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Ten years ago, Star Warsstill felt like magic. Some people remember where they were for the Moon landing; I remember where I was when the first teaser for The Force Awakens launched online (at an old girlfriend's house after Black Friday brunch). Every frame was scrutinized: the cross-guarded saber, X-Wings roaring planetside, BB-8's anxious roll. The plot, shrouded in another J.J. Abrams mystery, was teased in marketing and merch, where posters and action figures of Kylo Ren doubled as conduits of hype and intrigue.
After a varied career in which he has played a psychopath, a romcom heart-throb, an intergalactic warlord and a plucky newspaper editor among others, Domhnall Gleeson has won his first Hollywood award. The US-Ireland Alliance announced that Gleeson will receive the Oscar Wilde award at the event's 20th anniversary in Los Angeles in March in the run-up to the Oscars. It honours a body of work rather than a particular performance.
The Lawrence Hall of Science's planetarium is playing Traditions of the Winter Sun, a short film about Ohlone and other cultures' traditions surrounding the cosmos, from now to Feb. 27. Photo credit: Lawrence Hall of Science Learn about Ohlone and other cultural traditions for the sun, moon, planets and stars in the 30-minute planetarium show, Traditions in the Winter Sky. Show runs from now to Feb. 27 at the Lawrence Hall of Science. $5 plus admission fee
These past couple of weeks have been pretty exciting for all of us! Prepping and planning for Christmas and also watching Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery after it dropped last week-that's what I've been doing. I'm not sure about everyone else, but I've been pretty obsessed with Josh O'Connor ever since Challengers, and after watching this film, my obsession has only peaked.
"It's been quite a remarkable event in my life," says linguist Paul Frommer, recalling his first encounter with James Cameron. Searching for someone to develop a constructed language for a science-fiction film, the renowned director had sent an email to the linguistics department of the University of Southern California. In his application for the job, Frommer convincingly expressed his enthusiasm for the challenge.
Ryan Coogler's bluesy vampire thriller "Sinners," the big screen musical "Wicked: For Good" and the Netflix phenomenon "KPop Demon Hunters" are all a step closer to an Oscar nomination. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released shortlists for 12 categories Tuesday, including for best song, score, international and documentary film, cinematography and this year's new prize, casting.
Someone needs to fix a pipe at Marvel, because just a couple of days after the first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday leaked onto the internet, Spider-Man: Brand New Day 's is out in the wild. After a fashion-it is the most astonishingly poor quality. It's so difficult to see, in fact, that it likely would have been dismissed as a fake, had Marvel and Sony not issued copyright strikes against every upload and wiped it from the internet.
Critics didn't know what to do with it, treating it less like the final statement of a master filmmaker and more like a bootlegged work print - understandable, given that Kubrick, who typically fussed over his movies until the last possible second, had died that March, just days after delivering a semi-finished cut to Warner Bros. The studio and his estate made the remaining tweaks.
Whitney Leavitt is trading MomTok for MovieTok. She's currently filming a new Christmas romcom movie, All For Love, for Ninth House Productions. The Mormon Wives star is playing Winona, a podcaster trying to find love online, reports. She meets her love interest, Luke (Jesse Kove), in person, who's an event space owner and renovator who fixes up a venue for her grandmother.
Amazon has released the first trailer for next year's documentary on Melania Trump. The film will follow the first lady in the 20 days before the 2025 inauguration and has unprecedented access with promises of exclusive footage capturing critical meetings, private conversations, and never-before-seen environments. Witness history in the making is the tagline. It's also a comeback vehicle for disgraced director Brett Ratner, who was accused of sexual misconduct by a number of women back in 2017.
Zoë Schiffer: Welcome to WIRED's Uncanny Valley. I'm Zoë Schiffer, WIRED's Director of Business and Industry. Today on the show, we want to share with you one of the best conversations that happened during our big interview event in San Francisco last week. Our senior culture editor, Manisha Krishnan sat down with Jon Chu, the director of Wicked, to discuss what made the film franchise such a success. Even if you're not a fan of musicals, it's a fascinating conversation about the power of viral marketing and how forward-looking filmmakers like Chu are trying to navigate the AI era without compromising their creative vision and their execution.
Today, WBD's board announced that it has unanimously decided that its shareholders would be much better off rejecting Paramount Skydance and accepting Netflix's bid to buy the company's studio production and streaming arms. The news comes weeks after WBD first said that it was ready to take Netflix up on its $82.7 billion acquisition offer, and days after Paramount tried to keep the bidding war going by upping its offer to $108 billion
