Film Stories

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Film StoriesCinemaLetterboxd | New York Times submits $330m for service, in talks Letterboxd might soon be added to the New York Times asset register, with the asking price going up to $330m.

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Film StoriesCinemaPerfect Wedding Days trailer | A movie that came to life via LinkedIn Writer and director Gary Sinyor started telling his story on LinkedIn – and attracted the funding for Perfect Wedding Days! Here’s the trailer.

11.06

Film StoriesCinemaThe various attempts at a movie studio management computer game We take a look at the ongoing quest for a good movie studio management video game – is there a Football Manager for the movie business?

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Film StoriesCinemaPodcast | In conversation with Hannah Walters: Amazing Grace, acting, opportunity, knitwear, the Midlands motorway network Hannah Walters on Amazing Grace, producing, supporting independent cinema, producing Adolescence and a whole lot more.

11.06

Film StoriesCinemaEr, another Robin Hood film? The Lie Of Sherwood Forest starts filming Thomasin McKenzie and Antony Starr head up The Lie Of Sherwood Forest, a(nother) fresh take on the Robin Hood legend. The joy of a copyright-free legend, eh?

11.05

Film StoriesCinemaLord Of War 2 | Crime thriller trailer, starring Nicolas Cage, due out in 2027 Arms trade thriller sequel Lord Of War 2 is set for release in 2027, with Nicolas Cage back and Andrew Niccol again directing.

11.05

Film StoriesCinemaStar Wars | Adam Driver confirms Kylo Ren film dead, that it’s over for him Adam Driver has been chatting about Steven Soderbergh’s planned Star Wars: The Hunt For Ben Solo movie, that Disney axed two years into development.

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Film StoriesCinemaThe Hunt For Ben Solo | The Star Wars movie that never was It appeared to have just about everything going for it, yet Disney killed The Hunt For Ben Solo last year.

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Film StoriesCinemaResident Evil heads to 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD this December The 2026 movie of Resident Evil, from Zach Cregger, is heading to DVD, Blu-ray and 4K disc just after Christmas. Details here.

11.05

Film StoriesCinemaCinema chains turning their back on Netflix, and Cliff Booth film The Further Mis-adventures Of Cliff Booth is struggling to find cinema space, as Netflix and cinemas continue to stand at odds.

11.04

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo