial intelligence to recreate destroyed footage from Orson Welles' 1942 film "The Magnificent Ambersons" — but the late directors' estate is calling bull. In a statement to Variety, a spokesperson for David Reeder, whose Reeder Brand Management handles Welles' estate on behalf of the auteur's daughter Beatrice, said that the family hadn't been informed of the project, which is slated to generate with AI the final 43 minutes of the film. Edward Saatchi, the CEO o

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Glen Powell Credits ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Star Chris Pratt with Ushering in a New Kind of Leading Man

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-06 17:39:49

Everything’s currently coming up Glen Powell—but as far as he’s concerned, he’s standing on the backs of actors before him. In GQ’s latest cover story, the Running Man actor talked a lot about the stars who helped him breakout, even indirectly. Chief among them, according to Powell at least, is Chris Pratt as Star-Lord in the first Guardians in the Galaxy. It can be easy to forget, but the transformation from Andy to Peter Quill was a big deal back in the 2010s, and Powell credits Powell with a

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Dwayne Johnson Casually Confirms ‘Jumanji 4’ Is Really Happening and Has a Release Date

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-06 21:00:00

Dwayne Johnson is on the media circuit at TIFF for his UFC biopic film, The Smashing Machine, but that didn’t stop him from giving a quick—but crucial—update to his reboot blockbuster series, Jumanji. According to Screen Rant, Johnson announced that a fourth installment in the series—more specifically, a third starring The Rock—is coming next year. While the news that a fourth Jumanji film is coming isn’t itself new, its status has been a little up in the air since at least 2021. Suffering from

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Guillermo del Toro makes Frankenstein his own

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-10-07 05:00:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Frankenstein is one of those stories that’s been retold countless times. And yet, Guillermo del Toro has managed to make a version that not only feels true to Mary Shelley’s original, but is also imbued with the trademarks the director is known for. Maybe that shouldn’t be too surprising — when presenting the film at its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this week, del Toro explained that

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Michael Caine May Come Out of Retirement for ‘The Last Witch Hunter 2’

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-08 01:15:10

Only for his bestie Vin Diesel will the legendary Michael Caine grace the silver screen again. The 92-year-old actor announced he was retiring a few years ago, but you can’t keep the endeared genre king out of the game for too long. Caine was last seen in The Great Escaper back in 2023. However, with The Last Witch Hunter sequel in the works, Variety reports that Lionsgate has approached the actor to reprise his role as Father Dolan. The production company is pushing the development of the Vin

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OpenAI Is Bringing an AI-Driven Feature-Length Animated Movie to Cannes

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-08 09:45:22

You knew it was bound to happen, and now, it has. The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI is lending its services to the production of a feature-length animated film called Critterz, which is aiming to be done in time for next year’s Cannes Film Festival. That would put its production time at nine months, which is unheard of for a feature-length animated film, but that’s because it’ll be created using AI. According to the paper, using OpenAI’s resources, production companies Vertigo Films a

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AI-Enhanced Version of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ at the Sphere Could Pull in $1 Billion

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-08 13:51:45

The biggest blockbuster of the summer came out 86 years ago. While some people balk at the idea of paying $12 to catch a film that’ll be on streaming platforms a month later, apparently thousands of folks are flocking to the Sphere in Las Vegas and dropping about $200 a ticket to watch The Wizard of Oz, according to a report from Bloomberg. The film is reportedly grossing about $2 million per day from its showtimes on just one (very large) screen. Citing information from Wolfe Research, Bloombe

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The 49 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now (September 2025)

wired.com Matt Kamen 2025-10-06 06:00:00

Netflix has plenty of movies to watch. Maybe too many. Sometimes finding the right film at the right time can seem like an impossible task. Let us help you. Below is a list of some of our favorites currently on the streaming service—from dramas to comedies to thrillers. If you decide you’re in more of a TV mood, head over to our collection of the best TV series on Netflix. Want more? Check out our lists of the best sci-fi movies, best movies on Amazon Prime, and the best flicks on Disney+. If

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OpenAI tech to be used to in a full-length animated film

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-08 20:59:21

OpenAI is throwing its resources behind a mostly AI-generated animated film that was the brainchild of one of the company's employees. As first reported by the Wall Street Journal , the film will be called Critterz and will follow forest creatures who go on an adventure after their village is disrupted by a stranger. Chad Nelson, a creative specialist at OpenAI, started designing the characters three years ago with the intention of making a short film using OpenAI's DALL-E image-generation tool

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OpenAI Wants This Film to Prove AI Animation Is Ready for the Big Screen

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 01:11:00

Can generative AI animate a decent movie? That question's getting an early test. OpenAI and production studio Vertigo Films have announced a plan to create a feature-length adaptation of a 2023 short film made as a demonstration for OpenAI's Dall-E image generator. The film, called Critterz, has a budget of less than $30 million, and producers hope to make the movie in about nine months -- in time for the Cannes Film Festival next May, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal. The sho

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Arco is stunning sci-fi with shades of Moebius and Miyazaki

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-10-09 05:00:00

The best part of going to a film festival is finding something new. Sure, it’s great to find out that movies you’re excited about are in fact good — I’ve had luck so far with Exit 8, No Other Choice, and Wake Up Dead Man — but it’s so much more exciting to be surprised by something when you had no expectations going in. That’s what happened to me when I walked into a theater to watch Arco, an absolutely gorgeous animated film from director Ugo Bienvenu, on day 4 of the Toronto International Fil

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OpenAI comes for Hollywood with Critterz, an AI-powered animated film

theverge.com Robert Hart 2025-10-09 21:56:43

Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI is on a mission to show Hollywood that generative artificial intelligence can deliver results and is throwing its weight behind an animated feature film it hopes will stand toe-to-toe with much costlier productions, according to the Wall

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AMC Hopes Its New Slash Pass Lures Horror Fans Into Theaters

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-09 18:25:36

This weekend’s The Conjuring: Last Rites kicks off fall’s slate of horror movies, and AMC Theaters wants to use the occasion to get more butts in seats. Enter, the Slash Pass. Beginning with Last Rites, theatergoers can use the Pass to see six participating horror movies, or do different combinations like seeing one of the specific movies with five of their friends. Horror movies tend to do pretty well financially, something AMC’s senior marketing VP Ellen Copaken highlighted in the press relea

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Wake Up Dead Man adds a delightfully dark twist to Knives Out

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-10-09 15:00:00

When director Rian Johnson introduced the new Knives Out film on the third day of TIFF 2025, he exclaimed: “we’re going back to church.” By that he meant that Wake Up Dead Man, the latest Benoit Blanc mystery, would harken back to the origins of the whodunit, and in particular the gothic vibes of Edgar Allan Poe. And now that I’ve seen it, I have to say that Johnson pulled it off: the new movie has a darker and more spiritual feel than its predecessors, and yet it’s still distinctly Knives Out,

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The 21 Best Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now (September 2025)

wired.com Matt Kamen 2025-10-08 23:00:00

In Recent years, Netflix and Apple TV+ have been duking it out to have the most prestigious film offerings, but some of the best movies are on Amazon Prime Video. The streamer was one of the first to go around picking up film festival darlings and other lovable favorites, and those movies are all still there in the library, so if they flew under your radar the first time, now is the perfect time to catch up. Our picks for the best movies on Amazon Prime are below. All the films in our guide are

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Amazon Startup Announces Plans to "Finish" Orson Welles' Lost Film With 43 Minutes of AI-Generated Footage

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-09 10:00:07

Recently, a minor miracle was achieved in the world of film preservation. A long-lost version of "A Better Tomorrow II" (1987), John Woo's sequel to his heroic bloodshed classic "A Better Tomorrow" (1986), was discovered and is now slated to be released to the public. For nearly 40 years, Woo's preferred cut of the Hong Kong action movie had been considered destroyed. When it was being made, the studio demanded that Woo's workprint, which ran nearly three hours, be pared down to less than two,

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Why is an Amazon-backed AI startup making Orson Welles fan fiction?

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-09 14:30:22

On Friday, a startup called Fable announced an ambitious, if head-scratching, plan to recreate the lost 43 minutes of Orson Welles’ classic film “The Magnificent Ambersons.” Why is a startup that bills itself as the “Netflix of AI,” and that recently raised money from Amazon’s Alexa Fund, talking about remaking a movie that was first released in 1942? Well, the company has built a platform that allows users to create their own cartoons with AI prompts — Fable is starting out with its own intel

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Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice is as bleak as it is hilarious

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-10-09 13:00:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. At my second day at TIFF 2025, the longest line I saw wasn’t for a movie: it was for the Criterion Closet. The space is housed in a van so that it could make it up to Toronto, and honestly, it felt a little wrong to see the outside of it after watching everyone from Michael Cera to Hideo Kojima spend time in its cramped interior digging through Blu-Rays. The line was long enough that I didn’t even bother tr

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10 Indie Genre Films We’re Excited for This Fall

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-10 01:15:05

You’d be hard-pressed to be a movie fan if you didn’t find a big Hollywood release to be excited about this fall. Maybe it’s the return of the Avatar, Predator, or Tron franchises. Maybe it’s a new film from an iconic filmmaker like Edgar Wright, Guillermo del Toro, or Yorgos Lanthimos. Or, maybe you can’t wait to be scared by new films in the Conjuring, Black Phone, or Five Nights at Freddy’s franchises. Whatever the case, as usual, Hollywood tries to have something for everyone. But there’s al

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Ryan Reynolds and Mark Ruffalo Are Both Downplaying Their Rumored Marvel Futures

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-10 09:00:46

Two massive, massive Marvel movies are set to release in 2026, and, according to two massive, massive actors, they may not be included. This week, both Mark Ruffalo and Ryan Reynolds downplayed rumors of their appearances in next year’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Avengers: Doomsday, respectively, but we aren’t quite buying it. To recap, earlier this year, news broke that Mark Ruffalo would be returning as Hulk in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, set for release July 31, 2026. That has yet to be of

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Showrunner wants to use generative AI to recreate lost footage from an Orson Welles classic

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-10-10 09:00:28

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Showrunner — the startup that wants to “revolutionize” the entertainment industry by charging people to prompt up AI-generated videos featuring copyrighted IP — is working on a new project to restore an Orson Welles classic. On Friday, Showrunner announced that it has designed a new generative AI model that is meant to help recreate

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The Horror Hit ‘Weapons’ Is Coming Home Sooner Than You Think

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-10 17:30:21

Whatever you do, don’t invite the creepy witch into your home. That is, of course, unless it’s on your TV and you’re sitting on the couch. One of this summer’s biggest surprise hits, Weapons, is now ready to make its trek home, and it’s arriving incredibly soon. The unique, sprawling horror film is coming to digital on September 9, followed by a physical release on October 14. Written and directed by Zach Cregger, Weapons is the story of a town shattered by a horrific event. One evening, an ent

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Amazon’s ‘Neflix for AI’ Plans to ‘Reconstruct’ Lost Orson Welles Film With Slop

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-10 17:50:00

Orson Welles’ 1942 film The Magnificent Ambersons has a complicated legacy—both considered one of the greatest films of all time and a complete mess that saw the iconic director’s vision stifled by his studio and the original cut destroyed. Somehow, the AI guys have decided that’s their signal to get involved. According to The Hollywood Reporter, an Amazon-backed generative AI company called Showrunner, the creators of a streaming service that lets subscribers create their own episodes of shows

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The Exit 8 movie is even scarier than the game

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-10-10 20:30:00

Greetings from Toronto, Canada! I’m braving long lines and busy streets for the next week or so to attend the Toronto International Film Festival, better known as TIFF, and I’m planning to take you all along with me. Each day I’ll be publishing a dispatch covering my time at the festival, including thoughts on every single movie I watch. As of now, I have more than 20 different features on my schedule so, uh, expect a lot of thoughts. TIFF is historically a nice preview of the fall and holiday

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Get Ready to Marathon ‘The Twilight Saga’ on YouTube, Loca

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-12 09:30:06

The millennial internet’s vampire and werewolf boyfriends are back to celebrate the young adult romantasy’s cinematic debut 15 years ago. The films propelled current Batman Robert Pattinson into superstardom alongside indie darling Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. Lionsgate had already announced a re-release for The Twilight Saga in theaters; to go with that, there’s now an internet streaming event, starting September 7. First up is the YouTube marathon for the chronically online fan, where

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The 35 Best Movies on HBO Max Right Now (September 2025)

wired.com Jennifer M. Wood 2025-10-12 12:00:00

As the birthplace of prestige TV shows like The Sopranos and The Wire, HBO—and, by extension, HBO Max—is best known for its impressive lineup of original series. The network has also been upping the ante with feature-length content that is the stuff of Oscar dreams. Below is a list of some of our favorite films streaming on HBO Max—from Oscar-winning epics to dystopian sci-fi classics. If you decide you’re in more of a TV mood, head over to our picks for the best shows on HBO Max. If you’re loo

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'The Thursday Murder Club' Has a Few Obvious Easter Eggs, and a Couple Hidden Ones, Too

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-12 21:00:03

Each week, Netflix drops a list of the top 10 films and TV shows dominating the platform, and for the week ending Aug. 31, the new crime caper The Thursday Murder Club was the No. 2 film on the platform. The film is a who's who of British talent, starring Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie as a quartet of sleuths living together in a retirement home called Coopers Chase. Their pastime is researching cold murder cases, and when one of the owners of their (gorgeous, castle-

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Oh, Biscuits! ‘Bluey’ Movie to Hit Cinemas August 2027

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-12 22:32:49

Parents, start those timers and mark those calendars: The Bluey Movie has a release date. It’s August 6, 2027. A mere 701 days away. We first heard that a feature-length film based on the incredibly popular Australian kids TV series was in development in 2024, and it will feature the titular blue heeler dog, Bluey, and her parents, Chili and Bandit, and little sister Bingo. Series creator Joe Brumm will write, direct, and executive produce the film, and the show’s voice actors Melanie Zanetti

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The Hand-Drawn Hits That Hollywood Isn't Making

news.ycombinator.com Animation Obsessive Staff 2025-10-10 03:08:23

Detail from a poster for Nobody (2025) by Shanghai Animation Film Studio Welcome! This is a new Sunday edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. Our lineup today: 1) Why 2D movies are booming elsewhere. 2) Newsbits. With that, let’s go! 1 – Stories that resonate Folks who follow the animation news have already heard. Right now, hand-drawn features are taking over. It’s happening in Japan, where Infinity Castle (of the Demon Slayer series) just became the third-biggest movie in the co

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‘Witch Hat Atelier’ Anime Studio Explains Delay, Vows to Do Justice to Manga’s Spellbinding Artistry

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