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A retrospective look at Nobuhiko Obayashi's 1977 film 'House' highlights its surreal blend of horror and comedy, following schoolgirls terrorized by a haunted, living home. The piece praises the film's boundary-pushing, low-budget special effects and its enduring cult status among genre fans.
Camp Snap has opened preorders for the 110D, a pocket-sized digital point-and-shoot styled after the thin horizontal 110 film cameras Kodak popularized in the 1970s. It costs $74.95 and comes in two color options, packing an 8-megapixel Sony sensor, a 4.2mm f/2.0 lens with 30.5mm filter compatibility, five built-in retro filters, and a bundled 4GB microSD card.
In an interview with io9, director Na Hong-jin and actress Hoyeon discussed the ambiguous conclusion of their sci-fi film 'Hope' and addressed speculation about future installments. The pair offered insight into their creative intentions behind the ending without confirming concrete sequel plans.
Chinese filmmakers are increasingly turning to AI tools like ChatGPT, Kimi and DeepSeek to draft screenplays and generate footage, with one studio producing a 90-minute AI-assisted film for roughly $500,000 versus the millions typical productions cost. Director Lu Beike, known for the series 'Three-Body,' says AI-generated scenes still fall short of live performances, sometimes forcing crews to make real actors look less realistic so they blend with AI-generated environments.
JustWatch, best known as a guide for finding where to stream content, announced at the Toronto International Film Festival that it will launch its own platform called JustWatch TV in October. The service will offer three tiers: a free ad-supported option, rental/purchase titles, and a paid ad-free subscription, with initial content from Fremantle, Paramount and Bleecker Street. It will launch across the US, UK, Canada, and several European and Oceania markets, with plans to expand further.
The Traumpalast Leonberg cinema in Baden-Württemberg, Germany holds the Guinness World Record for largest movie screen by surface area, at 127 feet wide and 69 feet tall. But that title applies to IMAX's digital format, which uses a 1.90:1 aspect ratio and is criticized by purists as inferior to the taller, squarer 1.43:1 15/70mm film format that IMAX enthusiasts consider the true premium experience.
IMAX's signature camera noise stems from its 15/70 film format, which uses a 65mm negative running horizontally across 15 sprocket holes per frame instead of the standard five, producing images roughly three times larger than conventional film. At 24 frames per second, this means 360 sprocket holes—about 5.6 feet of film—pass through the camera every second, requiring a powerful motor and mechanical components that create audible rattling during shooting.
Following Marvel's stalled Blade reboot, star Mahershala Ali and director Bassam Tariq have teamed up on a new film called Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film follows a devout Muslim hitman who must raise three children, including a newborn, after his wife's death while his violent past resurfaces.
At TIFF, Laika crew members detailed technical advances behind their upcoming stop-motion film Wildwood, due in theaters next month. The studio credited digital frame-grabbers that let animators review recently shot frames for smoother movement, plus improved internal puppet mechanisms called breathers that simulate lifelike breathing in nearly all major characters.
A new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, titled You Can See Everything and helmed by Nathan Fielder, has drawn attention through a deliberately secretive promotional campaign. Rather than revealing plot details, the marketing leans on withholding information to spark curiosity among moviegoers. Early signs suggest the approach is successfully generating buzz ahead of release.
Apple TV released a trailer for The Last First: Winter K2, a documentary directed by Amir Bar-Lev arriving on the service October 2. The film centers on a dangerous 2021 winter expedition to summit K2, following climbers John Snorri Sigurjónsson and Ali and Sajid Sadpara as they compete alongside influencers, commercial clients and a Nepalese team.
A new four-hour documentary by Alex Gibney, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, includes interviews with Elon Musk's first wife Justine Musk, who says he referred to the mothers of his children as interchangeable "breeders." She also described incidents of gaslighting, including Musk misremembering who was holding their infant son when he died of SIDS, and recalled him calling himself "the alpha" at their wedding. Musk has publicly dismissed the film as a "hit piece."