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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.

Winner of the 2025 Goya Award for Best Documentary Short Film, Seeds From Kivu is not simply a documentary-it is an act of witness.

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.

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.

It's based around Christmas, but if it was also St. Patrick's Day, it would still work. But you couldn't do Memorial Day Home Alone. It doesn't work that way.

At Cornell Tech, Backslash artists collaborate with students and researchers to push both art and technology into unexpected territory. Liu, for example, partnered with information science student Soul Choi, M.S. '22 to experiment with artificial intelligence. Together, they trained models on activist narratives, factory workers' social media posts and feminist texts - exploring whether technology could safeguard these stories or, through its own biases and blind spots, risk erasing them.