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fromThe Verge
12 hours ago

Sony's latest gaming headset offers great open-back audio

The H6 Air is a lightweight, open-back gaming headset that offers a natural sound experience and comfort, but lacks noise isolation.
fromThedrum
1 day ago

The Mill and MPC Advertising unite under The Mill brand

The new consolidated studio will be led by Josh Mandel, previously CEO of The Mill, who will be taking on the new role of President of Advertising at Technicolor Creative Studios.
Marketing
Television
fromThe Atlantic
2 days ago

Seven Documentaries for Fans of Fiction

Documentaries can effectively tell engaging stories, appealing even to those typically averse to the genre.
Graphic design
fromdesignyoutrust.com
6 days ago

Breathtaking Cinematic Illustrations That Will Make You Rethink Sci-Fi Concept Art

Katerina Belikova is a renowned Ukrainian digital illustrator known for her work in science fiction and dark fantasy, particularly with the Star Wars franchise.
Music production
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Trailblazers, trumpets and the theramin: 10 soundtracks that changed the way we listen to movies

The evolution of film music transitioned from live accompaniment to synchronized soundtracks, shaping the cinematic experience significantly.
Independent films
fromThe Independent
4 days ago

Steven Spielberg shares huge admission about Christopher Nolan film Interstellar

Interstellar was originally intended to be directed by Steven Spielberg before Christopher Nolan took over the project.
#soundbar
fromEngadget
4 days ago
Gadgets

Sony Bravia Theater Bar 5 review: A basic TV sound booster

The Sony Bravia Theater Bar 5 offers excellent sound quality and bass performance at an entry-level price, making it suitable for smaller spaces.
fromZDNET
2 months ago
Gadgets

I finally found a room-filling soundbar that makes a subwoofer unnecessary for me

The Bluesound Pulse Cinema soundbar delivers surprising room-filling sound and strong bass despite lacking a built-in subwoofer.
Gadgets
fromEngadget
4 days ago

Sony Bravia Theater Bar 5 review: A basic TV sound booster

The Sony Bravia Theater Bar 5 offers excellent sound quality and bass performance at an entry-level price, making it suitable for smaller spaces.
fromZDNET
2 months ago
Gadgets

I finally found a room-filling soundbar that makes a subwoofer unnecessary for me

fromEsquire
1 week ago

The Best Action Movies of 2026 (So Far)

In the new film, he plays a hit man named Mike who is attempting to leave the business when he's framed for murder. He's sleeping with loan shark Nick's wife Alice, so Nick tricks him into pulling off one last job.
Television
Film
fromVulture
3 weeks ago

How Many Cinephiles Does It Take to Win a Soccer Match?

The first-ever Cinema Showdown in NYC combined soccer with film promotion, attracting cinephiles and fans for a unique event featuring custom jerseys.
#academy-awards
Television
fromZDNET
2 weeks ago

Sony's new theater system lets you upgrade your TV setup gradually - how it works

Sony introduces seven new Bravia home theater products, including a TV, soundbars, subwoofers, and rear speakers, with modular compatibility.
#soundbars
fromWIRED
3 weeks ago
Gadgets

I Tested the Top Premium Soundbars To Find The Best

Premium soundbars deliver superior audio quality and immersive experiences, making them a worthwhile investment over traditional A/V systems.
fromZDNET
2 months ago
Gadgets

How I upgraded my soundbar audio quality for free - and 4 other methods to give it a boost

Proper soundbar placement, room acoustic treatment, and calibration significantly improve TV audio quality beyond built-in speakers.
Gadgets
fromWIRED
3 weeks ago

I Tested the Top Premium Soundbars To Find The Best

Premium soundbars deliver superior audio quality and immersive experiences, making them a worthwhile investment over traditional A/V systems.
fromZDNET
2 months ago
Gadgets

How I upgraded my soundbar audio quality for free - and 4 other methods to give it a boost

Film
fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago

Sound takes center stage: Inside the company that produces award-winning sounds for movies

Foley artists create sound effects for films, contributing approximately 50% of a movie's audio and bringing scenes to life through detailed sound textures and movements.
Gadgets
fromEngadget
3 weeks ago

LG Sound Suite review: Dolby Atmos FlexConnect in a powerful package

LG's Sound Suite offers customizable speaker placement with Dolby Atmos FlexConnect technology, enhancing home theater experiences for users with compatible LG devices.
Berlin music
fromLos Angeles Times
1 month ago

One stress-loving composer, 125 nominees: What it takes to score the Oscars

Chris Walden, Hamburg-born composer and lead music arranger for the Academy Awards for seven years, moved to Los Angeles after realizing Hollywood-style music was unwanted in Germany, eventually becoming the Oscars' primary musical architect.
Film
fromThedrum
4 weeks ago

S4M drives users to cinemas for Sony's latest release

Sony Pictures' mobile campaign for The Dark Tower reached 2 million Singapore users, achieving 71,000 trailer completions and 24,000 ticket bookings through location-based targeting and seamless booking integration.
fromLos Angeles Times
9 years ago

'Wolverine' composer Marco Beltrami goes traditional in Pacific Palisades

Built in 2000, the two-story house on a corner lot has plenty of curb appeal. A black-hued gable roof creates visual contrast against crisp white siding and shutters. A white picket fence wraps around the front of the property.
LA real estate
Vue
fromHackernoon
1 month ago

SkyReels-V4 Fixes the Most Uncanny Part of AI Video: Bad Sound Sync | HackerNoon

SkyReels-V4 integrates video and audio generation into a unified multi-modal model, addressing the historical separation of these capabilities in AI systems.
Gadgets
fromWIRED
3 weeks ago

This Compact Bose Soundbar Is $80 Off

Bose Smart Soundbar offers compact design, Dolby Atmos support, and excellent audio quality, making it ideal for small spaces and modern entertainment needs.
Film
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Hollywood Is Dead: We Must Fight to Save the True Magic

Technological advancement in filmmaking has eliminated scarcity and bottlenecks that once created awe, diminishing the magic of cinema through abundance rather than enhancing it.
fromConsequence
1 month ago

Damon Albarn Confirms He's Scoring Luca Guadagnino's OpenAI Movie

Music and art should not be easy. Once it becomes easy, it's meaningless. In a way, it's the things you don't see or hear that make it art. You know what I mean, in a way. It's a weird intuition that the listener has that picks up on the journey that the artist has been through to make that particular thing with the tone of the voice, etc. You can't replace that.
Music production
Miscellaneous
fromAnOther
1 month ago

Films to See This March

The Love That Remains explores middle age through a year in separated parents' lives, balancing intimate domestic moments with Iceland's grand landscape.
Film
fromInverse
1 month ago

Pump Up The Volume! The Rise OF Virtual Production - Hollywood's Most Confusing Miracle

Virtual production technology evolved from 1930s rear projection to modern LED walls, revolutionizing how filmmakers create backgrounds while keeping actors stationary on set.
Berlin music
fromVulture
1 month ago

John Williams, Without Visuals

At 94, John Williams composed his first piano concerto for Emanuel Ax, drawing inspiration from jazz pianists Art Tatum, Bill Evans, and Oscar Peterson while maintaining his own compositional voice.
Film
fromEntrepreneur
1 month ago

This Cult Filmmaker Learned Something About Audiences Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know'Make Them Feel Something'

Kevin Smith built a personal brand by connecting directly with fans, which created lasting career opportunities beyond individual film projects in an unpredictable industry.
#hans-zimmer
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 month ago

AI "Filmmaker" Gets Funding, Begs For Ideas On What to Actually Make

Crowdsourcing film ideas for an AI-produced movie elicited ridicule and highlighted concerns that AI tools cannot substitute for genuine creative vision.
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

Stock music you need for UI, social media, and games

In recent years, multimedia content has firmly established itself online, fueled by the development of high-speed Internet technologies as well as the growing availability of tools for creating and editing video. The global lockdowns also contributed to this process by forcing people to look for similar alternatives on the web. If integrating video into your communications sounds like an overwhelming investment, start leveraging your products with music and audio that are often underestimated by marketers.
Social media marketing
fromDigiday
2 months ago

Inside Goalhanger's shift from podcast producer to screen studio

On YouTube, The Rest is History podcast draws roughly around 500,000 viewers, who stick around for an average of about 48 minutes. That's close to the length of a traditional hour-long show and even longer than the podcast's strong audio average of around 40 minutes.. For the production team, seeing that level of engagement, especially on TV screens, was a turning point. People weren't just listening along to podcasts. They're settling in to watch now too.
Media industry
Marketing tech
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

DCM and Yummi unveil cinime app connecting the big screen with the little screen

DCM and Yummi launched cinime, a mobile app using image recognition and audio watermarking to unlock brand and film-related content for cinemagoers.
Music
fromThepythoncodingstack
2 months ago

The Orchestra Conductor, The Senior Programmer, and AI * [Club]

Orchestra conductors provide coordination and interpretation beyond written scores, paralleling how oversight shapes programming and AI despite surface-level expertise.
Film
fromEsquire
1 month ago

How Ludwig Goransson's Scores Became the Main Character

Ludwig Göransson's childhood exposure to his father's musical diversity—from blues to Metallica—shaped his approach to film composition, blending genre-defying styles across award-winning scores.
Television
fromConsequence
2 months ago

Hans Zimmer and Bleeding Fingers to Score HBO's Harry Potter Series

Hans Zimmer, Kara Talve, and AnĹľe Rozman will create a new score for HBO's Harry Potter series, distinct from John Williams's film music.
fromZDNET
2 months ago

Your LG TV is getting a big audio upgrade for free - these OLED models included

LG released its modular home theater system at CES 2026, complete with the H7 soundbar, M5 and M7 wireless speakers, and W7 subwoofer. This system is the first to feature Dolby Atmos FlexConnect, a Dolby technology that promises to deliver the Atmos experience, regardless of your speaker placement. Also: LG's new Dolby Atmos system promises immersive sound no matter where your speakers are
Television
Gadgets
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Samsung's Best Dolby Atmos Soundbar Has Barely Changed for Generations. That Means Insane Deals

Samsung's HW-Q990 series reached near-peak performance; successive models deliver only incremental improvements while prices vary widely.
Gadgets
fromZDNET
1 month ago

This soundbar blew me away with its surround sound, and it's discounted for Presidents' Day

Vizio’s 33-inch soundbar bundle with wireless subwoofer and two surround speakers delivers near high-end audio with Dolby Atmos/DTS:X and EQ personalization, now under $200.
Film
fromConde Nast Traveler
2 months ago

Where Was 'The History of Sound' Filmed?

A music-driven love story follows Lionel and David across global locations, exploring memory, grief, and the practical filmmaking challenges of location and tax incentives.
#home-theater
fromOpen Culture
2 months ago

How the "Netflix Movie" Turns Cinema into "Visual Muzak"

A quarter-century later, it's safe to say that those days have come to an end. Not only does the streaming-only Netflix of the twenty-twenties no longer transmit movies on DVD through the mail (a service its younger users have trouble even imagining), it ranks approximately nowhere as a preferred cinephile destination. That has to do with a selection much diminished since the DVD days
Film
Film
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Real Secret to a Filmmaker's Success

Coppola, Lucas, and Spielberg in the 1970s combined artistic daring with commercial ambition, reshaping Hollywood through auteurism and blockbuster filmmaking.
#sonos
fromZDNET
2 months ago
Gadgets

Own a Sonos soundbar? I made 3 easy adjustments to instantly improve the audio quality

fromZDNET
2 months ago
Gadgets

Sonos won't tell you this, but these 3 free tweaks dramatically improve its soundbars

fromZDNET
2 months ago
Gadgets

Own a Sonos soundbar? I made 3 easy adjustments to instantly improve the audio quality

fromZDNET
2 months ago
Gadgets

Sonos won't tell you this, but these 3 free tweaks dramatically improve its soundbars

Film
fromVulture
2 months ago

Paul Thomas Anderson Requests That Melania Remove Phantom Thread Score

Paul Thomas Anderson and Jonny Greenwood requested removal of Phantom Thread music from the Melania documentary due to Universal's alleged breach of Greenwood's composer agreement.
Gadgets
fromInsideHook
2 months ago

This Splurge Soundbar Is Worth Every Penny

The Devialet Dione is a high-end, design-forward Dolby Atmos soundbar with powerful drivers and built-in subwoofers that justify its premium price.
Film
fromFast Company
2 months ago

I test-drove the new ScreenX movie format. Here's what I thought of it

ScreenX expands movie visuals by projecting footage onto side walls for a 270-degree viewing experience and is rapidly expanding across theater chains.
Film
fromJezebel
2 months ago

Paul Thomas Anderson and Jonny Greenwood want Phantom Thread track removed from Melania

Jonny Greenwood's Phantom Thread score was used without his consultation in the Melania documentary, and Anderson and Greenwood have asked for its removal.
Film
fromInverse
2 months ago

The Best Beds On The Big Screen (And How To Get Them!

Iconic movie beds reveal character, era, and design, serving as vital set pieces that communicate personality, technology, and cultural aesthetics.
fromRoger Ebert
2 months ago

The 17 Best Movies About Radio, Ranked | Features | Roger Ebert

Even in an era of CGI and AI, nothing is more vivid than the intimacy and imagination of radio or more direct than the connection radio has with listeners. I remember when the legendary Stan Freberg drained Lake Michigan and filled it with hot chocolate, a 700-foot mountain of whipped cream, and a 10-ton maraschino cherry. We didn't have to see it. We heard it on the radio. It was Freberg's demonstration of what radio can do better than television.
Film
fromeLearning Industry
1 month ago

How To Remove Background Noise From Video: Best Practices For Professional Content

When professionals talk about how to remove background noise from video, they are really talking about improving the audio track of a video so the speaker's voice is clearer, more consistent, and easier to understand. Background noise refers to any unwanted sound that competes with the main voice, like air conditioning hum, office chatter, keyboard typing, traffic, or the low hiss created by recording equipment and compression. In video production, background noise removal is about reducing distractions so the listener can focus on the message.
Film
Film
fromIndieWrap - Independent Film Magazine
2 months ago

A Conversation with Producer Desmond Loh - IndieWrap

Desmond Qi Hong Loh is a Los Angeles-based producer creating award-winning short films, high-performing vertical dramas and global digital media across formats, cultures and platforms.
Film
fromConsequence
2 months ago

Steven Spielberg Achieves EGOT Status with Grammy Win for Music by John Williams

Steven Spielberg achieved EGOT status after winning a Best Music Film Grammy for Music by John Williams.
Film
fromAnOther
2 months ago

Paul Mescal on The History of Sound, a Tender Romantic Drama

A tender love between Lionel and David unfolds through early-20th-century folk-song collecting, expressing intimacy beyond repression through shared music and field recordings.
fromBrooklynVegan
2 months ago

Barry Adamson (Magazine, The Bad Seeds) tells us about his five favorite film scores of all time

His first solo single was a cover of Elmer Bernstein's theme from The Man with the Golden Arm, and his debut solo album, Moss Side Story, was a soundtrack to a nonexistent film noir. He's gone on to compose scores for actual soundtracks, like new documentary SCALA!!!, which is about London's infamous arthouse cinema from the '70s and '80s where Adamson spent a lot of time.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Top of the props: meet the unsung heroes behind the memorable objects in your favourite films

It's nice that you are asking about props, because they're not really acknowledged, says Jode Mann, a TV prop master in Los Angeles. When Mann worked on the children's comedy show Pee-wee's Playhouse in the 1980s, she got a call from its star, Paul Reubens, who said he was nominating her for an Emmy. It was only after Mann told her mother and promised to thank her if she won that Reubens called back to say he couldn't nominate her because there's no category for you.
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Film
fromThe Hollywood Reporter
2 months ago

Film Academy Creates Academy Studios to Oversee Digital Output, Will Be Led by Jennifer Davidson

The Academy launches Academy Studios to professionalize and expand digital content and promotes Jennifer Davidson to chief marketing, communications and content officer to lead it.
Film
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Hollywood Is Lying to Everyone About How Much AI They're Using, Says Consummate Hollywood Insider

Hollywood studios are using AI more widely across writing and production than they publicly acknowledge.
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