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Fujifilm has announced the Instax Square 2, a square-format instant camera that adds a mood filter switch letting users slide a warm or cool colored filter in front of the lens. The camera will launch later this month for $119.95 in slate blue, brick red, and misty white, alongside a new Soft Haze film variety priced at $18.99 for 10 exposures that produces reduced saturation and contrast with warm, diffused shadows.
Voice actor Aleks Le, who voiced Daredevil in 'Marvel Rivals,' has released a self-made short film titled 'Daredevil: Damned' in which he portrays the character on screen. The project follows his voice work on the character by about a year.
Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' will return to theaters again later this month, following a limited run in July that was not a one-time event. The film is now set to screen in theaters on an ongoing, regular basis going forward.
The film 'The Social Reckoning' debuted with a $5.5 million opening weekend, a figure characterized as a disappointing result. No further box office or production details were provided in the available report.
A new retrospective revisits Brian De Palma's 1974 cult film 'Phantom of the Paradise,' which follows a composer transformed into a monstrous figure after the music industry steals and exploits his work. The piece argues the film represents the creative peak of the horror-musical genre, a hybrid rarely attempted since.
Paramount Pictures is adapting CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 video game into a live-action feature film, according to Deadline. Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is attached to the project, though no release date or other details have been announced.
Microsoft's Xbox division revealed plans to establish a dedicated film and television arm aimed at adapting its gaming worlds and characters for linear storytelling formats. The initiative also includes creating authentic products for fans, hosting live events, and forming new partnerships with creators and brands. This move signals Xbox's broader strategy to diversify its entertainment presence beyond gaming.
The latest installment of the V/H/S found-footage horror anthology, titled 'V/H/S/Mixtape', has been released, featuring a mix of short segments including an appearance by the band Gwar. Reviewers note that while a few segments stand out, the overall collection fails to match the strongest entries in the franchise's history.
Production has finished on 'Twilight of the Dead,' a long-delayed project tied to George A. Romero's zombie film legacy. The completion of filming moves the project closer to release after years of uncertainty.
A new film from director Alejandro G. Iñárritu starring Tom Cruise has become a flashpoint of online debate, according to reports of a vocal fan group defending it. The project, referred to informally as 'Digger,' has drawn both strong support and criticism since its release or announcement.
A film photographer describes replacing a manual darkroom workflow—scanning negatives frame by frame and hand-editing each in darktable—with an automated pipeline using Claude to control a scanner via the SANE driver stack. An early attempt saw Claude invert the scanbed's X/Y directions, nearly damaging the scanner's gear mechanism, prompting the creator to rework the approach.
The SCP Foundation, the collaborative horror fiction project, has entered a creative partnership with film studio Neon to produce a second anthology film based on its stories. The announcement follows an earlier unofficial SCP anthology film, with this new project described as an officially sanctioned effort.