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Here’s what it would take to build an indie film super-streamer and how filmmakers can find their perfect audience, according to Keri Putnam, Brian Newman, and Samuel Harowitz. 🔗 Watch the full #FutureOfFilmmaking conversation: https://trib.al/605vKFi

#IndieWireHonors will also toast Luca Guadagnino, Justin Kuritzkes, Jennifer Lopez, Amy Pascal, Angela Patton, Natalie Rae, RaMell Ross, Chris Sanders, and Adam Stockhausen.

Disney CEO Bob Iger messed up during his company’s fiscal Q4 earnings conference call. https://lnkd.in/ehwrcB9J

This is how independent filmmakers are using AI. “It’s not this idea of replacing, it’s this idea of augmenting us as filmmakers and giving us a superpower to really show our vision,” says a filmmaker panelist at IndieWire's #FutureOfFilmmaking summit. 🔗 Watch the full conversation: https://trib.al/yzaMwya #indiewire #indie #artificialintelligence #ai #filmmaking

The EnergaCamerimage International Cinematography Film Festival, led by president Cate Blanchett, has made an official statement after festival director Marek Żydowicz’s sexist comments went viral: https://trib.al/eTeVHtr

“Euphoria” Season 3 is still moving forward, HBO‘s CEO Casey Bloys has confirmed. See what he had to say: https://trib.al/dDlrJaH

Last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom came to Los Angeles and announced a long overdue change to the state’s tax credit program for film and TV production. 🎬 The state would allocate $750 million of tax dollars — up from $325 million — to film productions in an effort to keep filming in California. At IndieWire's #FutureOfFilmmaking, panelists share how this new proposal will affect Hollywood filmmakers and what needs to be done for this to be a success. 🔗 Watch the full conversation: https://trib.al/E6vyq8A #losangeles #filmindustry #hollywood #entertainment

For the second time in two weeks, a previous #1 VOD release, still at premium price, returned to #1 after a week in a lower position. “The Wild Robot” (NBCUniversal), still #4 in theaters this weekend parallel to home availability, repeats the move “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (Warner Bros. Discovery) managed last week. 📈 The rise comes for two reasons. First, a lack of competitive new releases, including disinterest in “Joker: Folie à Deux” (WBD). Second is likely its rental price reduction from an initial premium at $24.99 to the more standard $19.99 PVOD cost. 🔗 Read the full #VOD report.

The brightest spots in #GladiatorII lie in the film’s comedic moments. Apart from that, though, there’s so little to hold onto in the film other than the crushing awareness that everyone is retreading old territory. Read our full review: https://lnkd.in/eC3WQ2jp

Movie Marketing 101 🎬 Here’s how Cineverse's Executive Director of Acquisitions Brandon Hill and Chief Content Officer Yolanda Macias turned #Terrifier3 into a viral horror hit. Watch the full conversation: https://trib.al/C6bF3lk #FutureOfFilmmaking #moviemarketing #entertainmentindustry