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Gold DerbyCinemaOscars 2027: Where are the women screenwriters? Only two women currently rank among the screenplay favorites, and both are in the Best Adapted Screenplay race.

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Gold DerbyCinema‘American Idol’ sets Season 25 premiere date and a 2-hour anniversary special Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, and Lionel Richie are back on the judges’ panel as the show moves from Hollywood to Atlanta.

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Gold DerbyCinemaRocky meets Rocky as Sylvester Stallone praises Anthony Ippolito’s ‘I Play Rocky’ portrayal: ‘He really had to work hard’ Stallone and Ippolito shared the stage at a 50th anniversary screening of Rocky alongside Peter Farrelly and Bill Conti.

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Gold DerbyCinemaWhy Colm Toibin gave Andrew Haigh ‘absolutely no notes’ on adapting ‘A Long Winter’ The novelist and the filmmaker on the movie's 20-year journey to the screen, learning to trust each other, and why Fred Hechinger made the perfect leading man.

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Gold DerbyCinemaWatch KJ Apa channel Jimmy Stewart in an exclusive ‘Jimmy’ clip The new biopic of the Hollywood legend opens in theaters this weekend.

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Gold DerbyCinema‘Stranger Things’ prequel series ‘Other Worlds’ unleashes 1st look teaser The new Netflix prequel series turns the clock back on the strange things happening in the Stranger Things universe.

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Gold DerbyCinema‘Nuisance Bear’ directors on the polar bear story nature docs leave out: ‘The real nuisance is us’ Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman spent 10 years filming polar bears and the people of Churchill and Arviat for their Sundance-winning documentary, in theaters Dec. 4.

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Gold DerbyCinemaNew trailer for Brad Pitt’s ‘Cliff Booth’ misadventure offers longer look at David Fincher sequel The David Fincher-directed film catches up with the stuntman after the events of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood .

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Gold DerbyCinemaBest Supporting Actor Oscar odds: Paul Giamatti leads as Sam Rockwell chases a 2nd win Andrew Garfield makes the biggest jump, while Edward Norton slips out of the Top 5.

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Gold DerbyCinema‘Hell’s Kitchen’ recap: In ‘A Black Tie Affair,’ beefing chefs fall apart at the fish station during high-stakes gala dinner What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

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Gold DerbyCinema‘The Traitors: New Blood’ Episode 9 recap: Faithful choose their own fate in a game of pass the poisoned chalice Following Tomica's exit, Katie feels the pressure as Victor keeps the heat on Joe.

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Gold DerbyCinemaWill Slayyyter’s Grammy campaign be derailed by old racist tweets? Here’s what the odds say The Best New Artist hopeful is facing renewed criticism ahead of nominations, but it's not known whether voters were paying attention.

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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